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Friday Featured E-Store Item: Luna Ukulele Suitcase Amp

Luna Ukulele Suitcase Amp

Take your show on the road in style with Luna’s vintage suitcase-look ukulele amp! Vintage tolex and a leather handle are authentic touches, crowned by vintage Hawaiian travel stickers that you can place yourself. Guitar strap holders allow you to strap on the amp, plug in your uke and play untethered and unleashed! The amp opens for easy battery changes,storage of the included AC adapter, and even has a compartment with velcro lid to house your keys, cell phone, wallet or a small snack!

Forget the Paperwork, Grab a Ukulele!

Forget the Paperwork, Grab a Ukulele!

Put down that paperwork, leave your pens and pencils at your desk, shut down your computer (but maybe wait until you read the rest of this post) and grab a ukulele! We’ve got them in a variety of shapes and sizes. Whether you need a Pineapple uke, or something to take with you on your next vacation, or a uke that’s been hand-built by local luthiers, we’ve got all the bases covered here at OFC!

Intro to Ukulele with Joel Jacques

Joel Jacques Ukulele Extraordinaire at the Ottawa Folklore Centre

Come find your musical voice through learning to sing and play the ukulele with Joel Jacques. This introduction to the Ukulele is for those picking up the ukulele for the first time. Students will learn to play the ukulele as an accompaniment to voice and sing popular songs together in a group setting. We’ll cover a variety of accompaniment techniques to get you playing interesting and fun versions of songs you know and love. At least one song per week will be covered (yes, we can get you playing a song in a week!!!). Though the focus will be on playing songs together in order to learn the basic techniques of the ukulele, certain fundamentals of music will be introduced and worked through so that the ground is broken for future musical study, whether through further courses or through independent study. 4 weeks, Mondays, 6:30-7:30, May 6-Jun 3, $68 members, $80 non members. GUKE13.05B1

Friday Featured E-Store Item: Worth Ukulele Strings

Worth Ukulele Strings

Using the same Fluoro-Carbon material as fishing lines, Worth have created a ukulele string that’s coveted by players all over the world. Worth’s brown strings boast a warmer tone than the standard clear strings, which makes them perfect for that classic, mellow Hawaiian Ukulele sound!

Friday Featured E-Store Item: Aquila Red Series Ukulele Strings

Aquila Red Series Ukulele Strings

We’re three weeks into String Forward month and so far we’ve featured string winders, D’Addario’s new Balanced Tension electric guitar strings and a tunable bodhran (nothing to do with strings, but it was St. Patrick’s Day!). For today’s Friday Featured E-Store Item we’re jumping back on the string bandwagon with Aquila’s Red Series ukulele strings.

Ukulele Group Lessons in March

Ukulele Group Lessons

Group Ùkulele for Beginners Come find your musical voice through learning to sing and play the ukulele. This introduction to the Ukulele is for those picking up the ukulele for the first time. Students will learn to play the ukulele as an accompaniment to voice and sing popular songs together in a group setting. We’ll [...]

Spot the Uke: Mahalo Art Series Edition

Spot the Uke!

It’s time for another round of Spot the Uke! You’ll need to check your ego at the door if you want any shot at spotting this Ukulele. What’s your opening move going to be? Will you visit to our e-store for a picture of the Mahalo Art Series Ukulele cleverly concealed in this photo? Or can you already see the endgame unfolding before of you? We’re only a few moves in, but we recommend forfeiting this unwinnable match. We’ve got you beaten this time for sure.

This Just In: Snark SN6 Ukulele Tuner

Snark SN6 Ukulele tuner

A snazzy little tuner that looks good and works great. The adjustable head allows you to position the face of the tuner anywhere you want, or to fold it up for easy pocket storage and it features a frequency range tailored to ukuleles.

Group Ukulele For Beginners – April 2-23

Come find your musical voice through learning to sing and play the ukulele with Joel Jacques. This introduction to the Ukulele is for those picking up the ukulele for the first time. Students will learn to play the ukulele as an accompaniment to voice and sing popular songs together in a group setting. We’ll cover a variety of accompaniment techniques to get you playing interesting and fun versions of songs you know and love. At least one song per week will be covered (yes, we can get you playing a song in a week!!!). Though the focus will be on playing songs together in order to learn the basic techniques of the ukulele, certain fundamentals of music will be introduced and worked through so that the ground is broken for future musical study, whether through further courses or through independent study. 4 weeks, Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30, Apr 2-23, $68 members, $80 non members.

This Just In: April Group Lessons

April Group Lessons

We’ve got ukulele, banjo, guitar and djembe group lessons for April up on our calendar. Click the thumbnail for more detailed info.

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Friday Featured E-Store Item

Friday Featured E-Store Item: Larrivee OM02 Acoustic Guitar Larrivee OM02

The Larrivee OM02 Acoustic Guitar features all solid wood construction, Canadian Sitka spruce sound board & bracing, Sapele back & sides, African ebony fretboard & bridge, Canadian maple body binding, three piece mahogany neck, symmetrical X-bracing, dovetail neck joint, rounded Larrivee headstock, white inlaid Larrivee logo, multi strip rosette, chrome tuners w/ 18:1 ratio, ivoroid fretboard binding, traditional Larrivee tortoise style pickguard, microdot fretboard markers, limited lifetime warranty and comes with a hardshell case.

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  • Ottawa Folklore Centre
    1111 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3X4
    613.730-2887 | 1-800-385-FOLK (3655)
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  • Monday-Friday  10 am to 9 pm
  • Saturday  9 am to 5:30 pm
  • Sunday  12 pm to 5 pm

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