{"id":11844,"date":"2025-02-02T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:39:07","slug":"world-ukulele-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/02\/world-ukulele-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Ukulele Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 2 is “World Play Your Ukulele Day.” This holiday was established in 2011 by Mike Lynch (a.k.a. “Ukulele Mike”; see below). In the original announcement, Mike Lynch kept his expectations low. “Take your uke out of its case,” he said, “and play it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simple enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screen grab from Mike Lynch’s original Youtube video announcing World Ukulele Day. Click the image to see his video on Youtube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

OK. I did that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What else can I do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike had a suggestion: “Find someone who needs a smile. You might take it to an elder care, you might take it to a shut-in….” In other words, try to make the world a better place by playing your ukulele. But I went on a field trip with teens from our congregation’s youth group, which didn’t leave time for ukulele excursions. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Ukulele Mike<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael B. Lynch (1945-2018) was a career music educator and an accomplished ukulele player. As a youth,<\/a> he played in a ukulele ensemble led by the legendary ukulele educator Chalmers Doane. Beginning in 2009, he produced a popular series of instructional Youtube videos<\/a> under the name “Ukulele Mike.” He also published a number of instructional CDs and books, still available through his website that his wife continues to maintain.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 2 is “World Play Your Ukulele Day.” This holiday was established in 2011 by Mike Lynch (a.k.a. “Ukulele Mike”; see below). In the original announcement, Mike Lynch kept his expectations low. “Take your uke out of its case,” he said, “and play it.” Simple enough. OK. I did that. What else can I do? … Continue reading “World Ukulele Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[841,910],"class_list":["post-11844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-ukulele","tag-world-ukulele-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12945,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions\/12945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}