Different countries,
Different cultures
one common language... the ukulele.
I’d like to start this World Tour Post with a video of Bosko & Honey playing a tune called Earthquake together with Gensblue from Japan.
My thoughts go to the people of Japan at this very difficult time.
You can help Bosko and Honey support the Japan Disaster Appeal by buying their Ukulele Safari Compilation CD. Full details are available from their site.
Coming to an acceptable level of Christmas mood has been rather difficult this year, partly because Christmas ukulele videos in languages other than English have been rather hard to find.
Santa did bring me a nice Christmas present though, with the addition of a new language to the Ukulele and Languages collection : Corsican.
With a couple of days to go before Christmas, I’d like to wish you all a very merry Christmas, filled with ukulele songs and languages.
If you’ve come here just for the Christmas videos, scroll down to the end of this post. (It’s a bad idea though because you’ll miss some really good videos).
Let’s start the World tour with non-christmas songs in various styles to suit different tastes.
Great baritone ukulele fingerpicking on this cover of Richland Woman Blues, a song by country blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt performed by Jake Loew
Aaron Keim plays the ballad of KC Jones. Casey Jones was a locomotive
This week’s Ukulele World Tourwill start off in Europe, with a lovely voice from Ireland and a Dutch song by the Uke Box.
Featured as well some excellent ukulele instrumentals from the UK and Japan as well as a live performance from Brazil.
Ever wondered how Nepali singing would combine with the uke ? Today is your chance to find out.
Kitchen singing with Emily Cole singing Little Kočko.
Just noticed today that a very good live performance of this song had been uploaded so I’ve added it as well.
Once more, Al displays amazing skills in his ukulele version of Offenbach‘s Orpheus in the Underworld.
Al‘s fingers move at the pace of the Infernal Galop on the fingerboard, and I still wonder how one can move so accurately along the fretboard at such a speed. Hardly human this…
Other nice instrumentals this week include Tears wet the Tumen River by Cho / Happy Bear from South-Korea. Thanks Jeff for mailing me about this Korean player.…
Today I have concocted an English-speaking-countries uke trip which I hope you will enjoy.
A fun original song by Barry from Dún Laoghaire _ I swear, it rhymes! _. It’s such a long time since I left Ireland now that I have to double check the spelling. Time flies !
The song is called Anywhere The Weather’s Not Too Bad. Warning : some instruments shown on the video can be misleading.
UkeTubeUK does a cover of Minnie the Moocher
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