Kanaal van ukulelezaza

Sweet old tune played on my 60s style 1.

Sweet tune played on sweet uke.

My friend Pieter and I having a good time with our vintage Martin style 3 ukuleles...

The tune is a zaza original called Downhill.

From Rainbow Round The Corner (1943). Billy Uke Scott plays a 1937 Abbott Monarch uke-banjo.

From Rainbow Round The Corner (1943)

Beautiful melody from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Music by Danny Elfman.

Chords (4/4 and 2/4 mixed):

Em | F | F |

B7 | Em | Em D7 |

G | F | F |

B7 | Em | Em D7 |

G | F | F |

Em | B7 |

Am C | F |

Em | B7...

The day before the Ukulele Hooley by the Sea in Ireland Wininboy Fred, Ukulele Uff & Lonesome Dave, Andy Eastwood and I promoted the festival with a short live tune in the RTE studios. Good fun! And what a line-up! Too bad...

In anticipation of my new (old) Knutsen harp uke here is a video of my previous one. Just some noodling.

First gig of new band Oona Libens Trio, at the opening of the wonderful exhibition of Dirk De Keyzer in Gent, Belgium.

At the Haapavesi Folk Festival in Finland I invited all my ukulele students on stage for a shared song: Sä Kaunehin Oot ("You are the most beautiful", a Finnish adaptation of the Yiddish classic Bei Mir Bist Du Schön). Voc...

My entry for the Ukulele Cosmos Open Invitational June 2012. Played on a fabulous soprano made by English luthier Rob Collins of tinguitar.com. Check it out!

Late night after diner jam with Paul Moore and Merton Cahm from Israel. We just had fabulous frittata at restaurant La Pia in Sarzana, Italy, where we played at the Acoustic Guitar Meeting. Video by Daniela Gaidano (grazie...

'Crystalised' by The xx

Directed by Alex Flick and Masato Riesser

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Freight Train (and a bit of Shine) on my 1950s Carnival, live @ Werkplaats K, Kerkrade, Netherlands, 25 March 2012. Thanks Gady & the PUC gang!

Three hands, one uke.