Comments on: Corktown Ukulele Jam

By: John Yates

John Yates — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:29:29 +0000

I’d love to get together with you some time. It’s not easy because I’m in Bowmanville, and most of my Wednesdays are booked, but perhaps some day I can join you for an evening of strumming & singing.

I have a “Stadium” brand, mahogany uke that I bought at a pawnshop on Ninth Ave, New York, in 1953. It was stepped on the following year so I had to build a new top for it from 1/8″ birch plywood. Last fall, the bridge snapped off, taking one layer of plywood, so I built a new bridge, and we’re back in business.

The best time I had with my ukelele was at a summer camp – FRANKLIN CAMP on Franklin Island, near Parry Sound. Has anyone ever heard of the place?

By: Ginger "Squeaky" Bellows

Ginger "Squeaky" Bellows — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:04:31 +0000

Dan + co. – if jamming with 50 ppl sharing very little in common but for a little 4 stringed wooden box sounds like something you’d dig, the thing to do is get on our email list, home page of torontoUKES.com (that goes for you too Dan!!). we don’t spam – but there is a lot of important jam info that goes out like once a week. the spirit permeating that room is religious. join the ukontinuum.
Dean Moriarty: “Jack, this is IT. yes – yes – yaaaaas!”

By: Rye

Rye — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:52:38 +0000

You said it, we rock the uke!

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:57:49 +0000

After having watched that video, I have now decided that, should I ever come up with a soundtrack for my life, it should, in some way, involve a ukelele.

By: Sunny Widerman

Sunny Widerman — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:49:59 +0000

Re: Your Brains was me. And since you seem to be the only other person at the jam who knows JoCo, I’m pretty happy you’re becoming one of us too.

Now, not to put to fine a point on it: could we just eat your brains?

By: Stefan Cvetkovic

Stefan Cvetkovic — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:28:23 +0000

next time I’m in Toronto, this is the first place I’m going. man, we should have this Windsor.

By: Tom Lucier

Tom Lucier — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:26:59 +0000

This is phenomenal!
So awesome.
It’s like, super-uke-synchronicity!
How unlikely…
Very happy that you found a place to hone your craft!

Sorry Jenna.