Jimmy D has a beautiful video posted on his site. I thought I would live by the words of the famous Andy Andrews and "spread the love!"
I wanted to create this blog as a place where I can store and retrieve information for future reference. I chose the name Humble Uker Ramblings because I have started out strumming my father's 1950's painted Harmony ukulele. I think that the greatest appeal of the ukulele as "the people's instrument" is it's humble simplicity. My contact email is HumbleUker@gmail.com. I have also been working on a blog for the Baritone Ukulele called Humble Baritonics.
Showing posts with label Jim D'Ville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim D'Ville. Show all posts
Monday, January 3, 2011
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Jim D'Ville || Uses His Hands and Good Ears
Jim D'Ville has burst out onto the ukulele scene in a big way. Unfortunately, I have missed him when he's given classes locally. Missed him at Burning Uke in 2009. I think that his blog is the biggest source for improving your personal performance. This is the first time I've seen Jim perform. I'm very impressed with his playing and the Joel Eckhaus made tenor Stradelele.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Sunday, August 30, 2009
SHELLEY RICKEY || JIM D'VILLE
Photo from Shelly's blog
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I have some new people that have become followers of HumbleUker blog and they have blogs that I am sure you'll like to check out too.
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Shelly Rickey is a creative illustrator and musician. She's from Mississippi but resides in the Netherlands and has been travelling to ukulele festivals in Ireland, Italy, Belgium, etc... She's a member of "The Uke Box" and has taught some classes along with her partner Marko at the festivals and selling some of her creations, and hand-made musical items.
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Shelly's art I term as folk or primitive art. It is art that springs naturally from a creative spirit. It's fun and cheerful and at tmes functional. I have been interested in the handmade cigarbox instruments because they look so rustic, simple, and provide quite an awesome sound too. On Shelley's blog http://shelleyrickey.blogspot.com/ she has a homemade washbasin bass, cigar box ukuleles, and other instruments.
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In her June 2, 2009 post she has a beautiful mermaid playing the ukulele jamboree flyer and she mentions Ukulele Intervention - A ukulele workshop for aspiring ukulele players. I would liked to been there. This blog is as visualy delightful as they are creative and informative.
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Jim D'Ville has also linked up to HumbleUker and he's going to be coming to the Bay Area and teaching some classes in Playing the Ukulele by Ear at Mike DaSilva's shop in Berkeley, California. His http://playukulelebyear.blogspot.com/ blog is focused on developing a better understanding of music. This blog is just in it's early stages so I'm looking forward to learning while Jim provides some lessons in music practicalities. HU
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Shelly Rickey is a creative illustrator and musician. She's from Mississippi but resides in the Netherlands and has been travelling to ukulele festivals in Ireland, Italy, Belgium, etc... She's a member of "The Uke Box" and has taught some classes along with her partner Marko at the festivals and selling some of her creations, and hand-made musical items.
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Shelly's art I term as folk or primitive art. It is art that springs naturally from a creative spirit. It's fun and cheerful and at tmes functional. I have been interested in the handmade cigarbox instruments because they look so rustic, simple, and provide quite an awesome sound too. On Shelley's blog http://shelleyrickey.blogspot.com/ she has a homemade washbasin bass, cigar box ukuleles, and other instruments.
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In her June 2, 2009 post she has a beautiful mermaid playing the ukulele jamboree flyer and she mentions Ukulele Intervention - A ukulele workshop for aspiring ukulele players. I would liked to been there. This blog is as visualy delightful as they are creative and informative.
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Jim D'Ville has also linked up to HumbleUker and he's going to be coming to the Bay Area and teaching some classes in Playing the Ukulele by Ear at Mike DaSilva's shop in Berkeley, California. His http://playukulelebyear.blogspot.com/ blog is focused on developing a better understanding of music. This blog is just in it's early stages so I'm looking forward to learning while Jim provides some lessons in music practicalities. HU
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