Category Archives: Ukulele

Arizona Veterans Home: Halloween!

We got a gig with the AZ Veterans home to do some Halloween songs and to also thank them for their service. We didn’t have many opportunities for practice but we pulled off a great show for them. Some songs, … Continue reading

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Melissa’s Birthday at the MIM

Our friend Melissa wanted her birthday spent at the MIM, the Musical Instrument Museum. Jaime and I haven’t been in years so we were excited about it. They had a violin exhibit all about the stradivarius. There was really so … Continue reading

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Phoenix Ukulele Group Performs for the Veterans at the AZ State Veterans Home

We were asked by Riders USA to come play for the veterans at the Arizona State Veterans Home and though the show was very short… shorter than we anticipated, we had some fun and so did our audience.

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Cactus Park Community Alliance Concert

We were invited to play at the Cactus Park Community Alliance, today was their Community Safety Fair GAIN event, and the SWAT Team, the Bomb Squad, their K9 Units, Precinct Officers and the High School JROTC were there. Pictures to … Continue reading

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Glendale Folk & Heritage Festival: 2024

We practiced for just over a month to get our playlist down and getting everyone to start, stop, and articulate specific parts together so we sound like we know what we are doing! It all paid off! I think we … Continue reading

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Jake Shimabukuro Christmas Special

Several months ago, I bought us tickets to Jake Shimabukuro’s Christmas Special. This time, he was playing at a different venue. At the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts, a place I haven’t been to in many years. We had front … Continue reading

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Glendale Folk Festival 2023

We all got together about an hour early to play some songs. Over the years, thanks to COVID, we have mostly converted to online meetings and that doesn’t work well for most of our members and online meetings don’t really … Continue reading

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It was my birthday yesterday. I got the day off of work and got to do whatever I wanted, which isn’t really too much lately with this whole pandemic thing going on. Most of the day was spent responding to … Continue reading

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Sweet Child O Mine – Day 100

After 100 Days, I still haven’t mastered this song. I’m not even disappointed that I don’t have the whole song memorized. It’s a tough one. My friend Evan, who demos this song for RockClass101.com has some super dexterous fingers and … Continue reading

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Remote Stuff: Coronavirus/COVID19

Since the epidemic was announced and we’ve been having stay at home, we’ve done a lot of stuff remote. It’s been a 3 weeks now since both Jaime and I have been completely remote and the Coronavirus has started taking … Continue reading

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