Wednesday Ukestra

19 August 2026

6pm-8pm

at the Cricketers Arms Hotel (Cooks Hill)

All of our ukestras are designed to be welcoming and forgiving for people new to the ukulele. You won’t always get everything, but given time, self forgiveness, resilience, a sense of humour and a love of, and curiosity for, music, then you’ll be fine.

Don’t be scared, don’t rehearse unnecessarily. Mark will select from these songs, but in no way will we EVER get through all of these songs in a session. Depending upon who shows up, Mark will bespokely tailor the set list to try to meet the needs of every single person who shows up. (Well, some of them). Each song is just an opportunity to practise some sort of skill, chord progression, or riff. Remember, single thumb strums are next to godliness.

Set 1

1. Memphis Tennessee
2. All My Loving – vale Johnny Young
3. Real Thing (The) – Johnny Young/Russell Morris
4. Non, je ne regrette rien – Edith Piaf 
5. Lookin Out My Back Door CCR 
6. Falling Slowly
7. The Letter
8. Bar Song – Tipsy (A Bar Song) – Shahboozey
9. She’s-Not-There
10. It Must Have Been Love Roxette   ||||    It Must Have Been Love Riff
11. Please read the letter
12. Now is the Hour (Po Atarau – original Maori version with music)    |||||  Now is the Hour (Dr Uke’s heavy jazzie version in D)
13. Margaritaville Jimmy Buffet
14. Wild World – Yusuf Islam
15. Mack the Knife – in C        ||||   Mack the Knife – F with modulations
16. Way Down In The Hole – Tom Waits
17. Promises – Eric Clapton
18. Psycho-Killer
19. Don’t Look Back in Anger
20. Rein Me In  |||      Riffs For Rein Me In
21. Shenandoah

1. Burning Love       Burning-Love-fill.pdf  NEW
2. Chandelier – Sia and Chandelier Riffs NEW
3. Hey Ya NEW
4. I Dont Wanna Be With Nobody But You – Absent Friends
5. Buzzcut Season – Lorde      |||||  Riffs In Em And G
6. Undressed – Sombr
7. You were meant for me – Jewel
8. It Must Be Love – Labi Siffre     ||||   It Must Be Love Riffs by Bec  |||||   ((( It Must Be Love Full Score by Bec
9. Hoochie Coochie Man     ||Hoochie-Coochie-riff.pdf|NEW|   C and D scale (inc blues scales)
10. Someday – The Strokes

Spares

1. 1. Zac Bryan – I remember everything
   2. C Jam Blues – Ukulele    |||  Sonny Moon-for-Two

 

SCALES ETC.

1. C and D scale (inc blues scales)
2. C scale in thirds (much harder)
3. Ukulele Chord Forms
4. Chords up the Neck CAGFD
5. Purcell Canon with tab
6. Scales For Ukulele C And D
7. Circle of fifths – Woolly Mammoth 
8. Dorian Mode for the Ukulele
9. Chromatic Scale – Kauai Rainbow
10. Picking patterns for ukulele
11. Harmonic Minor Scales (fingers)
12. A chord chart of everything
13. Strumming Patterns
14. All the notes up the neck
15. Scales For Ukulele C And D      |        Circle of fifths – Woolly Mammoth    |      C Jam Blues – Ukulele     |         Blue Yodel No 6 – Jimmie Rodgers

Here are Song Suggestions from across the Ukestras

Payment

Most Ukestrans pay through the very affordable ‘Uketen’. Details on that are here.

If you don’t yet want to commit to a uketen, you can pay a casual fee of $22 cash on the day.

 

 

 

 

The Request Session (13/5/26)

Yes, I think the Request Session will be once a month. At this session YOU make a request, from our existing files. If you are a regular, then you should know the link to those files. So make a request either before (by email), or during the session. And because we are now projecting the music (no more printouts), and because most people are on some sort of device, it is easy to pick and choose at the time.