On a balmy March evening, which happened to be the 5th year anniversary of the pandemic shut down, the Austin Ukulele Society was thrilled to host its best attended in-person meeting since just before that fateful day. With 165 ukulele enthusiasts from all over the Austin area, including some visitors from NC, NY, MN, and Ontario, we really felt the wonderful community spirit and strength of the ukulele world. Thank you for being there! ❤
After a few quick announcements and a warm welcome to all, we got started with our warm-up song: Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds.”
This month, we paid tribute to the late, great Roberta Flack. Her career spanned over 50 years and she had several hits over the decades, including our featured song, 1973’s “Killing Me Softly.” This song was also a huge hit for The Fugees, in the 90’s. We loved learning to strum and harmonize on this beautiful, timeless song!
With vocal support from Kelly and Kimberly, Bob performed his arrangement of “Killing Me Softly.” Next, he launched into teaching us very helpful exercises to get us comfortable with the strum pattern, chords, chord progressions, tab, and vocals for this classic hit. When we put it together, we sounded great.
We took a break to enjoy the wonderful talents of our open mic participants. Larry, Dan, and Rich gave us terrific performances of great cover tunes they’d been working on!
Afterward, we got back to practicing “Killing Me Softly” and hope you’ll enjoy playing along with Bob’s great video recording of the AUS’s performance (coming soon to our YouTube Channel). Please enjoy playing along with us from home!
To play along, you can download the lyrics, chords, and tab for Bob’s arrangement of “Killing Me Softly” or download a copy of the presentation and instruction guide (what we project on the screen for all to follow along, including exercises and drills).
As always, we’re immensely grateful to Aaron for his accompaniment on U-bass and to Jen, Lyda and all the fabulous AUS volunteers, for all their hard work.
We look forward to seeing everyone at our next in-person meeting on Thursday, April 10, at St. John’s United Methodist Church! Be well and see you soon! 🙂
For more downloadable music, visit our Ukulele Music Library. For more Austin Ukulele Society videos, check out our YouTube Channel.
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Ukulele Society T-shirts!
We’re very excited about our 2025 Austin Ukulele Society t-shirt, “Circle of Stars,” designed by Lyda Guz! Each of the 15 stars stands for an action-packed year we’ve been making music together. As always, the shirts are silk-screened right here in Austin at a fantastic locally-owned print shop.
Our new “Circle of Stars” design, “AUS Grackle,” “Classic Ukulele,” “Ukulele Around the World,” “10th Anniversary,” Mermaid, Cowboy,” “Austin Lasso” and other shirts are $25. We also have vinyl decals with the AUS logo for $1 each. We can accept cash or a check made out to Austin Ukulele Society; you can also make payment via Venmo or PayPal. Please drop us a line if you’d like to purchase a shirt (or two or three). 🙂 At this time, we can only ship orders within the U.S.
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