Friday – last day of Ukulele lessons, last day of Haliburton School of the Arts (this year).

Yesterday, we worked hard at our repertoire in preparation for our mini concert today. We chose 5 pieces – Feeling Groovy (strumming chords), Lavender’s Blue (picking notes), My Girl (picking notes and strumming chords), Latin Time (picking notes), You Ain’t Going Nowhere (strumming chords) – and practiced all of them several times.

As it was Thursday, it was special guest entertainment time at the main campus and this week it was Eve Goldberg, an international singer/songwriter AND my Ukulele teacher!  Almost the entire class was there to cheer her on although, she’s so used to performing, I don’t think she really needed us.  She was great – played all songs she had written herself, on guitar, her go-to instrument, and 3 old-time favourites on the Uke.  We were well-placed in the front row and thoroughly enjoyed her hour.

   

Our concert today, was a great success.  We shlepped our chairs, music stands, music, and ukes to an open area outside of the cafeteria (we were in the high school) and played for about 20 minutes, entertaining other students on their way to lunch.  I thought we were pretty good and our audience was enthusiastic (or just polite).  Regardless, Steve video-taped it!!!  Can’t wait to see/hear us and I’ll be sure to come back to this post and add a link to U-Tube in the near future for your listening pleasure.  In the meantime, he snapped a quick picture with his iPhone…

Last night, I cooked up almost everything that was left in the fridge so we had another dinner out tonight.  This time, we headed to Minden and ended up at the Dominion Hotel (which is really a bar/restaurant/patio).

We sat on the patio (to the right, behind the lattice wall) and were entertained by two country singers who were set up across the street at a temporary outdoor venue.  Seems the town closes down this small section of road every Friday night in the summer so they can bring in singers to play from 7pm to dusk.  Our luck… they were very good.

We are back at our bunky, tired.  We will pack up and head home tomorrow.