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Asia, Canada, Ireland, Russia : Weekly Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:42:57 +0000

I’d like to start this 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.

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Blues, Country, Irish, Christmas and more : Weekly Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:00:16 +0000

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.

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Emily Cole, the Uke Box, Al, Yamaguchi : Weekly Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:00:25 +0000

This week’s will 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.

Country: Ireland / Language: English

Kitchen singing with Emily Cole singing Little Kočko.

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Classical and fingerstyle Ukulele

Armelle Europe — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:00:20 +0000

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…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxFnrgUMYw8

Other nice instrumentals this week include Tears wet the Tumen River…

English-speaking countries Sunday uke tour

Armelle Europe — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:00:47 +0000

Today I have concocted an English-speaking-countries uke trip which I hope you will enjoy.

1. Ireland

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.

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Ukulele song in Irish : Siúil a Rúin

Armelle Europe — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:00:00 +0000

It’s always when you stop looking that things come your way…
Today’s ukulele find is really great for me : a traditional Irish song called Siúil a Rúin.The timing is perfect with the first International Irish Ukulele Festival being held this coming weekend (15th-16th of August) in Dublin. Find out all the details here.

The song is in English with an Irish chorus and tells about the sadness felt after the departure of…

Ukulele and Celtic languages (Part V)

Armelle Europe — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Writing a post on Ukulele and Celtic languages was not an easy task. I’ve been scanning YouTube for videos in the different Gaelic languages for hours and my eyesight is now a bit blurry.
There are songs in Gaelic all right but not so many featuring a ukulele.

As a result I have been a bit more lenient and accepted other instruments for some of the Celtic languages until someone sends me videos featuring both ukulele (banjolele acceptable too)…

Ukulele : Fingerstyle Uke by Rob MacKillop

Armelle Europe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Rob MacKillop has opened an online store for Fingerstyle Ukulele Arrangements.

He has written a series of e-books on fingerstyle uke :
- 10 Progressive Fingerstyle Studies for Uke
- 20 Spanish Baroque Pieces by Gaspar Sanz arranged for Uke
- 20 Celtic Fingerstyle Uke Tunes
- 20 Pieces from Briggs’ Banjo Instructor [Boston, 1855]

I’ve just bought the 20 Celtic Fingerstyle Uke Tunes (cost : £5) and it consists of 20 Scots and Irish tunes arranged…