LONDON GIGS - AUGUST 2010 ONWARDS (Bold & Caps = I recommend / (s) = supporting)
Monday 9th August - Sleigh Bells @ Lexington / Lilies on Mars @ Enterprise / Rachel Harrington @ Slaughtered Lamb
Tuesday 10th August - Fools Gold @ Madam JoJo’s / Wayne Hancock […]

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Just a quickie to remind you we have the fantastic Nova Scottian duo THE
MINNIKINS playing Clerkenville West at The Betsey tomorrow night (Sat 7th
August), joined by TROUBADOUR ROSE and JACK DAY for a smashing line up of
Folky countryness … Dancing with DJ Poco Pow til late all for only a
fiver! Please join us!
CLERKENVILLE WEST […]

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Look! it’s on facebook! Join the fun!

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The Ukuleles Of Halifax were the brainchild of J. Chalmers Doane, a Halifax educator who devised a method of ukulele instruction that was eventually used in elementary schools across Canada throughout the 1970’s and ’80’s. Great title for an LP makes for a pretty good cover.
thanks to WFMU for sharing this with the world.
and you […]

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Just lovely! you can listen to it here….

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From the wonderful Nalu Music blog by John King…
In the 1850s, an Oxford clergyman and author named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson snapped the first-ever pictures of the tiny, toylike instrument. The subjects of that photo shoot were three young sisters—Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell—each dressed in Madeiran lace and holding a machete. Dodgson, who is remembered […]

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Hard not to wax lyrical about the Brüko soprano only 3 cm deep and light as a feather, made in Germany sounds amazing and incredibly beautiful, makes me happy just looking at it, and, Hooray! Sold at the Duke of Uke!

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Passing time is easy with a ukulele in your hand see how Neil Armstrong got through his time spent in quarantine after returning from the moon…

Photo by Don Blair

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Going back a bit now but still available from amazon, The Idler magazine did great feature on ukuleles in issue 38, and I think the same issue had how to live in a yurt and how to grow a wild flower meadow, all really useful life skills.

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