There are many ways you can enhance your SPRUKE Festival experience, one of them is to participate! We invite all Sprukesters to become involved and consider volunteering in some way during the festival. Our SPRUKE crew with their energy and enthusiasm are the most valuable asset that we have—we couldn’t do it without them! Volunteering is a sure way to make friends and experience parts of SPRUKE the rest of other festival goers miss out on.[…]
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What a great way to finish the holidays. The perfect day out for the whole family! Learn to play ukulele in a day … FREE. ENTRY to the festival precinct is FREE with many activities and performances that won’t cost you a cent! Be sure and get to the festival early so you can fit it all in! Early birds can kick off with Ukulele Boot Camp to stamp out those bad practice habits from 8:30[…]
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The Festival Committee is absolutely thrilled to announce Aldrine Guerrero and Aaron Nakamura will headline SPRUKE 2015. Guerrero has travelled the world teaching, playing and performing with his ukulele. However this is his first time in Australia. Joining Guerrero for Brisbane City Sounds performances and a series of festival workshops and concert performances will be his Ukulele Underground partner, Aaron Nakamura. Aldrine is the head instructor at Ukulele Underground. With over a million hits each month, Ukulele[…]
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Applications to perform and present workshops at SPRUKE 2015 are now closed. The theme of SPRUKE 2015 is Uke’n Make Music! Applications from performers who are keen to involve their audiences in music making will be viewed most favourably. We’re looking for workshop suggestions about music making, performance skills and anything ukulele. Submit your performer or workshop presenter application online HERE. Applications close on Sunday 7, June 2015. SPRUKE Brisbane’s Ukulele Festival in 2015 will[…]
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Ukulele players, the uke-curious and their families will want to pencil in a visit to SPRUKE Brisbane’s Ukulele Festival this weekend 20-22 September at Southbank Institute of Technology. Brisbane Ukulele Musicians Society B.U.M.S. will host the three day event with a program consisting of performances, workshops, uke jams, open mics and two evening concerts. Headline acts include Canadian bluesman Manitoba Hal Brolund, with homegrown talent Leah Flanagan, Mic Conway (Captain Matchbox), Ukeologist Thom Jackson from Melbourne,[…]
Read More »Thom Jackson, Australia’s Melbourne-based Prince of Uke, will be performing at the Friday evening concert and conducting his Uke’n Already Play workshop on the weekend. Thom’s a popular performer at ukulele and folk festivals around the country. He’s young, he sings pretty and his ukulele smells of rich mahogany. At SPRUKE, singer–song writer and “ukulele virtuoso” Thom takes the four-stringed pocket rocket on a journey from folk ballads to hip hop to post-apocalyptic love songs[…]
Read More »The Pockets are joining us for SPRUKE! Three gals and one dashing guy — Brisbane-based, The Pockets, like to swing it old style with melodic harmonies reminiscent of the vocal interludes of 1940 radio shows. Kellee Green, Kylie Southwell, Joyclyn Vincent and Samuel Vincent will charm you with songs of frivolity, nostalgia and romance accompanied by an ensemble of ukuleles, melodica, kazoos and the occasional appearance of Betty the banjo.
Read More »We are excited to announce international Ukulele Bluesman Manitoba Hal will perform at SPRUKE. One of a handful of authentic blues performers performing with the ukulele today, Manitoba Hal is also an accomplished guitarist and songwriter. As well as writing his own blues tunes, Hal also covers traditional songs after giving them his own flavor. His songs also breathe with hints of Tin Pan Alley, hit parade, rock, gospel, and folk. Hal is influenced by artists[…]
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