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Howlin' Hobbit plays old jazz and original tunes on ukulele and other instruments with verve, skill, laughs and fun!
Here you'll find ukulele chords and music, links to ukulele resources like tabs, sheet music, players, baritone ukulele information and many other topics of interest to ukulele enthusiasts and general music lovers. Heck, there's even instructions for a diy felt pick!
There are CDs available for sale (with my band, Snake Suspenderz). Great jazz, hokum and novelty tunes with a large ukulele presence! You can also stream or download mp3s of some of the tunes.
this news feature is syndicated Thursday, August 26, 2010
New video, songsheet & pics of the jug band
I've recently completed the first solo video I've ever managed to get done in HD. It's of my original tune, Purr More, Hiss Less and it comes equipped with a free pdf of the arrangement if you want to give it a strum. Check it all out here.
I've also just received what I believe to be the first photos I've seen of the newly re-formed Emerald City Jug Band in action. Taken at our gig up in Hamlin Park in Shoreline, WA. You can give 'em a peep here.
Should be some more videos coming (yep... all HiDef and everything). Stay tuned!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
New gigs and a fly in the ointment
I've just entered two new gigs on the shows page. This is the first time (that I can recall) I've had two gigs on the same day and it pointed out a little weakness in my calendar program (yeah, I wrote that code).
The code tidily arranges the gigs by date but apparently it never occurred to me that I should arrange by time as well. So when I started by entering my 12:30 pm solo set at the 9th Annual Pike Place Market Busker’s Festival, and then added the 2 pm set I'm doing with Snake Suspenderz, I confuzzled the hell out of my program and it's listing them in reverse order.
Guess it's time to take another stab at getting php working on my local server so I can code at home again!
Meanwhile, for sure come on down to the Pike Place Market on September 19th and enjoy buskers from Seattle and beyond on three stages, from 11am-5pm. Come celebrate the spirit of the Market with us and support Northwest street performers!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Free ukulele songsheets!
I just posted the fourth in a series of pdf files with the ukulele arrangements I use for some of my original (and co-written) tunes. You can read all about Dr. Hokum & Mr. Jive here and check out the whole list here.
Enjoy!
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