September 15, 2008

The 1st Ukulele Jamboree at Cafe de Bel

We had a fantastic crowd at Cafe de Bel in Rotterdam Noord (Holland) last Friday night at the first edition of the Ukulele Jamboree. Great Crowd, Big Fun! This monthly event is comprised of a Ukulele Intervention (a ukulele workshop for aspiring uke players) followed by a performace by a Seasoned Ukulele Artist and on some occassions, an Open Mic. The next Ukulele Jamboree will be on Oktober 4th....more about that later!

A special thanks to Rienie, Jeanette, Jyoti & Vincent, and Eric for performing at the Open Mic and of coarse to Bert & Tiek for allowing us to fill their café with about 30 ukulele players! (They are very brave folk, i love them!) Unfortunately i didn't get many photographs of the evening. (I was too busy ukuleleing, I'll do better next time) But, here are a small selection of photographs that i do have. (Click on the photograph to see a larger image)

2 comments:

Avril sur le net ou Audren à la ville... said...

It's a real pleasure to visit your blog...
I have got my firsrt ukulélé few days ago but it's quite hard to practise when you are really a beginner.
I never play a music instrument before and it's really painfull for my poor fingers. I have got a question for you. Is it possible to learn ukulélé by your own ?
Anyway I keep an eye on your blog from Paris !!!
Big kisses de la Butte aux cailles. Audren..................

Avril sur le net ou Audren à la ville... said...

Thanks Shelley for your visit on my blog and your quick answer. It is true that it's always more easier to learn with someone who knows ukulélé and give you good tips as you said than to learn on your own. When you are a beginner it's easy to have bad habits with an instrument !!!
Anyway I will try to do my best to learn more about ukulélé technics.
Big kisses from Paris.
Audren...