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Central Coast Ukulele Festival Sept 12-14 2025

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Only two weeks to go to the happiest festival around The Central Coast Ukulele Festival. Come and see what all the fuss is about. with over 51 bands and 400 performers it is bigger than Ben Hur.

CCUF 2025 FINAL Program 1 copyDownload
CCUF 2025 FINAL Program 1 copyDownload

There is something for everyone. Merchandise, rock, jazz, foreign languages, fun, folk, indie, rock, rhythm and blues, country, old songs, new songs, creative, colourful and entertaining!

With the Thin White Ukes with their brilliant harmonies and Bowie style will captivate you. Come along to their workshops and learn a few tricks on your ukulele.

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Tickets on sale now only $15 or at the door

Try Booking for CCUF 2025

https://www.trybooking.com/CZORH

Live music at its best by the best

Dinner show tickets available by calling the Diggers

 on (02) 4332 3399

3 course meal plus great entertainment.

Johnny Devilseed and Old Man Rubes

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The very Talented Denise Hanlon with Jeremy Brennan

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Plus we have some sensation uke bands from around the country

Cameron Murray

With the Mirrabooka Band, Lisa Cernicchi, Ukulele Dave and more…

Join us for an evening of first class entertainment and music. Some of these acts will NOT be appearing at our festival over the weekend only exclusive to Friday night. Please join us and celebrate the opening of our festival.

Please find attached Final Program

and Workshops available.

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Prices listed for workshops on the program.

Doors open at the Diggers on Friday 4.00pm for early show entertainment. Come in and enjoy a refreshment and the view of beautiful Tuggerah lakes. Show starts at 5pm!

Doors open on Saturday at 10am and runs until late Saturday night. All workshop tickets may be purchased at our merchandise stall either on Friday evening or from Saturday.

Workshops start at the “Clam Hall” at 10.30am and again on Sunday at 10.30m (in Allambie room)

Sunday doors open at 10am.

Please join us with “One Song Sing” on Sunday afternoon, a terrific pop up choir, run by The Sum of the Parts.

The Song we shall be singing is Pompeii by Bastille, more info on this soon.

We have our Photographer – James Begg available all weekend.

Fantastic Raffles

Money Tree – winner takes all

Merchandise available 

Raffles Prizes

1 x Leho Tenor resonator ukulele, case, stand, strap , tuner

1 x Makala Tenor Ukulele with Case

1 x Riptide concert ukulele with case

1 x Enya soprano round special edition ukulele with case

1 x Lanaki concert with original artwork by indigenous artist Kylie Cassidy

1 x Soprano ukulele with original artwork by indigenous Jodie Taylor

1 x Beautiful artwork by local Central Coast Artist

And more…

We are running two stages at the Diggers Club.

stage 1 – Lounge

stage 2 – Allambie room

The third stage is for workshops at “the Clam” a white building diagonally across the road from the Diggers. You can’t miss it. We will have volunteers to help direct you. It’s a building that looks like a Clam (no kidding)  The venue is actually at the hall behind. They both are beautiful rooms with a garden which has outdoor seating that you are welcome to use, tune, jam or take a break in the sunshine (hopefully) from the amazing lineup of artists we have ready to entertain you. There is parking if you need to drive, however, it’s an easy 1 minute walk from the front door of the Diggers.

We will rock into the night with Mirrabooka Band, Lindy and the Losse units, West and young and The Thin White Ukes..

with over 400 performers you’ll just have to come and see

support live music

There is an open mic on Sunday and our merchandise desk will have the performers list.

We look forward to another great Central Coast Festival and thank you for your music and support.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Cheers

Liz

Central Coast Ukulele Festival 12th – 14th September 2025

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Try Booking for CCUF 2025

https://www.trybooking.com/CZORH

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Hello, with only 5 weeks to go we are excited to bring to you and our community a fun filled and inclusive festival for all. You don’t have to play ukulele to enjoy this festival. We will have something for everyone.

The award-winning Diggers at the Entrance with its breathtaking views of Tuggerah Lakes has kindly open its doors to the Central Coast Ukulele festival with open arms.

Only minutes from The Entrance town centre and the beautiful Lakes.

There is plenty of parking

Enjoy hearty delicious food at their restaurant, plenty of bar service with 3 bars, games rooms, indoor play centre for the kids and sports bar for the adults, and a happy fulfilled fantastic ukulele festival.

You will enjoy the 51 groups from around Australia performing all genres of music for you to enjoy, sing along and tap your toes or dance away your troubles.

A Ukulele Festival is a happy festival event that brings joy to all who come. Its worldwide and loved by folk around the world.

We have 2 main stages

workshops

Raffles – we have some beautiful ukulele in our raffles kindly supported by Music Centre Gosford and Jacks Music Newcastle.

There will be merchandise tables, raffles (you may win a ukulele)

Dinner Show Friday night

Music and workshops all day Saturday

Dance and rock on Saturday night with our cool acts

and you are invited to sing in our Pop Up Choir on Sunday.

It will be spectacular.

Tickets are just $15 for a weekend of everything. Try Booking for CCUF 2025

https://www.trybooking.com/CZORH

Our Dinner Show Friday night is a 3 course meal with a generous amount of Entertainment.

Tickets are purchased at the Diggers please call to book a table on

(02)4332 3399 in the beautiful Pavillion room overlooking Tuggerah Lakes

Friday night 12th September.

Our Fine performers are:

Rhymer from Ryde:

Dave Parker:

Johnny Devilseed and Old man Rubes:

Mirrabooka Band: live and local with special guests Jeremy Brennan and Lisa Cernicchi.

Denise Hanlon is an award-winning singer, a professional comedienne and an experienced Emcee. The great thing is – she can do all 3 at once!

Accompanied by Jeremy Brennan: Pianist, Songsmith and Live Entertainment Specialist.

This is an act not to miss!

The Thin White Ukes: a sensational Glam rock pop group from Melbourne.

The fun does not stop there and will continue from Saturday 10am to Saturday night 10pm and resume again on Sunday from 10am – 5pm.

There will be educational workshops: Djembe, Singing techniques, how to write a hit song, Play ukulele, learn bass techniques, stage skills and more.

We are excited to have One Song Sing as our festival finale.

Here is the chance for everybody to get involved including friends and family. No need to play just use your voice.

One Song Sing is brought to you by The Sum of the Parts (music).

Come join our pop up choir- no auditions required; perhaps a bit of shower singing! In just over an hour we teach a popular song broken down into three parts that sound great together. Whether you sing low, high or somewhere in between you will find a part that you can sing along with plenty of other people. There is safety in numbers and a real joy when singing with a crowd in harmony. 

Let make this a totally memorial moment.

We would love to see you at the Central Coast Ukulele Festival and see what all the fuss is about:

Our groups and collectives have worked hard all year to bring to you this fabulous weekend of LIVE music and entertainment

Our Program attached along with workshop information.

For more information contact us on

info@centralcoastukuleleclub.com  or Liz on 0412837008

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CCUF 2025 FINAL Program 1Download
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CCUF Workshops Sunday CCUF 25Download

Cheers

Liz

Central Coast Ukulele Club

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June 26, 2023

Hello and a huge Aloha to all. 

I can’t believe how fast this year has flown past.

My apologies for not getting back to most of you regarding our festival this year. Yes, we are keen, yes, we have the talent, the team and the goods to get us going however, finding a venue here on the coast at this stage for such a large crowd has proved very hard.

We are working on it and have our ukulele plucking fingers in a few pies and places and it seems at this stage we will have to postpone our festival until next year around the end of March before school holidays.

We haven’t forgotten you and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the lovely emails and words of encouragement we have been getting.

Our last ukulele festival was sensational, even epic! Each great act put on such a brilliant showcase and with that so many visitors came to see. It seems we have just grown too big for our regular venues especially after the COVID period, as many places prefer not to have such a big audience.

We may take the risk again and go back to the Entrance an keep our fingers cross for brilliant weather.

I know some will be disappointed at this decision and I will say this, it will be back bigger and better. Each group I have seen play at other festival recently have been amazing. The talent is sensational, and I am biting at the bit to showcase it all again.

Stand by and watch this space.

Thank you for reaching out and I hope to see you all soon.

Cheers

Liz 

Happy New Year

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Hello wonderful ukulele lovers.

Just a short note to let you know our classes and meetings are back on track and more news coming this way soon.

We begin with….

Monday 9th January

Lake Munmorah – Colongra Bay Hall

10.30am-12.30pm

Beginners class will commence on Monday 23rd from 9.30am-10.30am

Tuesday 10th January

Woy Woy CWA Hall

6pm-8pm

Thursday 12th January

Lions Club Hall

10am-12pm

(Djembe classes starting 23 January.

Hope to see you soon

For all enquiries call 0412837008

Have a great day Liz

Central Coast Ukulele Festival May 13,14 and 15 Wangi Wangi RSL

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Aloha!

We are excited and ready for you! Only 5 weeks to go for the Central Coast Ukulele Festival (CCUF) 2022. A celebration of our 10th festival.

Over 300 performers and 50 acts will bring you a happy event only the ukulele can do. The program is ready and the workshop are set to intrigue, entertain, and educate.  Our ukulele collectives come from far and wide and are ready to entertain you.

We have merchants, Luthiers, Markets, BBQ’s, Barista truck, Fabulous food and service from Wangi Wangi RSL, the club with a view!

Friday 13th starts at 3pm with Welcome to Country and then a super jam and BBQ for those wishing to start early in the beer garden overlooking the beautiful lake as we watch the sun set over Lake Macquarie we will begin our Showcase.

Friday night we Showcase of “The Ladies Of Uke”  glamorous evening with a beautiful line up of Ladies to perform their songs for you. The restaurant will be open and dishing up some yummy food.

Saturday, 14 starts at 8.30am with the Bush Poets breakfast and BBQ serving up Bacon and eggs or sausage and eggs on rolls. The Barista truck will be ready for your coffee needs and an entire day of Entertainment awaits you.

Our workshops start at 9am at the Sailing Club right next to the RSL club.

Saturday night we will showcase the “Ladies of Rock”, the ever impeccable Cameron Murray and the unique style of Johnny Devilseed and Old Man Rubes.

Sunday 15th we invite you to breakfast at 8.30am with a Poets Breakfast, Coffee, and a Hula workshop to get those hips moving, and another full day of great entertainment and workshops.

So, tune up and get ready for a brilliant happy weekend!

The Central Coast Ukulele Festival is a free event and we would like to thank Wangi Wangi RSL for making this happen and all our artists who are our sponsors plus our corporate sponsors who we will name shortly.

We will be covid safe and we will follow all guidelines set out by NSW Health.

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See you soon

cheers

Liz

What’s new

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What on and coming up for the Central Coast Ukulele Club

Friday 21st November – Sunday 23rd November 2014

we are heading north west to The Upper Hunter Valley and camping out at Denman. With mountains, wineries and culinary delights, the Upper Hunter and the good life we are having a “ukulele Woodstock”. So get out your hippie clothes, candles, incense, beautiful songs from the 60’s and 70’s and join us.  Friday night karaoke ukulele, Saturday BBQ’s, Yoga, drum circle, Saturday night we are learning square dancing, a fabulous concert from Mirrabooka and Ohana and then a “Woodstock” trivia night. Sunday BBQ and then enjoy the day at the wineries.

 

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Sunday 30th November 2014 – The Entrance Hotel from 3-7pm

Come and join us in our open Mic/open uke afternoon.

Bring along your ukuleles and sing and strum with us as we lead you through some great songs. If you are a bit of a performer try your hand at our open mic, ukulele preferred but guitar welcome. Free entry, Raffles, prizes, all family friendly.

Thursday 11th December 2014

Christmas Party with Probus 1.30-2.30

Lake Munmorah Bowling Club, Lake Munmorah

 

Sunday 14th December 2014

Gosford/Mt Penang Christmas by candleight 4-9pm

Mt Penang Gardens, Near Kariong.

Monday 15th December 2014

Shelly Beach Golf Club

Probus Christmas Party 2-3pm

 

Saturday 20th December 2014

Morisset Christmas Spectacular 4-9pm

Morisset Showground more information to come.

Sunday 21st December 2014

The Sails Stage at The Entrance from 11-3pm

From 3pm -8pm The Central Coast Christmas Party.

Christmas songs, open  uke, prizes, Raffles and much more

 

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR – see you in 2015

 

Updates and news

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Hello everyone! mmmmm spring feels likes it’s in the air!

OPEN UKULELE NIGHT JACKS BAR ERINA FREE ENTRY AUGUST 30th 2012. Everyone welcome.

The last open ukulele night was so much fun. The next open ukulele night is August 30th at
Jacks Bar Erina from 6-10pm.
Raffles and a set list competition will be in place for the evening. Jane from Macron Music Tuggerah making us a ukulele cake to celebrate all birthdays in August and for those who we missed out on. Bring along your partners, family and friends, kids welcome. Share your talent with us on the night. We’re hoping the ‘4 strings’ will make another appearance, the ‘Ukcandoit’s’, the ‘Dementia group’, ‘Adam and friends’ , ‘djembe drum’ and our sing and play along all together sessions. The ‘Bar Boys’ from Jacks will be singing ‘I wanna Be Like You’ so practise that song so they can sing along to us. Please let me know if you have a song or three you would like to perform on the night so we can slot you in. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience performing, no pressure, surrounded by friends, or just come on down and have a brilliant night. We could also use this as a rehearsal for up coming festivals.

Hope you are all recovering from all sicknesses and operations and are back on track.
I tell you now this is the first time I can breathe in about 3 weeks!!
Thank you for all your birthday wishes and condolences.. such a bitter sweet time of late.

Ok so here’s what’s been happening and what’s coming up next.

Beginners workshop was successful – what a lovely group of folk.. next beginners workshop Saturday 8th September from 11-1pm

Rob’s djembe class was terrific, fantastic group of lovely folk and didn’t they play well! I was very impressed.

The next Rob’s djember class is Saturday September 1st.
the class will be from 11-1pm
( first day of spring and a day before fathers day – perhaps an idea for fathers day?)

Both beginners and class and next djembe class will be at Niagara Park Rehearsal Room, Washington Ave, Niagara park. We will be looking at Erina soon if that is an easy for people to access.

Our Dementia unit are looking for volunteers please email me and I will pass on to Heather if interested.
Gary and a small group are performing at Camp Breakaway on Wednesday 23rd, please let me know if you are interested.

September 15th – Kincumber festival

September 16th – BUG’s (Berows and Hornsby ukulele group celebrating their 1st birthday) we have been asked to perform as top billing for the afternoon – Berowra Tavern 3-6, Berowra.

September 23rd – Illawarra Strum Festival – The bus is booked – we will be taking final numbers this week so please let us know if you’re on the bus!!! – should be a fun day.

October 28 – Newcastle ukulele Festival
October 28 – Woytopia Festival YEP THE SAME DAY

October, November – recording our second album and Christmas songs

December 9th – Central Coast Christmas Spectacular in front of a huge crowd. Whoo hoo.

So let’s start strumming away and dust off those vocal chords and we’ll be on fire real soon!!

Our Club T-Shirts have been ordered and there is a delay with the medium size as they were out of stock, should not be too long now.

Jackets look good and are very nice quality. We’ll be taking orders for them this week too.

love to you all
Liz x

Ukulele Festival, May 26 2012 The Entrance Central Coast

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Exciting news
The Central Coast will be presenting our very first Ukulele Festival at The Entrance. May 26th 2012
Clubs from far and wide are invited to join us on one big day of ukulele madness.
Great acts from around Australia, ukulele clubs and groups, markets, art craft and workshops!
Open mic’s and blackboard performances.
There is something for everyone at The Central Coast Ukulele Festival at the Beautiful Entrance.
The Best part is it’s all FREE.

We will be holding a dinner show at the Diggers, The Entrance on Saturday night May 26
Fabulous show from Johnny Balance and Jonas Jost. The very entertaining Bosko and Honey . The incredible talents of Terry Murray and the beautiful voices and music from Mirrabooka.
The cost for all this amazing show is $45 Pp for dinner and show.
Contact The Entrance Town Centre Managemenr or Diggers for bookings. Don’t miss our limited seats available.
Come all ages and enjoy our day
May 26 The Entrance, Central Coast