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10.00—10.30am Welcome Session Meet your presenters, instructions for the day and all in strum
10.30 –11.30am Ukulele Begins with C Margaret Crichton
11.40—12.40pm Travis Picking for Fun &
World Domination Dan McEoin
12.40—2.00pm LUNCH & Whiteboard Concert Nicki Johnson & Craig Barrie
2.00—3.00pm Youth Ukes Aaron Silver
3.10—4.10pm Song Writing Workshop (Song of the Century– The Game Show)
Nicki Johnson & Craig Barrie
4.20—4.30pm Finish and Wrap Up Kerry Clarke
4.30—5.00pm Fancy Dress Fiesta Finale All
Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82650505063
For Zoom instructions please turn to the rear of this program
10.30 –11.30am Ukulele Begins with C Margaret Crichton
Is this you?
You’re starting to think you’re getting the hang of tuning your uke – most of the time!
You’re reasonably familiar with the chords C, F and G7.
Sound comes out when you strum the strings – sort of!
If you answered yes, or even maybe to any of those questions, then Margaret’s beginner’s workshop is for you. Join the class and get some more confidence, some new chords and some strumming tips. Play along to a couple of songs, secure in the knowledge that the only ones who can hear your playing are you and the cat – or dog, or teddy bear.
Come along and have some fun!
11.40—12.40pm Travis Picking for Fun & World Domination Dan McEoin
The Travis Pick is an essential tool in any acoustic musicians skill set.
From a very simple foundation, the variations and permutations of a Travis Pick are nearly endless. Just like playing the ukulele, you can reach initial success in learning a basic Travis Pick in under 10 minutes and then spend a lifetime improving on that initial success.
We are going to look at the most basic 4 string Travis Pick, build that up with some simple variations, add a few not so common chords to our skill base and take on one of the most iconic examples of Travis Picking in main-stream music—”Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac.
Hope to see you there.
12.40—2.00pm LUNCH & Whiteboard Concert Nicki Johnson & Craig Barrie
All welcome! Bring your sarnies and a cuppa. Sign up opens 8.00pm, Thursday August 2020 contact [email protected]
2.00—3.00pm Youthkulele—Play the Uke like a cool person Aaron Silver
This workshop will be heaps of fun and is designed to get young people playing chords and songs on the ukulele quickly and like a cool person.
If you’ve never played a ukulele before or if you already know a few ukulele chords – even if you’re a profes-sional ukulele player* – this workshop is for you!
This online workshop will feature short explanations and a lot of playing. You will learn about holding a ukulele, making chord shapes, strumming and MUCH MUCH MORE!
3.10—4.10pm Song Writing Workshop (Song of the Century– The Game Show) Nicki Johnson & Craig Barrie
Join Nicki and Craig to get into the groove and unchain your melodies. In one fun-fuelled hour we’ll navigate the landscape of lyric, melody and groove on an amazing race to that fabled city of song. Spin the wheel, join in the fun—everyone’s a winner on Soooooong of the Century!
ALL WORKSHOP MATERIALS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM
Dan MacEoin
Musician and Workshop Facilitator
Dan has been a student of music, theatre and circus for over three decades. He has been teaching these skills to primary school students for over two of those decades. He is currently writing this and feeling sort of old. The ukulele is a fantastic instrument with which to teach music theory. The students don't even realize they are doing work. They are too busy having fun and achieving a feeling of success. It is one of the few instruments that an absolute beginner can pick up and be playing a song off the radio (maybe not perfectly, but at least recogniza-bly) after just ten minutes of practice. That instant success is what keeps people in-terested in learning more. He is currently the music teacher at Emerald Primary School, the Chairperson of the Hills Ukulele Festival and the President of AUTLA (Australian Ukulele Teachers & Leaders As-sociation). The Travis Pick is an essential tool in any acoustic musician’s skill set. From a very simple foundation, the variations and permutations of a Travis Pick are nearly endless. Just like playing the ukulele, you can reach initial success in learning a basic Travis Pick in under 10 minutes and then spend a lifetime improving on that initial success. We are going to look at the most basic 4 string Travis Pick, build that up with some sim-ple variations, add a few not so common chords to our skill base and take on one of the most iconic examples of Travis Picking in mainstream music - ‘Landslide’ by Fleetwood Mac. Hope to see you there.
Maragret Crichton
Musician and Workshop Facilitator
Margaret Crichton has been leading choirs since being introduced to the CMVic model in 2004. She has been involved in music making for many years, performing solo and with bands in genres such as folk and pop, as well as occasionally teaching harp and guitar. She also plays and teaches ukulele.
Margaret plays harp, guitar and dabbles in other instruments, is a member of De-lia's Friends, an English Country Dance band and an occasional member of Harp-ers Bizarre. 2013 saw her take up the challenge of the Regional Activist Support Team Co-ordinator and Mentorship Co-ordinator positions with Community Music Victoria.Qualifications & affiliations: B.A. Dip Ed; Leader of the 2014 festival choir at Newstead Live!; President of Bennettswood Neighbourhood House
Nicki Johnson & Craig Barrie
Musicians and Workshop Facilitators Award winning songwriters, Nicki and Craig sing about being human, losing yourself and finding your place. Their folk duo “All the way home” paints sto-ries in delicate harmony, framed within an acoustic backdrop of guitar and ukulele. They have run song writing, singing and ukulele workshops at many festivals including the Whittlesea Uke Muster 2019 and most recently the community music Victoria online music camp at Grantville – see programme
https://cmvic.org.au/whats-on/events/cmvic-music-camp-2020-save-the-date?
https://www.allthewayhomemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/allthewayhomemusic/
Aaron Silver
Music Teacher Aaron Silver is the Music teacher at Wodonga Primary School in North East Victo-ria. He is passionate about making music fun and loves teaching his students (all 900 of them!) how to enjoy playing the ukulele.
Outside of teaching in the classroom Aaron has a passion for promoting creativity and the Arts in the wider community. He is an organising committee member of the Turramurra Folk Music Bush Camp (held annually in Deans Marsh, Victoria) and currently runs leads the Yackandandah Folk Festival Choir.
Kerry Clarke
Musician, Tutor and Muster Organiser
Kerry is a community choir and singing leader with a passion for getting every-one singing together. She has been leading community choirs and singing groups for over 10 years and currently runs two groups. A hundred years ago she gradu-ated from Melbourne State College with a Bachelor of Education in Music and Drama. Kerry believes the joy and power of singing and playing music together cannot be overrated. She is a strong advocate for participatory music in communi-ty and community driven music! Kerry lives in the bush on the northern edge of Melbourne with lots of wildlife.
