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); […]
Jerry and I are so looking forward to seeing you all at the Mentone Ukes Performance THIS Saturday, May 18th at the Little River Arts Council Big Art Pop-Up mini-festival on the grounds of The Mentone Inn. We play once again on the totally new and very cool Make Your Mark on Mentone Stage. Players, […]
Bring your whiskers. Bring your banjolele. Be prepared for some good pickin’ and strummin’! I’ve been wanting to do this session for a long time! We’ve got nine great songs from the movie soundtrack. Gospel, Bluegrass, Traditional. You name it! If they were good enough for George Clooney they’re certainly good enough for the Mentone […]
Reminder! No Mentone Ukes session this Saturday, June 8th. We are performing at a get-together for a church senior group that afternoon/evening. And be aware that GREAT THINGS are in the works for our next regular session on June 22nd! It will be lots of fun and informative, too. More info on that session as […]
With Debra suffering from multiple bites from her extremely well-mannered and gentle 20 year old cat Jake, she and Jerry haven’t been able to practice all that much this week. Saturday’s session will be an amalgamation of songs that we’re practicing for our Fall Festival performance as well as some feel good summertime songs. We’ll […]
Join us this Saturday for a truly unique and exciting session! Hank Allen is one of our very talented pickers. He will be demonstrating flat picking on the ukulele and go over the differences between flat and finger picking. Hank will have extra picks of various styles for anybody that wants one. We will start […]
This Saturday, August 3rd will be an epic performance by the House Band of the Moon Lake Library (aka the “Ambassadors of Joy” — the Mentone Ukes) as we play for an extended period of time while the library remains open to the public. It is a rare opportunity for you to come and support […]
Along with a few familiar songs, members Romey Atchley, Sandra Monk, and Lila Roberts will each demo and then introduce a song that they selected for the group to learn. Romey will introduce “Take ‘Em Away” by Old Crow Medicine Show. We love playing Wagon Wheel and this should be an exciting new song to […]
Join us for a day of celebration and fun as we “play for our dinner” at the annual Veteran’s Day picnic hosted by the Mentone Post 215 (195 Cove Road, Mentone). We will play from our awesome Fall 2024 Song Set (bring your music). Chairs will be provided. Arrive when you can and leave when […]
Sunday, December 8th at the library from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM. Arrive when you can, leave if you must. We will play from our Christmas 2024 Song Set. Romey Atchley will be our leader. As we’ve done in the past, this will be an informal and fun time for us to entertain the library patrons since […]
