Brittni Paiva

We are excited to announce that Brittni Paiva will be attending the Tahoe Area Uke Fest and will be performing Saturday afternoon at a time to be announced. We may adjust workshop 15 minutes one way or another to make sure everyone who want to see her can do so.

She is also available for individual or group lessons on Sunday after the festival ends for those of you staying in the area. If you are interested in reserving a lesson with Brittni, please email me advise the type of lesson you would like and I will see about setting it up for you!

Hi again! Several of our workshops are nearly sold out. If you are planning to purchase workshop tickets over the next few days, please keep an eye on the workshops & schedules page. We must limit attendance to each to make sure everyone can see and hear well.

Alo-HAA!

We’ll we are inside of two weeks now until Tahoe Area Uke Fest II and we have two more ukes to add to the list of raffle giveaways! First a recap…

Gordon and Char at Mya-Moe have graciously donated our first Grand Prize, a stunning Koa Tenor Tradition pictured at left, built for the fest by Gordon at Mya-Moe Ukuleles. It is gorgeous, both in looks and in sound, and plays wonderfully. It retails for $850 and one of YOU will walk away with it! Thank you so much. Rich and I have both traded of “quality control testing” and we love it. I think Rich is going to buy one soon!

Next, our sponsoring builder from Tahoe Uke Fest I, Mike DaSilva, is building a custom, themed soprano for the event that should be spectacular (as are all of his instruments). Mike built a custom longneck for our 2009 Fest that had everybody drooling. He gave me a hint at the theme of this uke but it’s still largely a secret. We can’t wait. Again, one of YOU will take it home.

Kala Ukulele has generously donated three instruments, a Koa Tenor, a Standard Tenor, and a Travel Soprano, plus a number of electronic tuners, tee-shirts, and more.

And now, Kiwaya USA has donated both a Kiwaya KS-1 mahogany soprano and a Loprinzi walnut soprano to the ever growing stash of loot! That means we will be giving away at least seven ukuleles during the drawings at about 3:30 pm on Saturday! Again, everyone gets a free raffle ticket at the registration desk (where you pick up your workshop tickets) and you can buy more, $1 each, TEN for $5, or FIFTY for $20!

And, in addition to the ukes, we have CDs, Books, Tees, Strings, and more!!!  See you all real soon!

A reminder to all of you who have purchased workshop tickets and SuperTickets. Your tickets will be at the registration desk inside the main festival room. To speed up the retrieval process, please bring a copy of the receipt you should have been emailed at the time of your purchase.

For those of you who have purchased items from our online store, orders for festival tees only have been shipped. Orders including the orange “play uke” tees have not and are expected to ship in the next couple of days. Orders including the Uke Fest glasses will be shipped around March 10. Thanks for your patience, all orders will arrive well before the festival.

If you have any questions, please email rich@playuke.net

Workshop SuperTickets Sold Out: The response to Tahoe Area Uke Fest II contines to be tremendous… Workshop SuperTickets are SOLD OUT!!! There are still limited tickets available for each individual workshop but don’t wait too long! Click here for tickets and schedules.

We are very excited and extremely grateful to announce that BOSE will be providing the sound for our Festival Stage, providing their state-of-the-art, ultra-portable, vertical array systems to the fest. If you haven’t ever played over these amazing P.A. systems, you are in for a treat!

Raffle prizes continue to pour in from all over. Jim Beloff sent in an autographed copy of his famous ukulele book. Several artists who can’t make the trip are sending CD’s. We have all sorts of other great prizes and,of course, the Custom Tenor Ukulele from Mya-Moe, the Custom UkeFest Themed Soprano from Mike DaSilva, and three other ukuleles from Kala. Don’t forget to pick up your free raffle ticket at the registration table just inside the door. You can also buy more tickets if you like to increase your chances. Raffle tickets will be $1 each, 10 for $5, or 50 for $20.

There are no workshops scheduled during the raffle drawings on Saturday afternoon, so plan to be in the main room at 3:45.

The Uke Fest is located at the end of the hall on the second floor. If you’re staying in the Nugget tower, just take the elevator down to the second floor and veer to the right when you exit the elevator hallway.

The Nugget’s block of discounted rooms are also getting down to a precious few. If you haven’t got your reservations yet,  click here for all the details.