Awkward Strangers

There will definitely be some video coming soon, but Andrew is currently experimenting with combining his new Woodskin foot percussion pedal with a MEINL Travel Cajon and this simple plastic crate 🫨

Action shots from our Hills Ukulele Festival workshop! We had a roomful of ukulele players blasting their way through "𝑾𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑰𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆". Brilliant stuff. Thanks to 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 for taking some video for us to pull these from 😁

(For reference, I'm playing my Bondi Anthem Tenor Electric, and Anke is roaring along with her Singing Saw).

Wow! We're looking forward to 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 as she uses a flurry of fingerpicking and a lacework of lyrics to deliver up a tangle of 𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒆𝒔!

This is going to be a brilliant Hills Ukulele Festival 🤩

Let's make some virtual noise and welcome Christina Green to the Hills Uke Festival.
Christina Green is a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter who performs original contemporary folk songs and selected covers with a range of ukuleles, as well as guitar. Spanning styles from folk/rock to cabaret/chanson, her songs have been described as “snapshots, portraits, landscapes, stories and moments in time, pieces of mindfulness” – with a lyrical focus on the stuff of everyday life. Christina has been playing ukulele since 2011, with festival appearances along the way including several appearances at the Melbourne Ukulele Festival and Hills Ukulele Festival, and a jaunt to the Central Coast Ukulele Festival. She has also performed as feature artist at Klub MUK in Melbourne.. Christina launched a fingerstyle ukulele workshop at the Maldon Folk Festival in 2023, and looks forward to building on this further. She has worked with UK teachers Colin Tribe and Samantha Muir since 2019 with a focus on fingerstyle ukulele. In 2026 Christina is launching a new CD, Tomatoes, which features ukulele across many songs. Christina’s doctoral work (DCA with composition folio completed at Western Sydney University in 2019) features new works for ukulele including a song cycle for baritone ukulele; a second song cycle for the instrument came out of the Covid experience.
See you all in the Hills very Soon.
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Time for some 90s grunge! 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, here for the big sound, and here for the high energy!

This is going to be a brilliant Hills Ukulele Festival 🤩

Stepping onto the Main Stage for the first time, welcome to Here For The Beers.
Here for the Beers is what happens when you add ukuleles and electricity to iconic rock. With songs from the set lists of Queens of the Stoneage, Green Day, Beck and The Dandy Warhols to name just a few Here for the Beers brings a big sound and high energy to the Hills Ukulele Festival.
See you in the Hills very soon.
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