On a warm and bright April evening, Austin Ukulele Society participants happily gathered for their monthly meeting. It was an especially fun time, with the spring holidays bringing first-time visitors from near and far, as well as the yearly seasonal visit from our good friends in the Galveston Ukulele Society. Thank you to our regulars and first-timers – you always bring joy! ❤

We enjoy learning to play and sing songs from a variety of decades; we sometimes even cover a tune written a century ago! However, it’s been while since we played a recent hit and we were very excited to learn to strum and sing Miley Cyrus’ 2023 mega-hit “Flowers.” 

After playing our warm-up song, Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” we launched into learning “Flowers.” This song seemed fairly straightforward at first but had some fun little challenges, and we were glad to have Bob to guide us through them. Bob led us through exercises to make us comfortable with the chords, chord progressions, strums, and vocal harmonies. We sounded great when we put the song together and played it through a couple of times. 

Then we took a short break to enjoy fantastic open mic performances by Kelly, the Galveston Ukulele Society, and Kevin. 

We then played “Flowers” some more and recorded ourselves, coming soon to our YouTube Channel. We hope you enjoy the video and playing along with us from home!

To play along, you can download the lyrics, chords, and tab for Bob’s arrangement of “Flowers” 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.

Please join us in person again on Thursday, May 8, at St. John’s United Methodist Church! We’ll see you then!  🙂

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.