Can you believe it — Colorfest is right around the corner! Bring your Colorfest songbook (the projector won’t be used) and music stand. This will be a “dry run” practice performance. We’ve been sounding great so this final practice session should go very smoothly. As always, newcomers and beginners of all ages are always welcomed […]
NAILED IT!! We’re still riding high from a great Colorfest performance, but now it’s time to start practicing in earnest the Christmas songs we’ll be playing at the Town of Mentone Lighting of the Christmas Tree event at the Mentone Inn. We have a wonderful singalong song set for our Christmas performance, and we’ll be […]
Join the Mentone Ukes at the Mentone Inn as we celebrate the Mentone Christmas tree lighting! More details to be announced!
The Mentone Ukes will once again be gathering together —this time to play three poetic songs that reflect a snapshot in time of Americana in the South: City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman and Arlo Guthrie), King of the Road (Roger Miller), and I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams). Our opening song will […]
LET THE FUN BEGIN! Starting at our session this Saturday we will begin to finalize our Spring performance song set. This set will include some familiar songs we’ve played before but also (because we’re that good!) some new songs will be incorporated into the set. We have plenty of time to practice and the new […]
Our Spring Performance song set is just about there! We have a few more songs to try out — some new tunes and a few we’ve played before — and then we will be ready to begin practicing for our performances in earnest. The song set for our session this Saturday includes: -Blue Eyes Crying […]
WHAT WE WILL COVER: How to hold the ukulele and how to tune it; identifying parts of the ukulele; how to strum and basic strumming patterns; how to play a few chords and play a simple song. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT THE UKULELE? It is an easy instrument to learn; the nylon strings are easy […]
Our last practice session for our upcoming Christmas performances went great. Now that the pressure is off, let’s have some fun! We can play through some songs on our performance song set, but at this session we’ll add a few more easy Christmas songs for you to enjoy learning and playing during the Holiday Season. […]
Save the date! The Mentone Ukes is excited and honored to be a part of this wonderful town tradition! UPDATE! PLEASE READ: Slight change regarding our performance on Saturday, December 9th at the Town of Mentone Lighting of the Christmas Tree event to be held on the grounds of The Mentone Inn (corner of 117 […]
Join us at the library on Sunday afternoon for fellowship, refreshments, door prizes, and music by our house band, the Mentone Ukes. We will share plans for 2024 at Alabama's newest public library!
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 […]
