Always Hope

Good one Peatle !

I did not know you were a UKE player. 

Nice job

Jim     

Thank you Jim,  I got the ukulele given to me  a few years back so recently I have been mucking around with it.  Last time I played ukulele before that was as a young kid my mother for many years had a ukulele that she use to play and sing  Fijian and also popular English lyric party songs.
 

Cheers Ken, thank you for your input. So far I have sort of ended up with a bit of a folk music sea shanty feel going on.  I have been listening to Chris Thile  playing Mandolin recently that style of music he played with The Punch Brothers appealed to me. That is when I thought I will try and see if I could get some sort of element of that sound going on my ukulele, So far I haven’t had much success but I thought I will keep working at it and see if I can improve with practice. A friend of mine has started playing guitar with a  group of Bluegrass guys and his guitar playing that style just blows me away. I don’t think I would be able to get to that level on guitar as some of the finger stretches he has to do on the neck of the guitar would be impossible for me to achieve and also at speed. I like the history of bluegrass music and the way it begun  with the people who migrated to America in the 1600s from Ireland, Scotland, and England and brought with them the basic styles of music that is now generally considered to be the roots of modern bluegrass music. Also the Black people who introduced the Banjo to the Appalachia area. Of course now that roots. Bluegrass. folk style of music is popular all around the world. My love of Bluegrass goes back to the late 60s when a New Zealand group called Hamilton County Bluegrass band introduced that music to this part of the world. Colleen Trenwith, who played fiddle with Hamilton County Bluegrass Band later left New Zealand and went  on to be a sort after session recording studio  musician in Nashville for a while through the 70's and 80's. Like many musicians, teaching is now her bread and butter. Since 2007 she has taught at East Tennessee State University, instructing about 300 students in bluegrass, blues and other "old-time country" genres. When The Beverly Hillbillies came to New Zealand television in the late 60's with Earl Scruggs’ banjo driving its ‘Ballad Of Jed Clampett’ theme song that hooked me onto bluegrass also.