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  • Uke Heads

    For the past 18 months or so, I’ve been involved in this amazing Uke Heads recording project with James Hill and today is the day that our album is finally officially released into the world!… Read more

  • Cyberlele Orchestra Weekend – It’s a wrap!

    It’s been 6 weeks since the Cyberlele Orchestra Weekend already. Over the course of that weekend we worked on three pieces that we have put together in virtual performances. Our video launch and final wrap… Read more

  • Cyberlele Orchestra Weekend starts tomorrow!

    Update: If you’re registered for this workshop, the sheet music and listening tracks are now posted. We’re ready for a full weekend of virtual music making! There are still a few spots left if you’re… Read more

  • Mon village du bout du monde

    About the same time that we went into lockdown last March, we lost my dad’s big sister to cancer. Yesterday was her funeral, almost 5 months later and this week, her ashes will be brought… Read more

  • Virtual Orchestra Fun

    Last month I tried my hand at creating this first video montage for The Ukulele Orchestra of Toronto with Eve Goldberg using a trial version of Final Cut Pro X. I had a great time… Read more

  • Papillon, tu es volage

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  • My First SoundSlice: La chanson des blés d’or

    I’ve been working on a particular family project for awhile and this is a song I really wanted to include. It’s an old french classic whose lyrics were written by Frédéric Doria (1841-1900) and by… Read more

  • Pussywillows, Cat-tails

    Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful mom! This Gordon Lightfoot original from his record, ‘Did She Mention My Name’, was released in 1968 which is the same year she became a mom.  She had this… Read more

  • À la claire fontaine

    If you know me, you know I like to incorporate French music into my classes as often as I can. One of my current obsessions has been collecting and recording songs from my grandmother, that… Read more

  • Just when I had started teaching again…

    I had just gotten into a great groove. I had a few private students coming for lessons regularly and I even got to use a perfect meeting space in our condo for my small group.… Read more

  • The Love Handels with ‘La réjouissance’

    My colleagues and I collaborated on a video and this is our ukulele “unsemble” performance of ‘La réjouissance, from the Royal Fireworks’, by G.F. Handel, and the arrangement, by James Hill, was published here, in… Read more

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