Pathways to Folk: Ukulele
Summer Class | Available
Community is the core of these classes! We sing and play folk songs together. Students are encouraged to lead each other through songs, and to bring in suggestions for songs to learn. Our main focus is connecting with each other through music.
Students will be provided with individualized support to aid in their development as folk musicians. They will receive new songs continually to add to their songbooks, and instruction on technical aspects of playing the ukulele. Instruction will be focused on helping students to accomplish playing and singing in a social setting.
If you are just getting started there is no need to worry! We will have you playing through simple songs quicker than you could imagine! We even have ukuleles you can borrow during class, if you haven’t bought one yet!
- You will be encouraged to bring your own ukulele, however there are ukuleles available for use in class at the Community Arts Center.
Joshua King
Finding myself lost in the sea of family tragedies, music has preserved me. Music opened my heart through the droughts of life. Complex over laid patterns of sound tuned my nervous system to the speed of this precious life. Harmonious, gratitude enriched connections carried me when my thoughts were too heavy. Practice teaches me to train my own wild animal. “Sit. Stay. Persist.”
I dream of a culture where we sing together again as people have since time immemorial. Meters pulling us together, notes urging us forward, harmonies welling up within us. Cycles timed concordantly with each growing synergy in the water from our hearts. One lifting another, and in time being lifted oneself. Reaching for new stars and home planets, growing gardens here, and far away. Moving us together, to grow families, communities, nations.