BUMS Inc Newsletter June 2025

In This Newsletter:-

• June Jams
• Easiest way to renew your membership
• Elegant Afternoon Tea Concert & Dance
• Lord Mayor's Seniors Cabaret
• Composers' Presentation Day
• Townsville Folk Festival 
• Report on Sally Carter's workshops

THE EASIEST WAY TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP!

$60 for 12 months. (And BUMS pays the transaction fees.)

Many of you will have renewals due on 30th June. But don't fret, Member Jungle will send you a reminder in plenty of time!

It's easiest and most efficient to renew online - using the Member Jungle app or the BUMS website.

All the help you need is here.

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez ¿¿ on Unsplash

ELEGANT AFTERNOON TEA CONCERT AND DANCE

Starring:

• Virtuoso ukulele and fiddle player Sally Carter;
• Internationally renowned The Wild Women of Anywhere Beach pitching their latest witty lyrics and scandalous anthems; and
• The sizzling, marvellous, multi-instrumentalists Mama Juju & The Jam Tarts 

Tickets are a ridiculous $17 online or $20 at the door. 

Fun starts at 1.00pm and lunch is available from 12 noon.

All the details and booking link here.

Lord Mayor's Seniors Cabaret

If you can dream it, you can do it!

The Lord Mayor's Seniors Cabaret is a free development program that provides Brisbane seniors the opportunity to learn from the best in the biz and develop their creative and artistic talents in a non-competitive and supportive environment. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced performer or you’ve never performed on the stage before, it’s your time to shine!

No auditions are required for this program. 

Prepare an item beforehand (solo or group) and then perform that item at your masterclass and receive one-on-one feedback from your mentor. All the mentors are wonderfully encouraging, especially Vic Kena. As many of you know, Vic is a consummate performer. He's the master of anything with strings, but he has a special love for the ukulele. What an opportunity!

All the information you need is here. Registrations open 1 June - next Monday.

This full day workshop for soprano, concert and tenor ukuleles will showcase new instrumental music for both High G and Low G ukulele by national and international composers Samantha Muir, Paul Mansell, Sally Carter, Tony Mizen, Choan Galvez and Cathy Welsford. The selected pieces provide many opportunities for learning both skills and musical understandings.

Discounts for BUMS members, a book of 40 pieces to keep, a concert at the end and morning and afternoon tea in between. What could be better?

"This was an inspiring day. It moved me out of my comfort zone rut, and opened my eyes to new possibilities and ways of putting songs together. Being a group of ukers of varying abilities, my first thought was 'How are they going to be able to cater for such wide differences?' But Sally and Cathy are also wonderful teachers and they pitched the day so well that everyone came away having learned something new. Playing together at the end of the day, we were sounding fabulous, having had a fun day filled with laughs and learning."  Liz Hrouda

MUCH more information and the booking link here. 

Travelling with your uke?

Townsville Folk Festival is on 6 to 8 June at Foots Hill Station

Townsville Folk Festival Website

Sally Carter's Workshops

25 lucky BUMS members learned how to play their ukuleles like harps in the first workshop. In the second session, they belted out Queen's We Will Rock You - in five parts! 

Judi Goldspink