Posts Tagged ‘Canada’

12 2010

Fingerstyle and Instrumental Ukulele World Tour

Discover ukulele instrumentals and fingerpicking at its best with the following selection of fingerstyle videos from around the world.

Whether it be in theme tunes, classical pieces, Celtic tunes, Brazilian music, flamenco and gipsy jazz, rock songs, the ukulele sounds really great. Enjoy this demonstration of the versatility of our favourite instrument !

United-Kingdom

Ken Middleton skillfully demonstrates the campanella technique on Loch Na Garr, a beautiful arrangement which I find very relaxing to listen to.

The arrangement can be purchased in Ken‘s ebook of Celtic arrangements : Celtic Ukulele ebook.

Germany

Jo. Vogel has made a lovely arrangement of a piece by Brazilian

Friday, 12th November 2010 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Brazil, Canada, classical, fingerpicking, fingerstyle, France, Germany, Japan, Ukulele, United-Kingdom, United-States, weekly ukulele world tour
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16 2010

Ukulele and Rats World Tour

If you’ve been trying to make sense of my posting schedule lately, chances are you didn’t have much luck. I haven’t been completely quiet though and you might have read my interview on Jim D’Ville‘s Play Ukulele by Ear blog.

Jim came up with really interesting questions on the similarities between language learning and ukulele learning and I must say I really enjoyed reflecting on the subject. You can read the interview here. I also discuss my ukulele learning process, the difficulties I encountered and the reason why I started this blog.

Now, let’s get back to our World Tour business. Today I saw a rat outside the window at work and this reminded me that I had seen a few ukulele videos featuring or mentioning rats lately. So we’re on for a Ukulele & Rats World Tour.

Monday, 16th August 2010 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Canada, Poland, Polish, United-States
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25 2010

Top 5 visiting countries : weekly ukulele World Tour

I have decided to make a weekly tube of my ukulele World Tour findings from various areas of the globe.

Today’s globe spin will take us to my top 5 visiting countries which are the United-States, France, the United-Kingdom, Germany and Canada.

Canada and United-States

Let’s start with a simultaneous trip to Toronto and Cincinnati with this cool US/Canadian collaboration written by J. Kevin Wolfe for the voice of Zoe Jansen.

The song is called Fixin’ Up Something Sweet.

Thanks to Kevin for mailing me about this video.

Next comes a great fingerstyle performance by Rob aka sanfordandsong

Friday, 25th June 2010 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Canada, France, Germany, United-Kingdom, United-States
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09 2010

Ukulele from the French-speaking world

Let’s find out what the French speaking ukulele players have been up to lately. Today, there will be videos for all tastes and all types of mood.

Feeling curious about the world ?

There is very little information about the video and I don’t know for sure what language the song, called Iteca, is in.

Anyhow, the ukulele player is French so I’ve decided to include the song in this post. The video was apparently filmed in Kotor, Montenegro. It’s a lovely song.

Tuesday, 9th March 2010 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Canada, France
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29 2010

Beatles Ukulele covers : 1968 (The White Album)

Time for more Beatles ukulele covers ! Today we’ll be listening to songs from the album simply titled The Beatles, more commonly known as The White Album. The White Album came out on the 22nd of November 1968 and is actually one of my favourite Beatles albums.

Here are 16 ukulele covers of songs from the White Album, from players from 8 different countries.

The Beatles -- The White Album -- Disc One

Four girls in the wind, (TinyBand) from the US play a lively and fun version of Back in the USSR with lovely vocal harmonies, kazoo, bongos, tambourine and of course ukulele.

Fabio Koryu Calabró from Italy performs an Italian version of Dear Prudence, Cara Prudenza, with Bosko and Honey at the First Italian Ukulele Festival in Vicenza.