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A Minnesota and Area Ukulele Weekend Celebration
A Get Together for all area ukulele players (or want-to-be players) - Workshops, Jams, Sing-Alongs, Food, Lodging - All skill levels - Beginner lessons! See bottom of this page to be added to email notification list.
A Get Together for all area ukulele players (or want-to-be players) - Workshops, Jams, Sing-Alongs, Food, Lodging - All skill levels - Beginner lessons! See bottom of this page to be added to email notification list.
TWO Festivals - One ticket! - The Great Minnesota Uke Gathering (GMUG) and the Minnesota Bluegrass Fall Jam (MBFJ) are included with one festival ticket! Held at the Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West in Plymouth, Minnesota.
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The Minnesota Bluegrass Fall Jam is a three-day indoor music festival featuring regional bands performing bluegrass, old-time stringband, and related forms of acoustic music.
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Click Logo for Minnesota Bluegrass Fall Jam Website
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The Great Minnesota Uke Gathering is part of the Minnesota Bluegrass Fall Festival. It is ukulele workshops, jams and concerts featuring the Canote Brothers, Lil’ Rev and more!
Together, the "Great Minnesota Uke Gathering" and the “Minnesota Bluegrass Fall Jam" give beginner to advanced ukulele players a venue with top-notch facilities. Whether you are a ukulele, banjolele, banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, fiddle or other acoustic player, this is a musician's dream! Players, jammers and performers will keep the rooms ringing with music until the wee hours.
Together, the "Great Minnesota Uke Gathering" and the “Minnesota Bluegrass Fall Jam" give beginner to advanced ukulele players a venue with top-notch facilities. Whether you are a ukulele, banjolele, banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, fiddle or other acoustic player, this is a musician's dream! Players, jammers and performers will keep the rooms ringing with music until the wee hours.
The Great Minnesota Uke Gathering includes -
The Canote Brothers
- Ukulele workshops and concert!
Who are the Canote Brothers? From their website http://canote.com
GENETICS ON PARADE! Years ago in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant, we received our favorite cookie fortune of all time. It was one word: TWINS! Since twin babyhood, we have taken advantage of our matching genetics: as Christmas elves tap dancing our way around a wishing well in the first grade, to our thirteen year stint as the affable radio side-kicks on NPR’s Sandy Bradley’s Potluck.
We are proud to think of ourselves as links in the chain of musical brother duets like the Stanley Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, Sam and Kirk Magee or the Everlys. But we are always amazed by the possibilities of a fiddle and a guitar, (and those genetically matched voices). While we have one foot firmly planted in the traditions of American Roots music, we certainly have an ear tuned to the novel and the quirky – as one reviewer put it, “Their songs all have the ring of cock-eyed classics!”
GENETICS ON PARADE! Years ago in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant, we received our favorite cookie fortune of all time. It was one word: TWINS! Since twin babyhood, we have taken advantage of our matching genetics: as Christmas elves tap dancing our way around a wishing well in the first grade, to our thirteen year stint as the affable radio side-kicks on NPR’s Sandy Bradley’s Potluck.
We are proud to think of ourselves as links in the chain of musical brother duets like the Stanley Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, Sam and Kirk Magee or the Everlys. But we are always amazed by the possibilities of a fiddle and a guitar, (and those genetically matched voices). While we have one foot firmly planted in the traditions of American Roots music, we certainly have an ear tuned to the novel and the quirky – as one reviewer put it, “Their songs all have the ring of cock-eyed classics!”
Lil’ Rev
- Ukulele workshops, jam and concert!
- "Listen to this! Lil Rev is great!" - Pete Seeger.
- "A Ukulele and Harmonica Wizard" - Elderly Instruments.
- Lil Rev is regarded as one of the most sought after ukulele performers in the country U.S.
- All NEW GMUG Lil Rev workshops!
Information - Contact - greatmnukegathering@icloud.com
Twin Cities Ukulele Club Email List - Click here to be added to this email list, and you will receive information about all Twin Cities Ukulele Club events, including GMUG. Just add the subject "Add me to the Twin Cities Ukulele Club Email List." Be sure to add your first and last name.
Twin Cities Ukulele Club Email List - Click here to be added to this email list, and you will receive information about all Twin Cities Ukulele Club events, including GMUG. Just add the subject "Add me to the Twin Cities Ukulele Club Email List." Be sure to add your first and last name.
GMUG is Dedicated to Jim Whitney
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From the beginning, Jim was a great supporter of GMUG, both from a planning and financial standpoint. Being modest, Jim insisted that he not be given the public credit he deserved, so most had no idea he was involved. When I needed some ideas about what we should do at GMUG or what he thought was a good idea and would work, I called or emailed Jim. He was my "behind the scenes" advisor.
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And, Jim was the one who funded a great deal of what we did. We had kind of an informal agreement that I would let him know what our financial needs were. Without any credit, he often came up with the money that made GMUG happen. Without Jim’s generosity and support of the ukulele community, GMUG would not have happened. Jim passed away shortly after Thanksgiving in 2017. It is way overdue to publicly say, "thanks Jim! We miss you!" - Tony Anthonisen