Posts Tagged ‘United-States’

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.

Wednesday, 26th January 2011 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Bretagne, Brittany, Dur Dabla, folk, French, Gallo, Hungary, Todd Baio, United-States
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07 2011

Traditional songs and hymns:Weekly Ukulele World Tour

Today we’ll explore quite a few traditional songs played on the uke, before moving on to other types of songs from around the world and ending up with a couple of pop/rock ukulele covers and a funny bluesy original song to give you energy for the rest of the weekend.

Country: United-States / Language: English

ErinBev performs a traditional Scottish Folksong from the 18th century, The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond, on a baritone ukulele.

Lyrics and the history of the song. which was first published in 1841, can be found on Wikipedia.

Friday, 7th January 2011 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: France, Hungary, Indonesia, Norway, norwegian, Scotland, United-Kingdom, United-States, weekly ukulele world tour
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22 2010

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

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.

Country: United-States / Language: English

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

Wednesday, 22nd December 2010 by Armelle Europe
Category: Ukulele World Tour
Tags: Canada, Christmas, Corsica, Corsican, France, Germany, Huron, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Polish, United-States, Vietnam, weekly ukulele world tour, Wyandot
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03 2010

Kaleidoscope of countries: Weekly Ukulele World Tour

I am still not quite ready to get into the Christmas mood so you’ll have to wait a bit more before you see a Christmas ukulele World Tour post (and it’s not Christmas everywhere in the world anyway).

If you can’t wait, you might want to check last year’s bunch of Christmas videos here and here.

In the meantime, here are some ukulele videos from the UK, the US, France, Brazil, Germany, Korea, Denmark and the Czech Republic.