Great Music! Great local businesses! A great cause! Read on...
With the generous help of High Strung Violins and Guitars of Durham, we challenged local musicians to break out of the confines of their normally gigantic instruments and have fun experimenting with the versatile, forgiving, beautiful, goofy, sad, bright, recession-proof, every person's instrument that is the UKULELE!
The result? LET'S GET SMALL!: A Ukulele Challenge and Benefit Concert! It'll be an 8 act line-up of fancy and not-so-fancy panted musicians from the area, each plying their trade to "The Tiny Art" at the Pinhook on Friday May15th, in what promises to be a hot damn grab bag of genres, original tunes, cover tunes, original cover tunes, and other noises. There will be ukes of all kinds, accompanying instruments of all flavors, the requisite smattering of animal sounds and costume changes, and if all goes well, the best taco truck ever!
The line up includes:
The Durham Ukulele Orchestra
Neven J. Carswell
Peter Holsapple
Erie Choir
The Koyanagi Sisters
Persona Au Gratin
Servant Hearts
The Wigg Report
This concert is being held to help out an amazing organization called Ukuleles for Peace . They run a small non-profit children's ukulele orchestra based in Central Israel that brings together Arab Palestinian kids and Jewish kids, with the broader purpose of fostering a sense of connection and shared community between Jewish and Palestinian families in the region. We're asking for suggested donations at the door of $5 for this event, but anything you can give would be greatly appreciated.
So come on out to the Pinhook on Friday May 15! Support your local businesses! Support a good cause! And get small with your bad selves!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for supporting UFP. I'm a local musician (Chatham Co.) and a friend of Paul Moore of UFP. Can't make it to your show, 'cause I'm playing that night in Pittsboro... but break a string!
Doc Oakroot
Thanks Doc! We broke a few!
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