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Such sad news to Hear Bill Collings passed. He was a true genius and will be greatly missed. I met him a few years back and did a great interview with him http://originalukulelesongs.com/article-2/ I own 4…
In my other life for the last decade I have been teaching communication and performance skills across the globe in the USA, Europe and Asia. In fact I was doing this long before I started…
The previous two blog posts were about folks who I considered as artists to be great entertainers. These were entirely at random and the posting was purely on the subject of ENTERTAINMENT and nothing else,…
As well as finalizing The Small Change Diaries second album “Lullabies for Cynics” due for release November 3rd, as Nick Cody, I’m starting to put in place a number of side projects. These will unfold…
David Byrne in his excellent “How Music Works” talks about different acoustic spaces and how they change the experience for both artist and audience. My own personal experience is that this can be a fascinating…
A number of people have asked me recently about the possibility of earning a living from ukulele music. I can’t imagine anything I would like to do less for a multitude of reasons, some of…
There’s a great fable by Aesop that is as true today as when it was written The Scorpion and the Frog A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the…
One of the many things I learned from spending a lot of time with Martin Simpson is to learn new instruments. This trend started with a National dobro, a mandola, a walking bass dulcimer and…
Since forming The Small Change Diaries I have increasingly become more aware about the importance of practice. Yes, I always understood this intellectually, but from playing in a band its blindingly obvious that if you…
I heard about Guadalupe ukulele strings from my good friend Dafydd in Wales. I had never come across them before and part of the reason is that they only sell directly to the public. If…