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The popular uke/folk band The Nukes will headline this year’s Mahurangi Ukulele Festival at the Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday, April 2.
The day of workshops will be for ukulele players, singers, songwriters and lovers of music. It will run from 10am to 4pm, with registration at 9.30am.
Ukulele teacher Dianne Morgan, from the Jade River Ukes, will take a workshop on sea shanties featuring The Wellerman and an original Riff Queen Sea Shanty. This will be followed by NZ blues legend, Paul Jonson, who will lead a new workshop called Blues, Boogie and Ragtime.
All workshops are suitable for beginners and advanced. Paul will also have his trade table with up to 30 ukes, tune up tools and uke accessories.
The Nukes will teach a free workshop for school children at 1pm, followed by a workshop introducing a new book of original material with lyrics and tablature to two new recordings – Henry’s Waltz and a piece based on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Promoter Simon Vare says all workshops will be fun and engaging, and participants will take away workshop resources to help them apply their new knowledge to their playing.
The day will wind-up with a public concert by The Nukes starting at 4pm.
Vare describes The Nukes as part vaudeville, part rat-pack, part musical car crash.
“They are a talented trio that never fails to deliver an engaging mix of humour and originality that audiences of all ages will love,” he says.
The band says it has been a while since they visited Warkworth and they are looking forward to the show.
All day passes and separate Nukes concert tickets are available from Eventfinda, the Mahurangi Matters office at 17 Neville Street, the Nukes website and jaderiverukes@gmail.com
CD & Ticket Giveaway
Mahurangi Matters has a signed The Nukes CD and double ticket to the show at 4pm to give away. To be in the draw, email editor@localmatters.co.nz with The Nukes in the subject line. Don’t forget to include your name and contact phone number. Competition closes on March 24 at 9am.
