EricStetson
Well-known member
It's been a while since I've visited the Underground or posted anything. I've moved across the country (from Statesboro, Georgia to Sacramento, California) and have been teaching lessons and playing gigs, planting my feet for a while. Lately I've been running into some pretty serious stress and had a family member die last week. I keep coming back to the ukulele and my students for comfort. I even got to see Jake Shimabukuro play on Sunday and it just about melted my face off. I'll attach a picture with me and a few of my students with Jake.
Today just as I was sinking back into my little pity-funk I got a text from a student saying she would advance me lesson fees for a year to pay for a uke upgrade, a brand spankin' new Kanile'a that I have yet to pick out.
You hear it time and time again, that we're "spreading aloha" with our music and with this instrument, but I'm really experiencing it now in a powerful way. Right after the picture with Jake was taken, he turned to me, shook my hand and said "Thank you for helping spread the joy of the instrument." I want to extend that to all of you - thank you for spreading joy with music and this wonderful little instrument that has brought so many people out of the kinds of stress and grief I am going through. We really are making the world a better place.
Today just as I was sinking back into my little pity-funk I got a text from a student saying she would advance me lesson fees for a year to pay for a uke upgrade, a brand spankin' new Kanile'a that I have yet to pick out.
You hear it time and time again, that we're "spreading aloha" with our music and with this instrument, but I'm really experiencing it now in a powerful way. Right after the picture with Jake was taken, he turned to me, shook my hand and said "Thank you for helping spread the joy of the instrument." I want to extend that to all of you - thank you for spreading joy with music and this wonderful little instrument that has brought so many people out of the kinds of stress and grief I am going through. We really are making the world a better place.