Our Christmas performances are now a part of the Mentone Ukes growing history! And what a success they were! Join us at our last regular session of the year where we play a couple of our new Christmas songs but primarily focus on a small selection of the songs we’ve enjoyed playing this year. During […]
We got some great songs planned for this session that will make you forget it’s bitterly cold outside! Our warm-up song will be Amazing Grace, then we will review a simple fingerpicking pattern for this song and we’ll play it again as we familiarize ourselves with it. We will also play through Wagon Wheel, just […]
It’s World Play Your Ukulele Day!! To celebrate, the Mentone Ukes has a great line up for this special session on Saturday, February 3rd. Our warm-up song will be This Land is Your Land by Woodie Guthrie. Two new songs will be introduced. Our own Lila Roberts will demo a classic uplifting hymn entitled Till […]
John Prine. Need we say more? One of the greatest songwriters of his generation, we will introduce two of his songs, Angel from Montgomery and Paradise, at this session. But first, our own Halee O’Dell will demo a contemporary Christian worship song called “Yes I Will” by Vertical Worship that she has been practicing. Our […]
If so, come on over to the Mentone Uke’s next session on March 16th. The setlist is built from our Mentone Ukes Collection of cowboy songs paying homage to the rich history of American Country and Bluegrass tunes. Willie Nelson is a crowd favorite and iconic figure of the genre. We will learn the well-known […]
It’s time to get ourselves ready for our upcoming Spring performances at the Farmers Market at Mentone and the MERF luncheon! But first, our own Romey Atchley will demo “Lasagna” by Al Yankovic, a parody based on the melody and tempo of the Ritchie Valens’ song “LaBamba.” This song has a fun strumming pattern and […]
We are creating an awesome Spring Song Set for our upcoming performances at the MERF luncheon and Farmer’s Markets (and who knows where else)! At this last practice session on April 13 at 1:00 PM CT we will play through the following songs: City of New Orleans; You Plant Your Fields; Sweet Caroline; Fly Me […]
Reminder: Our MERF luncheon performance is scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th. Thus far I have the following names of folks planning to play. There’s plenty of time, but please do let me know if your name is not listed and you’re intending to join us for that event:Hank AKelleyJerry and DebraRayRomeyLilaJanetDon
Meet at the NEW stage on the grounds of Mentone Inn around 10:30. We will begin playing around 11:00 and play for as we'd like, probably until 12:30. We will draw songs from our Spring 2024 Song Set. Bring your ukulele and tuner. Chairs will be provided at the venue.
Join us this Saturday, April 27th at 1:00 PM CT at Moon Lake Library for a special session that will explore a few songs written and/or sung by women, or other songs that speak to or are about women (relationships, love, family, longing) that we haven’t played for a while: Brown-Eyed Girl, Sweet Caroline, Circle […]
Calling all players: This Friday, May 3rd we will perform at the Mentone Farmer's Market (3-5 pm)!! We have an awesome Spring 2024 Song Set. The more the merrier! Invite your family and friends to come on out and support our local growers and—of course—the Mentone Ukes!
We’ve got a great line up of songs to play at our session on Saturday! Some are familiar tunes we haven’t played for a while (Sloop John C and Somewhere Over the Rainbow); some songs were recently introduced that we’re still learning (Wagon Wheel, Bye Bye Love, I Can Help, and You Plant Your Fields); […]
