I had a great time at the uke festival yesterday. It was small but so much fun!
Only two vendors this year and hoping for more next year. Flea Market music and Earnest Instruments. Both had a nice selection. Flea Market had some great bargains on seconds instruments. I played both flea and flukes and decided the wood fret board is something I wouldn't want to live without. They only had ukes with plastic fret boards.
I attended 3 workshops. The first with Jim Beloff. He was fantastic taught us lots of tips and tricks to make fretting easier to transition. He was entertaining and informative. Also, He and Liz let Kurt and I have a sneak peak at the list of songs that will be in their new Daily Ukulele Book to be released hopefully the end of October. Yeah. It's going to be a great one!
Then I attended a Chord Melody workshop which I have a LOT of work to do to figure it out and practice and an intermediate workshop.. Also lots of work to do. Excited to have new things to practice and learn!
We took a break for dinner and met up with some folks from our local uke club and meet some Uu members (Stop Lurking and join the fun!)
We had lots of fun conversations.. Talked about Ukes shared about our ukes and lots of chatting too.. fun times!
Then back to Proctors for the concert, It was great fun. The Beloff's are so fun and the concert just got better and better..
Sure hope that there is a second annual Electric City Uke festival..
Thanks for reading!