New Uke Day

My students just played their recital last weekend and I had one uke player among my students. 14 year old Ava played a Libba Cotton medley. She started with Freight Train and went into Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie. She played finger-style on a low G, linear tuned uke. She had only been playing finger-style for a month and she did a flawless job. One of the other guitar teachers just heard her from back stage and assumed she was playing a nylon strung guitar. I was mighty proud of her.
She's now working on a finger-style version of Five Foot Two.

I still think of myself as a beginning uke player, since it is my newest instrument, but Maggie pointed out that I've been playing for about seven years now.  This photo was taken when the MLC Jug Band first started in 2011.  I must have been playing Walkin' My Baby Back Home, because that's the only song I do with the ukulele and mouth harp.  That is the Kala concert uke that I traded away yesterday.