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.