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Please join us Saturday, Dec 07, 2024 at 2pm for our December Holiday Tunes ukulele circle in Regina. All are welcome. The About page has details such as location, songbook, what to bring.

Check out the previous blog post or our music page for a link to the Holiday & Christmas song list.

We hope to see you there!!

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.

It’s that time again! Please join us Saturday, Nov 09 at 2pm for our November ukulele circle in Regina. All are welcome. The About page has details such as location, songbook, what to bring.

Looking forward to singing and playing with ya’ll.

Please join us Saturday, Oct 12 at 2pm for our October ukulele circle in Regina. All are welcome. The About page has details such as location, songbook, what to bring.

We hope to see you!!

We meet on the second Saturday of every month, 2-4pm. Please see our About Page for location, maps, songbooks, and more.

Our next few circles:
– October 12th
– Nov 09th
– Dec 14th

We’ll continue meeting on the second Saturdays in 2025.

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!

Due to COVID-19 and the need to minimize contact with others, the circle scheduled for April 7 at Sawchyn Guitars is cancelled.

I’ll miss meeting up with all of you, but your health has to be our top priority.

Stay safe and stay healthy!

Kendra and I have created a short survey to find out how many people know about our circle and what we can do to improve it.

If you have a few minutes, I’d appreciate it if you could fill it out.

All results are anonymous.

• 2020 Queen City Ukes Survey

Here’s the second round of gibberish songs; great for those of us who struggle to remember the words.

• Do Wah Diddy Diddy — Manfred Mann (1964)
• Skinnamarink — Feist & Piantadosi (1910), Sharon, Lois & Bram (1978)
• Mah Nà Mah Nà (Mahna Mahna) — Piero Umiliani (1968), The Muppet Show (1969), Cake (2002)
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious — Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke (1964)

Nathan sent in a bonus song!

• Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) — Barry Mann (1961)

And I found a few more from our song book.

• * Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell (1970)
• The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em) — The Greg Kihn Band (1981)
• * Brown Eyed Girl — Van Morrison (1967)
• Dance Me To The End Of Love — Leonard Cohen (1984)
• Don’t Worry, Be Happy — Bobby McFerrin (1988)
• From Me To You — The Beatles (1963)
• * Ghost Riders in the Sky — Stan Jones (1948), Burl Ives (1949), Bing Crosby (1949), Gene Autry (1949), Johnny Cash (1979)