Songbook Help.

SailingUke

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Our group has been using the Daily Ukulele Books as our club books.
I like the idea of not having any copyright issues and that the books are readily available and reasonably priced for all members. I have built the group to 250+ members with 50 showing up twice a month for a strum and sing session. The books are a great resource, but any of the songs don't work in a group. I would like to keep using a published book. I am looking for a book with songs for a group. I am hoping some forum members have suggestions. We play 15-20 songs per session so I prefer a book with 200+ songs.
 
My local ukulele group, run by Mark Dutton, Morristown Uke Jam (https://www.meetup.com/MorristownUkeJam/) has LOTS of PDF songbooks on their Meetup page here: https://www.meetup.com/MorristownUkeJam/files/?sortBy=name&sortOrder=asc

as well as tons of tutorial videos for most, if not all of the songs, on their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MorristownUkeJam/playlists

I am not sure of the copyright clearance nor if/what are in the Public Domain, but you might do well to contact the Mark Dutton to find out, otherwise it seems the PDF files are free (as in beer) to download, and there are LOTS of them and I like the format, as the way they are set up, most of the time one whole song fits on a single page, usually formatted across 3 columns, in landscape orientation, which makes nice for using those plastic sheet-protectors and simple loose rings to bind them together (with page flipping it lays mostly flat)...unless of course you are using an iPad w/OnSong or similar, which I have not done yet myself...

I have seen a few other 'free' songbooks online, and will try to make another post with the download links...might take me a few days before I have time though...

Hope this helps! :music:
 
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