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San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion!

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San Francisco, CA, US

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About us

The Ukulele Rebellion has begun! Join us at our various monthly meetings (and other events).

We are an educational group, seeking to teach beginners and beyond to play the ukulele. Our primary songbooks are The Daily Ukulele (the Yellow Book) and The Daily Ukulele Leap Year Edition (the Blue Book) published by Flea Market Music.

We also play some songs from chord/lyric sheets that can be downloaded (see below).

We ask for a $5 donation per meeting to pay for Meetup.com site maintenance and other expenses.

If you can print out your own copies of the "alternate" songs from the Files section of the group (Under "More" above), that would be fabulous! The songs for each meetup that have been requested (both new and old) are in a file with the meetup's date. The whole book is under "Rebellious Songbook." The Xmas songs are under "Rebellious Xmas Songs."

Thanks, and we hope to see you strumming along with us.

Upcoming events

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Virtual Ukulele Rebellion #105! Celebrating Lunar New Year: Year of the Horse!
Sat, Feb 21 · 7:00 PM PST
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February 17 is the beginning of the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, and 2026 is the Year of the Horse. Let's celebrate the Year of the Horse with songs about the moon and songs about horses, and any other songs appropriate for the celebration of the Lunar New Year!

We'll play music from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Pacific Standard Time.

To address some Zoom-bombing at our March and October 2025 Zoom meetups, I will be looking at and implementing additional security procedures for access to Zoom. The Zoom link will appear on this page when you RSVP. If Zoom asks for a passcode, the passcode is Rebellion. The passcode is case-sensitive.

If you'd like to lead a song, please let me know, either by posting here in the comments or by email, which song(s) you would like to lead. The cut-off time for requesting to lead a song is THE TUESDAY BEFORE THE MEETING (for this meeting, Tuesday February 17), even if you're going to be leading a song from one of the Daily Ukulele books or the Groovy Songbook. I'll post a songlist here in advance of our meeting.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEAD A SONG USING SHEET MUSIC OR A CHORD CHART THAT ISN'T IN THE YELLOW BOOK, THE BLUE BOOK, OR THE GROOVY SONGBOOK, PLEASE EMAIL THE DOCUMENT TO ME IN DIGITAL FORMAT IN ADVANCE SO THAT I CAN UPLOAD IT TO DROPBOX AND POST IT ON THE SCREEN FOR OTHERS.
PLEASE NOTE: To accommodate all first song requests, we may not have time to get to all second (or third) song requests. When asking to lead more than one song, please indicate your first and second choices to ensure that, if we can't get to your second request, the song you'd most like to lead is included in that evening's song list. Thank you in advance for your willingness to lead songs and your understanding about how the song list for each meeting is prepared.
You can reach me by email at sfukerebellion@yahoo.com
**************************************************************Warmup song: Moondance (Blue, p. 254) - Mark

Song requests

First requests
Great White Horse (pdf) - Mary H.
Halo Around The Moon (pdf) - Shawn
Kong Si Chinese New Year Song (pdf) - Shirley
The Moon's A Harsh Mistress (pdf) - Mabel
Shine On Harvest Moon (pdf) - Disney Mark

Second requests
Moon Boat (pdf) - Shawn
The Moon Represents My Heart (pdf) - Shirley and Mark
The Moon Song (pdf) - Mary H.
Moonlight Becomes You (pdf) - Disney Mark
Run For The Roses (pdf) - Mabel

Additional requests
Moonlight In Vermont (pdf) - Disney Mark

Tribute songs
Sally's Song [Catherine O'Hara] (pdf) - Disney Mark
One [Chuck Negron, Three Dog Night] (pdf) - Mark
Eternal Flame [Billy Steinberg] (pdf) - Mark

Closing song: We'll Meet Again (pdf and Yellow, p. 259) - Mark

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I'll be sharing all song charts onscreen, but you can download digital copies of the Daily Ukulele books and the pdfs for tonight's songs by following links that will be posted in the comments.

The dropbox link to The Daily Ukulele.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uca82l70r9a4hgjqohsgq/Daily_ukulele_yellow_LINKED_v1.1.pdf?rlkey=44gm13r5gbvhstiv7ibnuojt1&st=dvrcg7n4&dl=0
The dropbox link to the Daily Ukulele - Leap Year Edition:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hy9pnffip1lc1rxs5zc8q/Daily_Ukulele_blue_Leap_Year_LINKED_v1.1.pdf?rlkey=oug9yq9ezckyly3ekj3su539u&st=2hgndbig&dl=0
The Dropbox link to the Groovy Song Book used in the Bronco Billy Zoom jams:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ezywmwbck8229gu/2021-05-22_v9_Official%20BBJ%20Virtual%20Song%20Packet.pdf?dl=0

I hope to see you online!
17 attendees
$75.00
Winter Workshop: “Get Ready to Jam”
Sun, Feb 22 · 12:00 PM PST
CCMC Winter Retreat and Workshop, 220 Cloister Lane, Aptos, CA, US
The California Coast Music Camp is sponsoring an afternoon workshop for ukulele and guitar players in Aptos, near Santa Cruz. Three teachers, Ukulenny, Steve Kritzer and Janet Lenore will lead six workshops - plenty to chose from in two class periods. The classes are designed to help people jam more confidently with others, even if there’s no chord sheets and even if others are playing guitar. Skills such as how to lead a song, when and how to give someone the opportunity to solo, and maybe even to try taking a solo yourself. There’s a class for learning to “read” a guitar player’s hands so you know what chord to play on the ukulele. If this sounds interesting, go to www.musiccamp.org and click on “Winter Workshop.” Note that these three are also among CCMC’s teachers this coming summer camp season.

All attendees must pre-register on the www.musiccamp.org website. Cost = $75 by check or PayPal on the website
2 attendees
Join us on the Fourth Friday for the Marin Uke Rebellion
Fri, Feb 27 · 3:00 PM PST
Belvedere-Tiburon Library, 1501 Tiburon Boulevard, Belvedere Tiburon, CA, US
Join us for the Marin Uke Rebellion! meetup held at Belvedere-Tiburon Library on the Friday We are joining forces with Marin Ukes and great ukulele players from around the Bay Area.

The Belvedere Tiburon Library is easy to get to by car, bus or ferry (and a short walk) from San Francisco. It has plenty of parking and even has loaner ukes for library patrons.

We will be using selection from the Daily Ukulele Yellow and Blue Editions by Jim Beloff plus supplemental charts. Our focus will be primarily American popular music from the 1920 through 1970s.

Ukulele players, singers and acoustic musicians are welcome. Please join us.

P.S. The first event was very successful with 30+ players. I hope this to be one of your "must attend" live jams.
2 attendees
Vallejo Ukes4Peace Jam - Hosted by Ukulele Lovers of Vallejo
Sat, Mar 14 · 12:00 PM PDT
Florence Douglas Senior Center, 333 Amador dr, Vallejo, CA, US
If you are interested in attending this event, please RSVP to John Latini at
sunnyvalekid1@gmail.com

Ukes4Peace is a group of Bay Area ukulele clubs (including San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion) committed to the idea that "through music, played together, we can promote peace, harmony, and love and make the world a better place." The idea is that member ukulele clubs will host one or more events in their own geographic area at which members from other affiliated ukulele clubs can join to play songs of protest, hope, peace, and encouragement.

Ukes4Peace is organizing primarily through Facebook as a public Facebook group. If you have a Facebook account and you would like to join the Facebook group, here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1799886787341053

For at least the foreseeable future, I'll be posting Ukes4Peace events, like this one, on the San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion meetup site.

The Ukulele Lovers of Vallejo is hosting the first ever Ukes4Peace jam on Saturday, March 14, from noon to 2:30 pm at the The Florence Douglas Center on 333 Amador Street in Vallejo.

If you are interested in attending this event, please RSVP to John Latini at
sunnyvalekid1@gmail.com .

Ukes4Peace has created a songbook for everyone in all the participating ukulele clubs to use at Ukes4Peace jams. That songbook is available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qXNnEBkLbHHcJ6qy90nuq8LEhi1gZC8T?fbclid=IwY2xjawPv3slleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4MGFiZEl4QUFZUGV1YVFsc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmJbDbnrGcQKy9rYP5f2z2k1IxFUq2t-GdkXB5akMB9ixAAbTkjW8Irgig_K_aem_kASjnT5gfM6E6qXGUDkn7Q

You can also find it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cmje2lo0gjzsre0zzdd5l/Ukes4PeaceFULL-REV7-final-compressed.pdf?rlkey=wcxorfy8i7rykouwpgwq5htlf&st=j64ljivp&dl=0

Please emasil me at sfukerebellion@yahoo.com if you have any questions or comments about the Ukes4Peace group and/or its events.
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