Playing and enjoying the ukulele together!
If the teacher is Ralph Shaw you know it is going to be special. This mini lesson is no exception. LIven up your strumming with this George Formby strum.
If you aren’t familiar with Mr. Formby, check out this Wikipedia article.
Click here for the article and music excerpts on UkuleleMagazine.com.
“Raymond Penfield was the father of a London Caberet artist, Holly Penfield and often sang often as part of her act when she was in London or Rome. He passed away at the age of 98. He lived in a small California community and sang locally as often as he could. He also had tried out for America’s Got Talent, and was known for his continuing effort to write and create songs with his son-in-law and daughter’ https://youtu.be/O2GTHFeN4LM
This semester I started a ukulele club at the high school that I work at. We have a variety of skill levels so we project YouTube ukulele playalongs. Ukulaliens has become a favorite source of them. I was pleased to see the creation of ‘Ukulele Wales’ which offers a variety of resources including tutorials for their Ukulaliens songs. Nice!
Here is the introductory video for Ukulele Wales…