Ukuleles

Refreshments will be available on the day, as too will activities including a tug of war, axe throwing, dry stone walling, willow weaving, with performances from Elizabethan dancers and ukuleles.

Clay Elementary School – Kristy Lott, Music, funds will be used to purchase a portable sound system, wireless mic, picks and straps so that they are not setting ukes (Ukuleles) on the floor or ground between songs.

The ukuleles played by Formby, whose other hits included Leaning On A Lamp-Post, could each fetch up to £15,000 in the online sale on Thursday.

Both artists of the world, Ward and Swedberg have embraced the ukulele as “the people’s instrument,” and perform a variety of genres – all through their ukuleles.

Eva Greeler (right) and Rayne Anseeuw, sixth-graders at Cuyuna Range Elementary School, paint their ukuleles during class with technology and innovation teacher Allison Larsen.

Saturday featured many performances, workshops, vendors, a raffle and ukuleles for sale at Steamboat Landing.

In addition to donating 150 instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, violins, drums and portable keyboards, Sun Life has also created a series of videos to assist with the use, care and enjoyment of the instruments.

Then ukuleles started to strum and happy faces started to sing.

Construction Ukuleles are generally made of wood, though variants have been composed partially or entirely of plastic or other materials.

D6-tuning is said by some to bring out a sweeter tone in some ukuleles, generally smaller ones.

Less common are the sopranino (also called piccolo, bambino, or "pocket uke") bass, and contrabass ukuleles.

Typically, ukuleles have a figure-eight body shape similar to that of a small acoustic guitar.