Gary G Music

https://calgarylifelonglearners.ca/Ukefest-2021 Check out Calgary Ukulele Festival 2021 details here...

Private students - In accordance with Alberta Health recommendations we're going to go back to online lessons as of Monday. Hopefully it won't be for much more than a month, but I'll keep you posted on developments. Thank you for your understanding.

Do you have a cool $1 million burning a hole in your pocket? Clapton's 1954 Strat is up for auction.

The first time I tried out Twisted Wood's solid koa tenor ukulele...I put a low G on it, and it's my main uke for performing and recording now. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1594526167251821&t=0

Guitar student Jasper experimenting with the loop pedal this week, with a Jack Johnson song

For Carol's online recital, she played her own chord melody arrangement of a Queen ballad...

Students, thinking of taking part in 2021's St Albert Rotary Music Festival? If you're looking for material for ukulele, check out the RGT Ukulele Playing books. They're graded currently up to Grade 5. Here is the piece "Troubadour" from Grade 4...

It's never too early for Christmas songs...right? Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from the ballet "The Nutcracker" on my favorite ukulele...

Are any of my students interested in competing in 2021's St Albert Rotary Music Festival?

Kyle Swenson and I will be offering a ukulele presentation again at North Central Teachers Conference (NCTCA) in February, for those music teacher friends who are interested in attending our workshop. We will also be presenting at Calgary Ukulele Festival for the first time in May! Both presentations will be online...Camrose Library have extended my contract to lead their ukulele circle to May. 2021 is already looking busier than the last half of 2020!

Registration is open for St Albert Rotary Music Festival...

Winter recital - All music students, there's been a change of plan. Instead of a Zoom live online recital, we're going to have video submissions. Pick a song for winter recital and we'll prepare it for your video submission! Private students video submissions will be shared here, and Dominelli School of Music students videos will be shared on the music school page.

Thank you to my girl scout music students who brought me mint flavoured cookies to class tonight! They're very good. I was going to go to the gym, but decided I would come home and watch tv and eat cookies instead! #restday

Dominelli School of Music students, we have a winter recital! We'll be live on Zoom on the weekend of December 18th-20th. More information to follow...

At the end of our St Albert Cultivates the Arts ukulele workshop we challenged participants to perform one of the arrangements. Here is our final performance!