Club Uke: At the Tucson Ukulele Meetup, Everyone is Treated Like a Serious Musician

The Tucson Ukulele Meetup is not your cookie-cutter uke group
The Tucson Ukulele Meetup is not your cookie-cutter uke group
There are three things about Cathy Guthrie and Amy Nelson's duo Folk Uke that you should know right off the bat.
Nearly everything that can be done on slide guitar can be transferred to the ukulele. Here's how to get started with playing bottleneck slide blues on ukulele.
May Singhi Breen, "The Ukulele Lady," got the New York Musician's Union to include the ukulele on its list of instruments and created a teaching method for the instrument on the mainland.
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Here's how to get started with strumming on your ukulele. In this lesson you'll learn how to strum a ukulele with a few different patterns.
The nonprofit Ukulele Kids Club has donated ukuleles to at least 40 hospitals that specialize in pediatric care to help with music therapy for patients.
I started playing games and singing songs with my kids, returning to the simple tunes (and childhood) I had left behind. You have to sing to your children—there is no other option.
BY JENNIFER LOGUE From the Summer 2016 issue of Ukulele Summer is full of possibility and even more so when you’re a uker. It’s the ideal instrument for travel—lightweight, friendly, and capable of fitting in just about anywhere. This summer,…
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