ukuleles | Daily Ukulele: E Huli Mākou

Hey folks! This is me coming to you from the other side of the Festival of Aloha World Record attempt. We didn't quite break the bank, but it was a really great hour or so of ukulele awesomeness -- if you ever get a chance to fill up a public space with ukulele players, it's a blast! This is the song we were taught, and Lanialoha Lee was a great, great teacher. Here's the sheet music, but try it just from the video; it was a new experience for me, and certainly the first time I'd really managed singing and playing at the same time.

For the interested, some pictures from the event!

Waiting to go in and be counted. I arrived about 20 minutes after gates were opened and I was #230.

Our leaders (Lanialoha Lee, Jason Arimoto and one other fellow) practicing/warming up in the Welles Park gazebo, which is gorgeous.

Requisite adorable child! There were lots of kids in the audience participating, actually.

This doesn't quite show how many people were there; I'm bad at estimating numbers, but while it wasn't enough to beat Sweden's 1300-something, there were definitely a couple hundred people there.

We did it!

And this is my camera's fault, which is aggravating, but I kind of like it blurry, so there you go.