On a festive December evening, nearly 200 ukulele players gathered from all over the globe to strum and sing holiday tunes together. We enjoyed visiting with friends from at least four continents (North America, Europe, Asia and Australia) and numerous time zones. Thank you all for arranging your schedules to join us live on YouTube!

Bob kicked off the evening with some local ukulele news, making sure everyone from near and far knows they are welcome to join us at monthly in-person meetings in the new year, if at all possible.

We warmed up our fingers and voices with Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds” before launching into some of our holiday repertoire. Each November, we learn a new holiday song (or medley,) so we have a lot of terrific tunes to choose from. Bob took us through mini-tutorials that included helpful hints on some trickier chords or progressions, before each song. The holiday spirit was strong throughout the evening. Before we ended, we played Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again.”  💓

You can download the Austin Ukulele Society’s 2023 Holiday Songbook. You can also watch a replay of the December 7 live stream. Watch the entire show or jump to the part you most want to see — a table of contents with timestamps can be found in the video’s description.

As we wrapped up the meeting, we watched some of the terrific collaborative videos that Marty Porter and Paul Butler produced as well as some great videos that Bob Guz made of our live meeting performances. Check out our most recent group video, “Up On the Roof“:

As always, we owe many thanks to Bob, Jen Richardson, Lyda Guz, and the rest of our amazing volunteers who help run the Austin Ukulele Society!

Thank you for joining us, sending in your selfies, and staying connected! We look forward to seeing you in person, if you can join us in Austin.

We’ll be back on YouTube on February 22, 2024, for our next livestream. Until then, we wish you peace and joy throughout the holiday season and into the new year!  🙂

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