BigDaddyUker
Well-known member
Hey Seasonistas! I have a couple seasons under my belt and the experience has been awesome. I signed up to host a season in November and I knew the perfect theme but I figured out there is one problem. I think the theme is bigger than 8 days plus there has been signs almost everyday for 7 or 8 days about this very idea so I thought I would throw it out and see what happens.
My theme was entitled Healing Ukuleles and the rules around the season were very simple. Bring you and your Ukulele somewhere, to somebody that needs some healing. Could be a neighbor that you notice is down in the dumps, it could be a local nursing home or hospital or it could be an Alzheimer's or memory care unit or Assisted Living...wherever there are people that could benefit from you and your ukulele.
The videos, although they could prominently display you and your Uke, should be of your audience if it all possible. I think it would be absolutely amazing to capture those that you are playing for. I'm telling you, I have read some amazing stories over the past 7 or 8 days of the healing powers of the Ukulele. Stories of nearly catatonic people that have responded to a particular song. Imagine if it turns out to be your song that lifts a head or moves a lip that hasn't in years.
The signs started with the story from the fall edition of Ukulele magazine, page 58 that is about Uke2Heal and it just went from there. That led me to stories from all over the world including some from our very own Seasonistas. It has been incredible. My personal motivation in all this is my Father-in-law has Alzheimer's and is in a memory care unit of an assisted living facility. I am currently putting together a 10-20 song songbook that i can take there and just start playing and see what happens.
My own personal experience with this is something that I only learned of this week in a backdoor sort of way. When I was in the hospital for surgery on my leg I brought my little plastic outdoor ukulele with me. I would waste away the day and night just softly banging away on that thing. Nurses would tell me how much they love the Uke and why and had one nurse that actually played and would stop in to bang around on it. What I didn't know what that nurses and other hospital staff, as well as patients, would wheel up outside my door and finish off their charting, take a quick breather or just sit there and relax and listen to me play. I only wish I would have known because I would have hit the hallways and rooms to share my ukulele. I'm telling you, if my screeching can attract positive attention, there is a lot of opportunity for this group to bring healing all over the world.
So there it is. If you already do this or have done it...GREAT! It would be awesome to hear from you as encouragement to the rest of us - do SHARE!
BDU
My theme was entitled Healing Ukuleles and the rules around the season were very simple. Bring you and your Ukulele somewhere, to somebody that needs some healing. Could be a neighbor that you notice is down in the dumps, it could be a local nursing home or hospital or it could be an Alzheimer's or memory care unit or Assisted Living...wherever there are people that could benefit from you and your ukulele.
The videos, although they could prominently display you and your Uke, should be of your audience if it all possible. I think it would be absolutely amazing to capture those that you are playing for. I'm telling you, I have read some amazing stories over the past 7 or 8 days of the healing powers of the Ukulele. Stories of nearly catatonic people that have responded to a particular song. Imagine if it turns out to be your song that lifts a head or moves a lip that hasn't in years.
The signs started with the story from the fall edition of Ukulele magazine, page 58 that is about Uke2Heal and it just went from there. That led me to stories from all over the world including some from our very own Seasonistas. It has been incredible. My personal motivation in all this is my Father-in-law has Alzheimer's and is in a memory care unit of an assisted living facility. I am currently putting together a 10-20 song songbook that i can take there and just start playing and see what happens.
My own personal experience with this is something that I only learned of this week in a backdoor sort of way. When I was in the hospital for surgery on my leg I brought my little plastic outdoor ukulele with me. I would waste away the day and night just softly banging away on that thing. Nurses would tell me how much they love the Uke and why and had one nurse that actually played and would stop in to bang around on it. What I didn't know what that nurses and other hospital staff, as well as patients, would wheel up outside my door and finish off their charting, take a quick breather or just sit there and relax and listen to me play. I only wish I would have known because I would have hit the hallways and rooms to share my ukulele. I'm telling you, if my screeching can attract positive attention, there is a lot of opportunity for this group to bring healing all over the world.
So there it is. If you already do this or have done it...GREAT! It would be awesome to hear from you as encouragement to the rest of us - do SHARE!
BDU