JANUARY 2015 - First Instalment

Last day of January, and I see I didn't take any photos until 17th January, and this would be because I was totally absorbed in preparing our music book for our Music with Friends for this year.  I planned the first 18 songs to be a concert which hopefully we will put on in late June, then other songs to learn, plus  Carols  and Christmas songs for the end of year concert.

After typing them all up and chording them with Barry's input I also printed and collated them into the folders at home.  I did them in three blocks - singers, ukulele, and experienced players,  rather than all with ukulele chords as last year.  This was a mistake as apart from taking so much time (last year I did one master and took them to the photocopy shop) I had three masters, and some people who said they wanted a copy for experienced players decided they would have the beginner ukulele copy when they saw them.  We have three new ukulele players joining us.

	MUSIC WITH FRIENDS 2015  1 Wooden Heart 2 My Shoes keep Walking Back   3 Galway Bay 4 When you wore a Tulip 5 Beautiful Dreamer   6 Lord of the Dance 7 One Day at a Time 8 Caledonia 9 Una Paloma Blanca 10 Island in the Sun 11 Give my regards to Broadway 12 Santa Lucia - Instrumental 13     { Easter Parade       { Sitting on Top of the World       {Summer Holiday 14 Blame it on the Bossa Nova 15 Walk through This World with Me 16 Be Thou My Vision 17 Blessing   More Songs 18 A World of our Own 19 We've Done us Proud 20 Lamplighting Time in the Valley 21 Whispering Hope 22 Bring Me Sunshine 23 I Saw the Light 24 I am Australian 25 Que Sera Sera 26 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 27 Wild Mountain Thyme 28 Bind us Together **** *******************   To help new members (songs from last year) 30  Whole World in His Hands 31 God on the Mountain 32 Belfast Mill 33  Red River Valley    Christmas no particular order   We Wish You a Merry Christmas Come on Ring those Bells Mary's Boy child Silent Night Aussie Jingle Bells I'll be Home with Bells On Christmas Auld Lang Syne    Silver Bells   White Christmas   O Holy Night   Joy to the World   O Come All Ye Faithful   Hark the Herald Angels Sing   Christmas in Killarney   Holly Jolly Christmas   Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

DECEMBER 2014 REMEMBERED

December 2014 was so busy with all the music commitments, the Aged Care concerts, participating in local Carol Evenings with St Marks Singers, and all the practices, our three Sundays playing in Church, and the main one for us, our Music with Friends Strum and Singalong Christmas Concert. We started the group meeting two Saturdays a month and the Finale for the year went off even better than we ever imagined. We ended the year with 24 participants, ukuleles, guitars, mandolins and one violin player, and others who do not play but join in the singing.  Fifty plus attended our concert and we concluded with a lovely Christmas Morning Tea.

Our performers

Our audience.

We had planned on having a quiet Christmas, going camping for a few days, as family work or live a long way away.   I didn't feel up to having friends over as in the past few years. However we just stayed home and quietly caught up with ourselves.

With love and Blessings,
Jan