The Sicamous Three Chord Ukulele Band now has 34 members signed up. Never has the whole group been there at the same time, but every Monday at 1 p.m. at the Red Barn Arts Centre, the sounds of lots of good strumming and good laughter fills the barn.
All of you who said you would come and join us and haven’t yet – now’s the time!
Other than my piano and Celtic harp, my home office is now quickly filling up with ukuleles as well as guitars. I must admit that I am a collector of instruments, any instruments, and am the proud owner of an old, beat up euphonium (a small tuba like instrument) which hangs on the wall in the hallway. I am keeping an old trumpet which seems to have been kicked down a cobblestone street a few times. But I love it as well as a harmonica, recorder, Irish flute, Guatemalan flute etc. It is a great way to decorate my office and it also helps to make me think that someday I will learn to play all of them. I now play some of them, not very well, but when you try to play an instrument and learn even the basics, it is such a joy. And when you can play a musical instrument or read books, you never need to be bored, even when your cable TV goes out. You can get together with some friends for a sing-a-long or jam session.