Posts Tagged ‘United-States’

16 2011

Viennese dialect, Cucaracha, summer Ukulele World Tour

This week’s Ukulele World Tour has a certain summer feel and adds a new dialect to listen to with the German Viennese dialect from Austria.

Herman Vandecauter, Paulien and Alex invite us to Spain with their version of La Cucaracha. Meanwhile, David Owens from the US tells us about Paul Simon‘s fifty ways to leave your lover…

Charles Song from Brazil will let you revise some classics while Amanda from Taiwan and Sparkly Rhythm will conclude this post with ukulele covers in Chinese and Thai.

Country: Austria / Language: Austrian (Viennese dialect)

Gofel and Ronaldo perform Glaabst i bin bleed (meaning ‘Do you think I am stupid’) from the Viennese band Worried Men Skiffle Group.

They do not seem unduly worried…

Saturday, 16th July 2011 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chinese, German, Germany, Portuguese, Spanish, Taiwan, Thai, Thailand, United-States, Viennese dialect
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16 2011

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

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.

Wednesday, 16th March 2011 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Australia, Canada, China, Chinese, Ireland, Japan, Nepal, Nepalese, Nepali, Russia, United-States
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01 2011

Folksongs, Chamorro, Hungarian: Weekly Ukulele World Tour

Focus of this week’s Ukulele World Tour will be on folk songs. I really like folk songs as they often relate real-life stories, thus revealing a fragment of a country’s history and culture.

I love it when ukulele players who upload videos give full details about the background of the songs they are performing. I have found a nice selection of these for you to enjoy this week.

Nice language finds this week too with a ukulele video in Chamorro and another in Hungarian.

Country: Australia / Language: English

Here is a lovely English folk ballad performed by eugeneukulele on a Mya Moe mango resonator ukulele.

I found the sheet music for this song here but the lyrics are quite different. There seems to exist several variants of the song.

Tuesday, 1st March 2011 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Australia, Germany, hungarian, Hungary, United-Kingdom, United-States
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19 2011

Misty Miller, Rita Braga:Weekly Ukulele World Tour

This week’s Ukulele World Touroffers a wide variety of videos and subjects which I hope will contribute to your having a nice weekend.

Whether you’re after mesmerizing voices, a slide ukulele performance, Italian pop music, if you feel inclined towards learning some mathematics or if political satire is something for you, you should enjoy this post.

Country: United-Kingdom /Language: English

My favourite video this week, young and talented Misty Miller performs Remember.

Misty Miller has just released her debut album and her track Remember is available for free download here.

Saturday, 19th February 2011 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: France, French, Italian, mathematics, pi, Switzerland, Ukulele, United-Kingdom, United-States
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26 2011

Todd Baio, folk music, Dur Dabla : Weekly Ukulele World Tour

Today I am in the mood for some folk music and this post’s highlight will be Todd Baio who has performed numerous American folk songs on the ukulele.

You’ve probably never wondered what Gallo, a regional ‘patois’ from Upper-Brittany could sound like, but you’ll find out anyway! Read on…

Before we move on to our World Tour, if you are a Firefox user and a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably been plagued by the videos in the posts opening on YouTube rather than here on Ukulele & Languages, making your post reading rather cumbersome. Thanks to Guillaume who told me about this issue, it is now fixed.

Country: United-States / Language: English

Todd Baio performs a traditional American folk song, John Hardy on a baritone ukulele.

The song tells the story of John Hardy who shot a man after loosing 50 cents in a game. John Hardy was convicted of murder and was hung. (Folksongs are so cheerful…)

Read the different lyrics of the song here.

Find the chords here or here.