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For July 12th and August 10th, 2025, we will move to some outside jamming. Rolf has sorted us out and provided details:

When: 2pm start time until 4pm.

Where: green space at the Wascana boat launch to Willow Island, near the parking lot at the end of Broadway
50°26’15.6″N 104°36’31.1″W
https://goo.gl/maps/XRbj1ZMcDsdNZdtD6

Format: This will be a Kanikapila/Uke Circle where we sit in a circle and take turns calling songs. Please select your selection of up to six songs from the QC Ukes songbook. You are welcome to call or perform songs from any other source. If possible please post your selected songs early in the comments of our FB event page, so we can be prepared.

What to bring: you, your uke(s), chair, music stand, data-enabled device if you wish to access the songbook or other songbook(s), tuner, water, other uke players …

We hope that the weather will be perfect. Please spread the word to other uke players you may know so that we can make a good noise.

See you soon, Rolf 

As usual, all are welcome – any age, any ability from total newbie to uke-star. Please invite friends.

Our June circle is on the first Saturday this month, rather than our usual 2nd Saturday. We’ll meet to sing and strum on Saturday, June 7th at 2pm. All are welcome – any age, any ability from total newbie to uke-star. Please invite friends.

The  About  page has details such as location, songbook, what to bring. Really, all you need is a ukulele.
Please note: all outdoor shoes must be removed, all year long. You’re welcome to bring indoor shoes / slippers.

Reminder: Our June circle has moved to the first Saturday – June 7th at the usual time and location – Ruth Pawson School. 20 Weekes Cres, Regina, Saskatchewan  (click the address for a G-map pin).

Hello ukulele friends! Please mark your calendars. We have a different plan for June, July & Aug, 2025. Please check our FB page, website and newsletters for updates a week before each circle.

Our June circle has moved to the first Saturday – June 7th at the usual time and location – Ruth Pawson School. 20 Weekes Cres, Regina, Saskatchewan (click the address for a G-map pin).

For July & August, we don’t have the school and will meet for an outdoor circle, unless anyone wants to host us. We’ll continue to meet on the 2nd Saturday at 2pm for the summer months. Our usual outdoor spot is in Wascana Park; more on that closer to the dates.

Please join us to sing and strum on Saturday, April 12 at 2pm for the ukulele circle in Regina. All are welcome. Please invite friends.

The About page has details such as location, songbook, what to bring. Please bring indoor shoes / slippers and a warm sweater as our space can be a little cool.

Our fearless & fun Social Media manager, Rolf, has shared a song right from Hawaii. “For this month I brought us a wonderful Hawaiian song to play “E Huli Makou”. This song is popular for teaching first hula movements to children (and tourists), and the video is a nice version of the song and a class that has the moves right.“

If you wish to prepare ahead of time, here’s where to find tab & video:
– Our QCU Facebook Page has the pdf and link to video
– Song & Hula dance video – YouTube (no pressure to dance at our circle – LOL!!)
– You can download the song HERE. Just click “Download” on the right; no need to create an account. Then either save it to your device or print it off. 

Thanks Rolf!!

Looking forward to singing and playing with ya’ll.

Let’s sing some holiday songs and Christmas carols at our Dec 07 circle! (Please note this is the 1st Sat in Dec, not our usual 2nd Saturday.)

Our 2024 Holiday / Christmas Season Songbook (pdf) is mostly thanks to the BUGs group in Ottawa. We added a few songs our group has enjoyed in the past, as an addendum.

What’s fancy? You can click on a song title in the table of contents and it will take you right to that song in the book. On most of the song pages, you can click “back to song list” to get back to the ToC. No more searching and scrolling!

What’s not fancy? The addendum (which is still kinda fancy), was copied from my uke binder and has my scribbles. Hopefully you’ll find them helpful. 🙂 The extra songs were added in blue to the main table of contents – very unfancy but it keeps the songs in alphabetical order.

Please feel free to print your own copy of this 106 pg songbook or download it to your device. You don’t need a DropBox account – just look for the “download only” option.

As you know, the past few years have been challenging for many music circles as they rebuild, including the Queen City Ukes. Our group has been bumping around a little, in need of a new home since the fine folks at Sawchyn Guitars, our former home sweet home, retired.

We would like to extend a big thank you to the Uplands Community Association in Regina for offering us a space where we can meet to play and sing monthly! Please see our About Page for location details, our songbook and a few things to know.

Everyone of all ages and musical abilities is welcome to join us. It’s a safe and inclusive place whether you’re a complete beginner, someone comfortable with 5 chords, or an expert player.

We meet on the 2nd Saturday of every month, 2 – 4 pm.

We still aren’t able to meet in person, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get together virtually. Our friends at the Bytown Ukulele Group in Ottawa are hosting a Canada-wide Canada Day party on Zoom and we’re invited!

Ukulele club leaders from every province are each going to lead a song and I’ve been asked to represent Saskatchewan and the Queen City Ukes!

The event will take place on Zoom and there should be some free spots for members of other clubs. All the details and the list of songs are on their Facebook page and website.

Thank you, Sue and Mark, for pulling this all together!

Tuesday, February 3
7 PM
Sawchyn Guitars, 2132 Dewdney Avenue

We’re going to continue the introduction to strumming patterns.

All the music in one file: (GCEA) (DGBE)

Songs include:

• You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Bob Dylan)
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World (Israel Kamakawiwo`ole)
• Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters)
• Ticket to Ride (The Beatles)
• Stuck In the Middle With You (Stealers Wheel)
• We’re Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)
• Three Little Birds (Bob Marley)
• Faith (George Michael)
• Ho Hey (The Lumineers)

That’s a lot, so if we don’t get through them all, we’ll finish them off in March. Joel also taught some finger-picking techniques. We’ll look at those in March, too.

I’m still working out some kinks and cleaning up the music, but the interactive music library is now live on the website.

• Queen City Ukes Songbook

The editor allows you to switch tuning from soprano to baritone and also switch keys. That’s helpful in case you find a song that was written for guitar.

A huge thanks to Buz over at Uke Geeks for creating this awesome tool! It’s certainly beyond anything I could ever do.

My boundless gratitude, also, to Joel Jacques and the Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) for providing me with all their music to get this library off the ground!

I still need to move all our existing music into the library so the main music page will still be around for a little while. The new version will eventually replace that one.

I would like to alter the software so it doesn’t ignore the blank lines lines between verses. If you pick any song at random, all the verses will likely run into each other. I’ve added spaces to the songs we’re playing at the next circle, but want this to be automatic.

I also want to turn on uploads so people can submit their own music to the group.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions. If you find any chords with funny numbering, let me know that, too. I’ve already fixed the broken A Major chord that we found at the last circle – you no longer have to cross your fingers to make the numbers match.

Oh, one last thing. Some songs are listed twice. That’s because BUG has a “slow jam” version that may be a bit simpler to play or include extra comments or tips. Part of my clean up is to make it more obvious which version is which.

Happy strumming!