Sounds of Sunday: Tom the Pom
Event description
Tom is a fantastic teacher and is offering 2 x workshops during the afternoon followed by a concert.
Noon-1pm Intermediate Uke Workshop (see details below)
1.30-3.00pm Beginners Workshop
Afternoon Tea
4pm-6pm Concert featuring Tom the Pom and supported by the Blue MUGS
Tom is seeking to raise funds for WIRES (Blue Mountains) and Amnesty International.
THE DETAILS
The Workshops:
Noon-1.00pm: Somewhere Over the Third Fret (Intermediate Workshop)
How to get down to the dusty end of the neck.
This workshop will help demystify chords; what they are and how we make them, and how to make them sound pretty all over the ukulele fretboard.
We will touch upon chord inversions, scales and chord shapes.
C, Am, F and G never sounded so good!
1.30-3.00pm: Beginners’ Ukulele Workshop
Get strumming on the World’s friendliest instrument.
We’ll get you playing before you know it.
Bring your own or borrow one of ours.
You may get to perform a song you've learned to kick off the concert at 4pm.
Sounds of Sunday
Sounds of Sunday is an initiative supporting local Blue Mountains artists and, as agreed with the artists, raises funds for charity.
About Tom
Tom has been leading and facilitating drumming workshops in school, businesses
and the community for nearly 20 years when he first picked up a ukulele. His love of
guitar playing ended that day as the ukulele took over.
Workshops have taken Tom to Hong Kong, Dubai, Switzerland, Portugal and all over England as well as NSW, Victoria and Queensland.
He has led workshops at The Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival, The Newcastle
Ukulele Festival, Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Launceston Ukulele Muster and the Wollongong Springstrum and more including Night Dinner of the BMUF, which is an accolade.
He is also the band leader of Samba Ninja, a batucada and Afro-Brazilian drum ensemble which has played NRL games, Mardi Gras and countless festival and events. Tom is the Vice President of AUTLA, The Australian Ukulele Leaders’ and Teachers Association.
About the Blue MUGs
We are grateful that The Blue MUGs are also supporting this concert and will also present some of their material in the concert. The Blue MUGs are a bunch of great people of different ages and from different backgrounds, who meet to play ukulele, sing together and enjoy each other’s company. They aim to bring the joy of playing the ukulele to as many people as possible and promote playing community music. Check out the Website or FB page for more information.
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