For this ukulele workshop, Erich Sylvester will distribute copies of familiar songs with chord fingering diagrams above the words to learn chords most common in classic songs. Attendees should bring a ukulele tuned in standard key of C.
For the last 15 years, Erich has been playing ukulele & singing with bands Hot Steel and Cool Ukelele, and has recorded two CDs of Hawaiian hapa haole songs from the era before WW2. Hot Steel describes the lap steel resophonic guitar played with a bar. Erich also plays banjo-uke in the Yerba Buena Jug Band & in past years in the Dancing Pigs jug band. Prior to the Hot Steel and Cool Ukulele bands, Erich played uke & sang classics of the Great American Songbook with partners who played bass. After college, Erich played guitar & sang in an Irish celtic band with partners who played celtic harp & tin whistle & flute…