Join us for our 2nd meetup of the month.

SPRING FORWARD with ELLEN BLOOM

In honor of Spring 2025, we will sing songs about sunshine, rain, bugs, blue skies and more! This is a time to make music together to impact our mood and well-being. We are here to reduce stress, anxiety and promote emotional expression! Maybe we will learn a few ukulele tips and tricks too!

• Ain’t No Bugs on Me
• Blue Skies
• I’ll Follow the Sun
• Laugh And Be Happy
• On The Sunny Side of The Street
• Raining In My Heart
• Singing In the Rain
• Stormy Monday
• Sunny
• We’ll Sing in The Sunshine
• You Are My Sunshine
• Zip A Dee Doo Dah

All the songs are in PDF form so there is no need to bring either the blue or yellow books. The PDF will be posted at the top of our FB page and right here.

9 AM to 9:45 AM –This week we will have warm-ups and ensemble discussion starting at 9:00am

Saturday is the kickoff of the Plucking Strummers Songwriters Workshop.

Bring a song you are working on, a partial song, fragment, idea, or just listen.

Lars will present an introduction to his future workshops on song composition and performance techniques.

9:50 AM to 10:00 AM -Breaktime, and a chance to mingle and share snacks and refreshments.

10:00 to 11:15 AM – This will be our classic strum session, performing a list of songs chosen by our guest leader.

11:15 AM to 11:30 – Second Breaktime.

11:30 AM to 12:00 Individual performance time! I really hope we can get many people to sign up. I would love to see some of our new Strummers stretch their wings. Then we need to pack up and exit the building before Noon.

Disclaimers:

Masks are no longer mandatory, however, if you feel more comfortable wearing one, please do.

It is very important to the church that we have completely exited the building and cleaned up behind us before the next group arrives. So, depending on the number of performance signups, we may or may not get to all of them. Any member who signs up but does not get to perform will be moved to the top of the list for the next meeting.

Any member who wishes to be a guest presenter/teacher needs to contact me the week before the meeting, let me know what you plan to present and provide me early copies of any material you will be handing out.

As there are only a few music stands readily available to us, if you have a music stand, please bring it with you.

The address of C.C.L.A. is 3852 Edenhurst Ave Los Angeles CA 90039

Let’s have some ukulele fun! Can’t wait to see everyone there!!!!!!!

Gene