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 […]
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
