October 2018 News

Its that time again - we have updated the Big Song Book and have added some new songs that we hope you will like. Please see the Songbook link to download.
We will launch the new edition on Thursday 4th October and play through the new songs and go through any other changes in the song book. So please bring the latest edition with you on the 4th October

A big thank you to everyone who took part in the  recent CHUG gig season, it was fun and we got a lot of encouraging and positive feedback. 

We will be meeting at The Lloyds from 7.30pm to 9.30pm on the following Thursdays in October 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th.

Dates for your diary.

After our gig at Chorlton Good Neighbours we have been asked back on Sunday 2nd December from 5.20pm to 5.45pm. They hope that there will be fifty people there for their Christmas  party and we will be performing after their meal. We will meet at 5pm to set up. It  will be a good excuse to wear our Christmas t-shirts, jumpers, hats and antlers. We will sort out a Christmas theme playlist nearer the time.

The venue is the same St Ninians Church Hall on Wilbraham Road Chorlton.

We may have a gig on Saturday 1st December at The Lloyds but no details have been confirmed as yet. 

Other News

Tickets are now on sale for the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival in Huddersfield which takes place on 11th and 12th May 2019. Weekend tickets are £48 and Saturday tickets are £42 and can be purchased from their web page. Tickets sell out this event so if you want to go get booking!

We hope that you can come along to The Lloyds on Thursday for our latest song book launch.

Chorlton Ukulele Team

September 2018 News

Many thanks to everyone who turned up to the Together Dementia Support Family Fun Afternoon. It went very well and we certainly rocked with twenty ukuleles  and voices. The organisers have thanked us for our help and they raised over £2000.

Yesterday we played at The Lloyds the home of CHUG which was a bit of a non event but we had a good strum and sing song and what better way of spending a wet bank holiday Sunday... and a few beers!

We will be meeting on the following Thursdays in Sept at The Lloyds from 7.30pm to 9.30pm: 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th.

Gig news

Sunday 2nd September

We are playing at :

Wilbraham St Ninians Church Hall

Egerton Road South 

Chorlton M210XJ

This is for Chorlton Good Neighbours Afternoon Tea.

 We are playing from 4.20pm to 4.50pm. Please arrive 15 minutes before hand to set up.

The event organiser is called Diane. Sue and Rosemary will be there early so look out for them. We have been told that there is plenty of car parking on Egerton Road South and its also a short 5 mins walk from Chorlton Metrolink Station.

Attached is the playlist for this event. The songs and page numbers refer to the Summer Gig Book.

Monday 3rd September

Central Library

St Peters Square

Manchester M2 5PD

We are playing in one of the Performance Space rooms which are situated to the left of the main entrance hall, behind the media library booths. There is usually a Central Library volunteer or a security person in the entrance hall so ask them if you have any problems finding it. Sue will be there early so look for her. 

We are playing from just after 6pm to 6.35pm as people arrive for John Swain's book launch. Please arrive the usual 15 minutes before hand.

 John invites everyone to stay for the book launch if they want to, and there is plenty of space for family and friends.

Attached is the  songbook for Central Library. We had a play through last week and we will have another run through next week.

Other news

To keep our Thursday evening interesting we are planning to add a few more  songs to the CHUG Big Songbook. If you have any ideas of songs that would be suitable for the group to have a go, at please email and attach any suggestions.

The Edge ukulele lessons start again on Wednesday12th September for a fourteen week term finishing on 12th December. Beginners and intermediate start at 6.30pm to 7.45pm and advanced ukulele starts at 8pm to 9.15pm. Further details and how to book are on The Edge web page.

Saturday 1st December

We have been asked to play at The Lloyds Christmas lights switch on. More details to follow when we get them. We did this last year and it was a good evening. It does mean that we will be practising Christmas songs in November but  I noticed Christmas cards on sale this week so perhaps November isn't too soon to play seasonal songs!

Hope to see you on Thursday and at any of the gigs

Chorlton Ukulele Team