Margaret Mulligan’s ukulele portraits

Posted: June 15th, 2009 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: corktown | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Photographer Margaret Mulligan took portraits of people with their ukes at last week’s Corktown Ukulele Jam, and they look terrific. Here’s the whole photoset on Flickr, and here are two of yours truly:

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Video: me at the Corktown Ukulele Jam

Posted: April 21st, 2009 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: video | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »

So basically, every Wednesday for a bunch of weeks now, I’ve been going to the Corktown Ukulele Jam. It’s just down the street from my house at the Dominion on Queen, and it’s awesome.

A few weeks ago, the videotaped the whole night and put it on YouTube. Here’s me, doing a ukulele cover of “She’s Dead” by Jim’s Big Ego:

There’s a contest for these YouTube videos — the most viewed after a month wins a dinner at the Dominion, if I recall correctly. So feel free to watch this multiple times.