Session 1 | 10:30am 

1) Tips and tricks for expanding your musical horizons
Presenters: Sonia & Nigel
Sonia and Nigel are a multi-cultural acoustic duo featuring French-American Paris-born Sonia Wilson on vocals and ukulele and Kiwi-American virtuoso musician Nigel Gavin on 7-string guitar. They will share insights, musical games and practical tips from their teaching, touring and recording careers. All levels of playing experience are welcome.

2) Strumming patterns and different chords (up the neck)
Presenter: Dave Maybee
Dave is a multi-instrumental session musician, recording producer, composer, songwriter, recording artist, and longtime resident of Raglan. In this workshop, he puts on his teaching hat to guide folks around different strumming patterns and chords (up and down the neck). Suitable for beginners to advanced players on soprano, tenor, and baritone ukulele.

3) The other ukes
Presenters: Brian Wilson, Deb Hand, Lynne Wilkins, Marcia Mitchley and Nella Pairama
There are more kinds of ukes than your standard sopranos, concerts and tenors. If you’re curious about other ukes – or if you have a different uke yourself you’d like to show and talk about, this session is a sharing of info, led by our panel of local players:

• Brian Wilson – 8 string and Low G ukuleles
  ” I played guitar for years, and only picked up the ukulele 4 years ago when I was given one. I was asked to teach some ukulele, so thought I’d better learn to play it myself! From these lessons we formed a ‘play for fun’ group, which quickly grew into The Ragtimers.”
• Deb Hand – Baritone ukulele
  “I always wanted to play the guitar but, it was too big with too many strings! Found the Baritone 18 months ago…it was love at first strum.”
• Lynne Wilkins – Guilele, bass ukulele
  “As part of the folk duo WilkieMac, I feature the guilele in some of our songs. I’m also a bass player, and I’m a member of the Raglan ukulele band The Blister Sisters.”
• Marcia Mitchley – Baritone banjolele
  “I’ve been loving learning to play the ukulele and am grateful for the support of the Blister Sisters in this journey. I happened across a beautiful banjolele in Alistair’s Music Shop in Wellington last year. I love its sound and look, but have a long way to go before I’m confident to play it (in public!).”
• Nella Pairama – Banjolele and baritone/tenor ukulele
  “I’m forever learning. My challenge – being left-handed. I choose to play upside-down, so that I can play anybody’s ukulele. I’m pleased with my achievements so far and laugh lots at my “Gee I got that wrong” moments, as for me some chords are impossible, but I’m good with basics.”