August 2019 Newsletter

Summer arrived last Thursday with a bang, but we carried on regardless even though it felt that we were all going to melt down.

The St Hugh's gig went well and it was very nice to be met with a jug of Pimms when we arrived.
One of the organisers left a good post on our Facebook page.
Thank you to everyone who came along.

The new songs have gone down well and we have made some minor tweaks to some of our songs resulting in a revised version of our songbook. Please see the Songbooks section of this website to download.

We now have our own public liability insurance via Making Music and it was in place for the St Hugh's gig.

Thank you to everyone who took part in to Doodle Poll for St Hugh's. We found it really useful to know who was going to come along.

Gig News 
Date: Sunday 8th Sept
Venue : Withington Methodist Church, 439 Wilmslow Road Withington M20 4AN
Time: We will be playing two thirty minute sets starting at 2.15pm for Assist Charity 50th birthday event.

A songbook for the gig is available from our website. It has more songs than we probably need but it gives us options on the day and we definitely won't run out of material. We will be playing through the songbook in August.
A Doodle Poll was recently sent out for this gig, so it would be really helpful to us if you could respond if you haven't already done so.

We will be meeting as usual at The Lloyds every Thursday in August from 7.30pm-9.30pm.
The Lloyds has a new manager starting this week, so we wish them well.

 Hope to see you soon

Chorlton Ukulele Team

New Songbook

We have just released a new version of our Big Songbook (and corresponding Gig Songbook) dated 12th July 2019.

This is available from our Songbooks section of this website.

Enjoy!

Chorlton Ukulele Team

July 2019 Newsletter

The first half of the year has flown past and this month CHUG will be two years old. A big thank you to everyone who comes along to The Lloyds, plays at our gigs and has supported us over the last two years.

We are getting Doodle Poll up and running which will arrive in your inbox and you can say if you can attend a prospective gig or not. It will give us a better idea of who is coming along to a gig. We will try it out next week to see who is coming to the St Hugh's gig on Saturday 13th July, so it would be good if you could use it and we can see if it works. If you are planning on coming to a gig please come to The Lloyds in the preceding weeks to make sure you are familiar with the gig song book. 

We will also be amending our website to show a calendar of events.

Gig News

Date : Saturday 13th July

Venue; St Hugh's Primary School, Park Road Timperley WA15 6TQ

Parking: On side roads

Public transport: Timperley Metrolink is a few minutes walk from the school. Turn left on leaving the station, head down hill, cross the road at the pedestrian crossing and the school is near by.

Time: The information we have at present is that we will be playing two twenty minute sets starting at 2.45pm - 3.05pm, a thirty minute break and then another 20 minute set from about 3.35pm.

Please arrive 20 minus before we are due to play to set up. Sue and Chris will be there 45mins before hand.

The event is the school's summer fair and the contact is Greg Cavadino of the PTA. We have been told that there will be complimentary food and drink for us.

Date: Sunday 8th September

Venue: Withington Methodist Church, 439 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester M20 4AN

Time: We will be playing two thirty minute sets starting from 2.15pm -2.45 with a thirty minute break. There will be a buffet during the break  and we will play again from 3.15-3.45pm.

The event is to celebrate Assist Charity's 50 years of supporting older people in the community. 

Songbook

A revised CHUG songbook with some new songs will be landing in your inbox in mid July for you to download.

Thank you to everyone who suggested a song. As well as the songs that we chose, we now have a lot of songs in reserve for when we next want to update the book.

We will be meeting at The Lloyds every Thursday in July from 7.30pm -9.30pm. 

We have had a few new people coming along on a Thursday, so welcome to them. See you at The Lloyds.

Chorlton Ukulele Team