Vancouver Ukulele Circle Meeting – Tuesday November 17, 2015

Hey there Strummers!
The ravages of wind, rain and power outages contributed to a slightly lower turnout than usual but it was still a VERY good time. A couple of highlights for me were having Jennifer singing Janis Joplin’s part on Bobby McGee and learning that tonight was Tom Saunder’s 10th anniversary of coming to uke circle AND he performed his 100th song. Pretty amazing.

Before I get to the other performers here’s a reminder that next month (Dec 15) is Jingelele night. We’ll be doing songs from the Christmas songbook which you can download here:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/vanukes/ChristmasSongbookVUC2013.pdf and here are some additional songs to go with it:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/vanukes/ChristmasSongbookVUC-Appendix-A-2014.pdf.

Performance time in Dec will be seasonal songs so start planning if you want to perform!

As for tonight’s performances it got off to a great start with a very pleasing instrumental duet performed by Anthony and his young son Leo of Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry.
Following the excitement of the election and a new PM we had two Trudeau songs in a row. Tom Moody sang Justin Time and I followed that up with Trudeau Gonna Show You a Better Way. It’s a song I wrote to capture the good feelings and words I’ve been hearing about the new PM. It’s been recorded so I’m planning to get it up on Youtube / facebook for you to have a look at soon.
(Here it is: https://youtu.be/fvrr2dL6_UI).

Uncle Bob sang Fly Me to the Moon with his faithful Baritone uke. Ed did an energetic take on the Beatles I Saw Her Standing There. I guess you pretty much HAVE to do that song energetically ha ha! Jennifer Joplin (that’s what I call her now) came back to sing Fare Thee Well – a lovely folk ballad. And by the way I was so happy I was able to get her to lead a song and I would love it if we could get more female voices leading more songs. What about it ladies?!!!

Tom S sang his 100th song which was about the greatest superhero of all time. Who happens to be Canadian…can you guess? That’s right, The Littlest Hobo!!
Boaz ended the evening with another TV show theme from the Unknown Stuntman (as sung by Lee Majors I believe!)

We actually got through all the planned songs tonight! The new ones went well and I’m looking forward to seeing you at the St. James Hall on December 15th for Jingelele!

Thanks to everyone who helped out: the Rogue folks and especially Susan who set up the chairs and tables pretty much single-handedly tonight. A feat that could probably only be matched by the Littlest Hobo.

Take care my friends, until next time, and keep on strummin’
Ralph

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