THE HEALDSBURG UKULELE CLUB
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For over 20 years, the Healdsburg Ukulele Club has met to play the Hawaiian ukulele in Healdsburg, a famed wine and food destination an hour and a half north of San Francisco. Influenced by the sights and sounds of their charming wine country town in Sonoma County, California, the Healdsburg Ukulele Club plays songs across the decades in many musical genres.
The Club meets on Friday afternoons, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Room 8 at the Healdsburg Community Center, making the happiest music they can from this small but mighty 4-stringed Hawaiian instrument.
The Club spent decades meeting weekly for informal strumming and jam sessions, and occasional performances at local senior communities. Since 2023, the Club "upped its game" to form a performance group. We brought in a delightful Italian vocal coach and leader to help us grow as players, singers and performers.
In the first hour, the Club holds a more casual strumming session playing out of the Yellow and Blue Daily Ukulele books where beginners will feel comfortable. In our second hour, we have an optional performance group session for our more advanced players and singers. The performance group has performed many gigs around the community, including the Sonoma County Fair, the Healdsburg Art Fair, the holiday Sip and Shop, Prunepacker baseball games, and of course entertaining at many senior communities in our neck of Sonoma County.
The Club welcomes both new and more experienced ukulele players in a supportive atmosphere. We also welcome singers, bass uke players and percussionists. Look forward to weekly sessions, potlucks, holiday parties and field trips to see ukulele performers.
Our vocal coach and performance leader is Deborah Lenzi Taylor. Our leaders are Gail Ginder and Rachelle Chong. Our treasurer is Tina Ius, and our chief roadie is Daniel Reid.
Click the “Contact Us” button to get more information from Gail Ginder (gailginder@gmail.com), or email Rachelle at hbgukeclub@gmail.com.
To find out more about our new Ukes4Peace movement, click on the Ukes4Peace link in upper right menu, and email ukes4peaceca@gmail.com