http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMn1O8AgXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39Evw6jug8

This is a lovely little tune called "Dublin Saunter" performed by 'The Uke Box' for the International Ukulele Festival in Dublin taking place on the 14th, 15th & 16th of August.

Ukulele Jamboree No.5,
The Heartbreak Edition!
Saturday Feb. 14th, Valentines Day
Café de Bel,
Gerard Scholtenstraat 61B
3035 SE Rotterdam

Come feel the Ukulele Love!...
BUT BE CAREFUL!
The heartstrings of the ukulele are bound to make you want to Fall in Love, Make Babies and/or Get a Divorce all in one night! Bring your handkerchief and a lawyer.
20:30
Ukulele Intervention, A Workshop
for Aspiring Ukulele Players.
Learn to play Heartbreak Hotel
with cool Rock 'n Roll licks!
22:00
Open Mic, Surprise Acts, &
Musical Interludes of Love
by your
Ukulele Host, The Uke Box


Click Here to view the Original Poster

We've hosted 3 Ukulele Jamborees now in Rotterdam. The last edition held on November the 8th was amazing. Started off kind of scary though. The Ukulele Intervention is supposed to start at 8:30 and at 8:15 there were about 6 people there including the Cafe personnel, a TV Camerman with a reporter and a newspaper reporter & photographer...Yikes! Nearly gave me a heart attack. But, we waited another 15 minutes and many ukulele players arrived! And actually, i think it was the busiest Ukulele Jamboree ever. Lots of new fun folks turned up! Clever folk too...during the workshop we were amazed at how quickly everybody caught on.



Ater the Intervention, Frederic Henry gave us a lovely performance. He is a very charming player. Has a really unique style and performs all of his own original compositions. Very very nice indeed. We also had a surprise guest... Bram! (He's the dude in the very handsome shirt with the playing cards on it) Bram has been playing the ukulele for all of 2 1/2 weeks now, and he played and sang us this great song about his dog. I loved it...do it again Bram!

Marko & i also did a set and had Frederic join us for the last three tunes...and you know what, we weren't half bad if i may say so myself. Most importantly the audience and participants were great fun. Thanks Ukulele Friends! We look forward to seeing you at the next Jamboree on December the 13th! (click on the images for a better view)

We made the front page news baby!
This is a shot of us joining Bosko & Honey during the saturday night concert.


We had an amazing time at the European Ukulele Festival. It was incredibly well organized. Thanks to Rigk Sauer and everyone who made it happen. Highlights were joining Bosko & Honey on stage, the performances, which were all outstanding, but i especially enjoyed Coconami, Gaetano Cappa & The Hot Potato Syncopators. Our performance at the market on Sunday was so lovely. Beautiful town square, sun shining...just perfect. The best thing about the festival though was the people. (Man, them ukulele peoples are wacky in the most beautiful way!) Hello to all of you and we look forward to seeing you all again!

Click Here to see the whole article about the absolutely amazing
European Ukulele Festival In Gros Umstad, Germany.
Or to see video of the whole event click here Films 50, 51 & 52.

A Ukulele Jamboree opening at 8pm and beginning with An Ukulele Intervention! (a ukulele workshop for beginners, starting at 8:30pm). Following that, Open Mic (9:45PM) and then a little performance (about 10:30PM) by "The Uke Box", Guaranteed To Swoon!

Friday the 12th of September at 8Pm
Cafe de Bel, Gerard Scholtenstraat 61B
See Ya There!

Last night we were rehearsing our 'Safari Song' with Bosko & Honey.
Marko's Mom & Dad were there and after a short phone call by Bertus...Roland Vonk was there too!
He has a wonderful radio program on Sunday mornings called 'Archief Rijnmond'. So, he unpacked some recording equipment and got our Safari Song on tape. Apparently, it will be broadcasted this Sunday, the 10th of August at 11am! A Very Big THANK YOU to Mr. Vonk!

To listen, go to Radio Rijnmond and then click on the button on the right hand side that says 'Listen Live'.





Roland Vonk. Vonkadelic!

Recording for Mr. Vonk.

We, The Uke Box, just got back from the Ukulele Trip of a lifetime!
We traveled to New York, Boston and Cape Cod to participate in the Ukulele Caravan and most importantly play at Craig Robertsons' CD Release Party "Houdini's Perspective"! held in Shirley, Massachusettes at the lovely BullRun Restaurant.



Good golly, i can't believe it...We shared the stage with our own ukulele heroes! We also had some wild "traffic-jam sessions" travelin' from city to city with John Kavanagh, Sonic Uke, and Tom Harker.



Also on the Caravan were Patsy Monteleone and his lovely lady Heidi, Robert Wheeler, Greg Hawkes, The Moonlighters, Victoria Vox, and Mark Occhionero...just to mention a few.



As soon as i gather more photographs and video i'll be sure to post them. Check out my Blogspot for future Caravan updates and other fun stuff.



A special thanks to Cecily Miller in Boston, Mary Martin of the White Horse Inn in Cape Cod and Jason Tagg in Manhatten for their assistance and generous hospitality.