Ukulele on the Skyrail with hand-built ukulele

Just got back from the Cairns Ukulele Festival and went up to Kuranda while I was there by Skyrail. It was a fun trip, 7.5km (4.7 miles) through the air on cable car gondolas, and what better place to do a ukulele video?

The song is one of my originals, "Without You". Original version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L5Fq7vigXc

It's also a good chance to show off my uke that I built in the uke building course in the week leading up to the festival. The course was great fun! It was run over four days by Allen from Barron River Guitars and Ukuleles and Michael from Localele. Check them out - they both make excellent ukes and take great care in every part of the building process.

http://www.brguitars.com/

http://michealconnorwoodwork.com.au/ukulele/localele/localele.html

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Music

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• ukulele
• skyrail
• kuranda
• cairns
• cairns ukulele festival
• barron river guitars
• localele

[ctrymaus]

Beautiful scenery! And I love the song. Why oh why can't I ever learn to chunk?? You've got it down so perfectly!

[fourteentwelve]

@ctrymaus Thank you Joanna! Yes, it was beautiful scenery up there. It's a really lovely part of Australia. Keep going with the chunking - you'll get there! It took me ages, but once I finally got it, it became easy.

[ctrymaus]

@fourteentwelve I'll keep practicing. :-) There are not a lot of songs I'd use that in, as I do a lot of folk songs and older songs. Isn't it a more modern technique?

[fourteentwelve]

@ctrymaus I'm not really sure how long chunking has been around. I use it for songs that need some kind of a beat... sort of like percussion I guess.

[UnluckyMum]

I would so love to play this one with you and do some harmonies, it is a great song and I have only just found it :)

Excellent stuff, although I also am afraid of heights . Hope you had a great Xmas !

[fourteentwelve]

@UnluckyMum Hi Caroline! I'm sorry to take a while to get back to you. I've been away from YouTube a bit. I'd love to play it with you too! It's a shame we're half a world apart. Maybe we could do a YouTube collaboration if you feel up for it? I hope you had a great Christmas too, and Happy New Year!!

[ctrymaus]

@fourteentwelve I hope I can get as good as you some day. :-)

[fourteentwelve]

@NojEnserfud Thank you very much! Great to see you back here and I'm looking forward to watching your latest video!

[fourteentwelve]

@Litlelilia Merci beaucoup Lilia!!

[fourteentwelve]

@ukeyermind Thank you Shawn - I've certainly been getting around a bit lately. I've had a lot of adventures this last month - photos to come on Facebook in the next few days :)