UKULELE COURSES COMMENCE NEXT WEEK!
The time has come to venture into a new term of ukulele training, playing and enjoyment! This term we have some brand new material and songs for all levels and due to popular demand we will also be hosting some smaller group class sessions for those who don't like to Zoom so go check out the new timetable along with our six week vocal booster course lead by the fantastic Claire Jones.
It's been a funny old time during this pandemic and it often feels like we will never get back to any normality. So many festivals have shut shop, the Rock N Roll marathon is no more and I can't imagine us ever celebrating World Ukulele Day the way we used too, with over 300 ukulele players all bundled into Liverpool One, but one thing is certain, music will always prevail and new festivals, events and celebrations will pop up.
Talking of celebrations, it will be 10 years to the day that we ran the very first ukulele taster session on the 12th December 2022 so this year we will be working towards the biggest UCL event to date to celebrate 10 years of music making, friendships, romantic relationships (there's been a few) and of course the performances. We have performed at Nukefest, 2 Parbulele Festivals, 6 Summer Strum Festivals, 3 Threshold Festivals, 2 Love Wavertree Festivals, 2 LIMF Festivals, 3 Rock N Roll marathons, 3 Light Night Festivals, 2 Liverpool Pride Festivals, 2 Smithdown Road Festivals, 2 Beer Festivals, 2 World Ukulele Day Festivals, 2 Make Music Day Festivals, 5 Squash Garden Events, 1 Homotopiafest, a live performance on the ferry to Amsterdam, over 20 busking sessions including 2 International Beatles Week sessions and many more. We have had the honour of collaborating with some other fantastic community music groups and acclaimed artists including Natalie McCool, Ali Ingle, the iChoir and the Choir With No Name to a packed out audience at St Georges Hall, which was epic.
We have also had the pleasure of inviting some fantastic Ukulele virtuosos to our HQ including the legendary Ukulele Uff, Manitoba Hal and Peter Moss, Zoe Bestel, Ali Ingle, and we even got the chance to meet Craig & Sarah Maisel, Jake Shimabukuro twice and the wonderful Taimane Gardner on their visits to the UK. I wonder will 2022 have in store for UCL! Well I can say for certain that we will be heading back to summer Strum and Shrewkfest this year and a bunch of us will be heading to the Lake District for another Ukulele retreat in July. If you would like to join us performing at festivals this summer, all being well, then get yourself booked onto one of our courses and start learning the UCL repertoire for 2022!
It's been a funny old time during this pandemic and it often feels like we will never get back to any normality. So many festivals have shut shop, the Rock N Roll marathon is no more and I can't imagine us ever celebrating World Ukulele Day the way we used too, with over 300 ukulele players all bundled into Liverpool One, but one thing is certain, music will always prevail and new festivals, events and celebrations will pop up.
Talking of celebrations, it will be 10 years to the day that we ran the very first ukulele taster session on the 12th December 2022 so this year we will be working towards the biggest UCL event to date to celebrate 10 years of music making, friendships, romantic relationships (there's been a few) and of course the performances. We have performed at Nukefest, 2 Parbulele Festivals, 6 Summer Strum Festivals, 3 Threshold Festivals, 2 Love Wavertree Festivals, 2 LIMF Festivals, 3 Rock N Roll marathons, 3 Light Night Festivals, 2 Liverpool Pride Festivals, 2 Smithdown Road Festivals, 2 Beer Festivals, 2 World Ukulele Day Festivals, 2 Make Music Day Festivals, 5 Squash Garden Events, 1 Homotopiafest, a live performance on the ferry to Amsterdam, over 20 busking sessions including 2 International Beatles Week sessions and many more. We have had the honour of collaborating with some other fantastic community music groups and acclaimed artists including Natalie McCool, Ali Ingle, the iChoir and the Choir With No Name to a packed out audience at St Georges Hall, which was epic.
We have also had the pleasure of inviting some fantastic Ukulele virtuosos to our HQ including the legendary Ukulele Uff, Manitoba Hal and Peter Moss, Zoe Bestel, Ali Ingle, and we even got the chance to meet Craig & Sarah Maisel, Jake Shimabukuro twice and the wonderful Taimane Gardner on their visits to the UK. I wonder will 2022 have in store for UCL! Well I can say for certain that we will be heading back to summer Strum and Shrewkfest this year and a bunch of us will be heading to the Lake District for another Ukulele retreat in July. If you would like to join us performing at festivals this summer, all being well, then get yourself booked onto one of our courses and start learning the UCL repertoire for 2022!
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