A New Find, From Oldsmar

My friend William asked me if this could be a photo of his dad playing the uke in 1920 at a picnic in Oldsmar, Florida. 

I said "It might be, but this is not your father's Oldsmar, Bill."

And in the truth-is-stranger-than-Gary's-humor category, it turns out Oldsmar was actually founded by auto magnate Ransom E. Olds. No word on whether REO played the uke himself. 

Here's the photo, from the State Library and Archives of Florida.

Four More Free Uke Tab Books from Uke Hunt

Have you run out of tunes whilst* sheltering in place?

Al Wood, impresario over at Uke Hunt, has released four more free ebooks.

• Songs of the 60s
• Gaming Theme Tunes
• Beatles on Uke
• US TV Themes

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(Al is a Brit, so I used this as an opportunity to say "whilst." Heh.)

10 Year Old Writes Epic BLM Anthem

Meet ten-year-old Naima Nascimento. According to this article in Rolling Stone, Naima "wrote a song to help her process her feelings about the recent deaths of innocent black people. 

"Nascimento’s mom, Sequoia Chappellet-Volpini, posted the video of her daughter singing and playing a ukulele on Instagram and Facebook in June and the video has gained nearly 1 million views on Facebook alone."

Simple, but moving. Video at the link.

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