Real Ones || Here Comes the Sun

Thanks to M. Wagstaff of the Berkeley Ukulele Club, for this find...

Real Ones are five guys from Bergen who sing and play together in amazing harmony. Their interweaving voices and the slightly haunting strings seem to create just a touch of the orient. This band has to be seen live! Folk, indie, psychedlia - in an original and lovely blend!

"The day after our gig at Solfestuken (the celebration of the return of the sun) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard we took off into the arctic with the risk of freezing to death or getting eaten by polar bears. If that had happened, this video of the appropriate Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" would have been our last recording. As you can see we were lucky with the weather (first day of sunshine since October and only minus 15 degrees celcius) and we made it back.

Longyearbyen is the northern most city in the world, situated on the islands of Svalbard, north of mainland Norway. Only 1200 km from the North Pole, at 78* North. It is dark there from October to March and midnight sun from April to September."

Can you imagine plucking uke strings in freezing temperatures?

Video Compilation || A Tribute to JOHN LENNON

UKULELE HUNT || ALISTAIR WOOD || COMPLETE & UNUSUAL BEATLES CATALOGUE on UKULELE & IMAGINATION

Geo. Formby inspiration to a Beatle or two...

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Alistair Wood scoops another BIG STORY. Always at the forefront of Ukulele Scoopdom he tells quite a story about the most unusual combination of ukulele music, musicians and singers doing every song in the beatles catalogue...

http://ukulelehunt.com/2009/08/31/beatles-complete-on-ukulele-roger-greenawalt-and-david-barratt/

The songs are here:

http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.blogspot.com/

All of the songs are downloadable. Thanks Alistair. HU

(Rhan you'll like this!)

UKENEWS LESSON // IF I FELL

I found this tutorial while surfing and thought you might like it. Go to http://www.ukenews.com/ and click on their lessons tab. There they have instructions and a unique method for teaching the Beatles song “If I Fell”

It is a nice arrangement. I have actually taken their several pages of info and put it on one page. I am sure it took quite a bit of work and time to get it done. I must admit a tinge of disappointment because there are portions of the song missing, there is only the one song so far, and they don't have the words.