{"id":12942,"date":"2026-02-01T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:41:18","slug":"world-ukulele-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/02\/world-ukulele-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"World Ukulele Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actually, February 2 is World Ukulele Day. But Mary Beth, our music director, decided we would celebrate it today, by accompanying the first hymn in our Sunday service. We had maybe two minutes of rehearsal, which is why the photo below shows us all looking at the song sheets on the music stands. But we played it through, we didn’t totally suck, and we had fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screen grab from the livestream. L-R: Mary Beth, Steve, Micah, me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mike Lynch, who organized the first World Ukulele Day, said the goal was simple: \u201cTake your uke out of its case and play it.\u201d Beyond that, he said you could use your ukulele to bring some fun and joy into the world. I don’t know how much joy we brought into our Sunday service, but we certainly brought some fun. Besides, Mike Lynch often played uke at his church, so what we did was very much in the original spirit of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real World Ukulele Day is tomorrow. Plan now to take your uke out of the case and play it….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually, February 2 is World Ukulele Day. But Mary Beth, our music director, decided we would celebrate it today, by accompanying the first hymn in our Sunday service. We had maybe two minutes of rehearsal, which is why the photo below shows us all looking at the song sheets on the music stands. But we … 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":[910],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-world-ukulele-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942","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=12942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12946,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions\/12946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}