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Jammin' at the Dominion Pub

31 July 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles
Susan and I spent a couple of days in Toronto this week, reversing the trend of coming north during the summer. We stayed downtown for a couple of nights and walked for several miles throughout the city - Kensington, Spadina, Queen Street West, Chinatown and more - enjoying the sights and sounds of a busy, multicultural city. There were two...

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Tags: music, ukuleles, Toronto, jam 2 Comments


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Music, music everywhere

27 July 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, downtown-BIA, Music and ukuleles
Last week we had the chance to enjoy two really different types of music. Wednesday we went to the Station (aka the museum) for the weekly Jazz at the Station event. We watched Bobby Dean Blackburn, a great R&B and jazz pianist/vocalist with a drummer and two sax players. Free event, and well-attended, although Frank McNulty told me the crowd...

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Tags: Collingwood, jazz, Elvis, music 0 Comments


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A call for help, ukulele style

04 July 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Music and ukuleles
Most of you know I play the ukulele. For 40-plus years before I discovered the uke, I played the guitar. I was never very good on the guitar: my passion for making music far exceeded my technical skills. But I had a passion for playing music that has sometimes translated itself into a variety of instruments, from flutes to sitar. I've managed...

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Tags: music archive, song sheet, song book, vintage music, ukulele 0 Comments


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The real way buskers play around the world

18 June 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles, downtown-BIA, Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
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None of those buskers would be allowed to play on Collingwood's streets, because they use...

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Tags: patios, downtown, buskers, Collingwood's Municipal Madness, council 7 Comments


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Brother, I Can't Spare You the Time

16 June 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Pointless legislation, Music and ukuleles, Election 2010, downtown-BIA, Collingwood's municipal m..., Uncategorized
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime is one of the most memorable songs of the 1930s, written at the height of the Great Depression, by the son of Jewish immigrants, Yip Harburg, with music by composer - and another Jewish immigrant - Jay Gorney. It was written in 1931, and later included in a musical, New Americana, in 1932. I thought it might...

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Tags: bylaws, patios, Collingwood's Municipal Madness, council 2 Comments


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A new uke and a new site

17 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, Music and ukuleles, technology
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Spent most of last week working on Web sites, mine and a couple of contract jobs for friends. Haven't done a lot of Web-related work the last few years and I was rusty. I was struggling with some of the CSS elements, trying to remember...

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Tags: ukulele, Risa, Web design, Ian Chadwick 0 Comments


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Archiving vintage ukulele music

09 May 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles, Collingwood life, Social values
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In the two decades between the end of World War One and the start of World War Two, the ukulele was arguably the most popular musical instrument in the Western world. It was small, relatively inexpensive, and with only four strings it was relatively easy to...

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Tags: vintage music, song book, archive, song sheet, ukulele, ukelele, music score 1 Comments



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