2017 Program

Program - Saturday 10th June 2017

W: Workshop P: Participation C: Concert

TIME		DESCRIPTION	VENUE	COST
7:00am - 8:30am	W	Eat ‘n Strum Breakfast Workshop	The Coffee Club 92 Middle St Cleveland	$20.00
9:00am - 12:00pm	P,C	Saturday morning Big Jam with guest artists: Chrysalis Georgie Taylor Maleny Ukes David Hethorn All-in Jam Morning Tea included	Binary Studio, Shop 11 Cleveland Plaza 48 Bloomfield St Cleveland	$15.00
12:00 - 2:00pm	C	Lunch and concert: Tom Richter Adrian Board	La Bella Cafe 99 Bloomfield St Cleveland	$20.00
2:00pm - 2:55pm	W	Ukulele Bass: Karen Henderson	Binary Studio, Shop 11 Cleveland Plaza 48 Bloomfield St Cleveland	$10.00
3:00pm - 3:55pm	W	Ukestration: Tom Richter	Binary Studio, Shop 11 Cleveland Plaza 48 Bloomfield St Cleveland	$10.00
4:00pm - 4:55pm	W	Harmonica (cross-harp): Tom Richter	Binary Studio, Shop 11 Cleveland Plaza 48 Bloomfield St Cleveland	$10.00
5:00pm - 5:55pm	W	Backings for practice: Len Henderson	Binary Studio, Shop 11 Cleveland Plaza 48 Bloomfield St Cleveland	$10.00
6:30pm - 9:00pm	C	Dinner Concert: Georgie Taylor The Wild Women of Armidale	Sands Hotel, Middle St Cleveland	$50.00

Program - Sunday 11th June 2017

P: Participation C: Concert

School Groups: Birkdale State School, Redland Bay State School, Sheldon College, St. Rita's Primary School
Ukulele Clubs: The Dukes of Uke, GRUBS (Greater Redlands Ukulele Band), RCU's (Redland City Ukes)
Guest Artists: Ryo Montgomery, Gerard Haynes, Mama Juju & The Jam Tarts, Anything Goes, Archdukes

TIME		DESCRIPTION	VENUE	COST
10:00am - 4:00pm	C	Golden Cockerel Community Concert 10:00 Redland Bay State School 10:20 GRUBS 10:50 Birkdale State School 11:10 Dukes of Uke 11:40 St Rita's Primary 12:00 RCU's 12:30 Sheldon College 1:00 Gerard Haynes 1:30 Archdukes 2:00 Ryo Montgomery 3:00 Mama Juju & The Jam Tarts 3:30 Anything Goes 4:00 All-in Finale song!	Cleveland State School Hall, Queen St Cleveland	Adults $5 Children FREE
10:00am - 4:00pm	E P	Ukulele Trade Display Food Stalls (Pizza, Sausage Sizzle, Coffee, Sweets, Cold Drinks) Ukulele Decorating	Cleveland State School Hall, Queen St Cleveland

Platinum Sponsor:

RedArts would like to thank our patron Albert Benfer for his continuing support of the arts in the Redlands.

Major Sponsor:

Feedback from Previous Festivals

Thank you for your efforts in organising the 2014 Redlands Ukulele Festival. The venues, workshops and guest artist were spectacular. Thanks also for providing me with the opportunity to perform at the Sat. and Sun. concerts with the Dukes. I loved the Ukulele groups practice session prior to the event. Redland City was also a great winner I look forward to next years event.

What a huge success the Uke Festival was. Congratulations to you and the organizers of the event. I enjoyed the workshops with Mike and Tom. You all did a fabulous job. Hope to see you next year.

I found it helpful, good feedback from customers and it was a good trading day for me, and I think we should have more of these little festivals in Cleveland, and particularly in Bloomfield Street to help businesses improve more and more and get better exposure to the public. – Joseph

The weekend was fantastic, I came here on Saturday for the open mic, geez there’s some talent there eg our young local student Georgie Taylor who won the bursary last year’s festival. She has really progressed this year and she’s going to grow up to be a very famous lady. Sunday was fantastic, the weather was inclement, but the alternative venue was good, Len and Karen and REDARTS did a fantastic job. – George

I just want to congratulate you and the hard working team on such a wonderful, successful event over the week end. The children had an absolute fantastic time. They were so excited to perform and it was so lovely that the audience were so receptive and supportive of their efforts. I was so proud to see them performing and singing confidentially in front of a big audience at such a young age. I really enjoyed seeing the terrific Ukulele groups performing. It’s so nice to see people sharing their passion for music. Definitely count us in for next year.

– I thought it was awesome and fantastic to see all those professional guys and girls up there having a go at their ukuleles and I think they’ve done a fantastic job. And to put this festival on it takes a lot of hard work for Karen and Len and the sponsors and that, to come up and actually have it in Cleveland, have it in the Redlands, because in my whole life I’ve never been to one, I used to live in Maryborough and they never had one up there. When I came to the Redlands I saw the road signs and found out about the festival. I enjoyed it and I hope there’s more to come like this. – Brad

On behalf of MUGS I wish to congratulate you on a wonderful event that was the Redlands Ukulele Festival. It was absolutely fabulous and you and the organizers deserve great credit for staging such a successful event. We were happy to be part of the event and know that it will only get better next year.

Thank you to Len and Karen from Binary Music for having us to the event again this year. Jet Music is always happy to get involved with the ukulele committees and festivals as we’re pretty heavily invested in the Uke scene. Really good show, excellent turnout, great venues and really good to see some excellent live performers and the talent each year increasing and the size of the whole event each year increasing. So, great job to Len and Karen from Binary Music and REDARTS team. – Eddie

The Ukulele festival was special to me because I did my first open mic on the street singing and playing ukulele at the La Bella Restaurant space organised by the festival. I had so much fun, people were singing along. I had tears in my eyes watching the talent of Ryo Montgomery, people danced in the hall as the MUGS played. Girls decorated ukes with coloured paints and Jewels. Everyone smiled, whether they were performers or in the audience, there was a light in people’s eyes, it’s about the joy. – Maree