{"id":736,"date":"2013-06-01T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calirose.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:58:45","slug":"always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is a flurry of music happenings around Culver City these days. My new ukulele CD \u201cSmile, Smile, Smile\u201d is getting mastered and will soon be sent, via internet \u201ctubes,\u201d to the CD\u00a0plant<\/em>\u00a0in New Jersey to be pressed and packaged. Whoo-whoo! Hubby Craig and I are preparing for our mid-July swing through Virginia, Washington D.C. and Baltimore where we will perform and teach ukulele workshops. Details are coming soon. \u00a0Washington D.C. is my hometown and I haven\u2019t been back in \u201cdem parts\u201d for an embarrassingly long time. We are looking forward to hanging out with family and friends and I want to check out one geographic site in particular. No, not the marble monuments or illustrious museums. I want to see the big red brick apartment building near Macomb Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Northwest D.C. which is the first \u201chome\u201d I remember as a little girl. According to Google satellite maps, it\u2019s still there!<\/p>\n

Amidst all the planning and activities, the ukulele becomes an extra joy and respite for me. Meeting with my classes gives me a real booster shot of \u201cfeel good.\u201d Twice a week. We just had a big show at the Culver City Senior Center. It was billed prominently in the May Newsletter as the \u201cUkulele & Dance Showcase.\u201d And what might that be? Let your imaginations run wild for a moment.<\/p>\n

Done?<\/p>\n

So here we are, The CC Strummers, doing a half hour set of sing-a-long-able and dance-along-able songs. Then the ballroom dancers appear, gliding across the floor, all fluffed and fancy, as the audience sways to their pre-recorded music. Soon they are followed by the hula dancers, entering stage right, wearing grassy things, flowers\u2026and a lot of skin. The audience really likes THAT. After their grand finale\u2014a fiery Tahitian dance to the theme from Hawaii 5-0\u2014The CC Strummers launch into \u201cLet\u2019s Twist Again\u201d and suddenly ballroom dancers, hula mamas, even line dancers appear and snatch deliriously happy people from the audience to join the party and shake their booty. It is a very nice Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to us, one of our strummers, Keith S., entrusts his wife, (thank you Linda!), with the family video camera and she surreptitiously captures us singing and playing the wonderfully irreverent Eric Idle song, \u201cAlways Look on the Bright Side of Life.\u201d Yes I modify the arrangement a little and replace a popular curse word with a more benign version. Can you say \u201cgrit\u201d? We love this song, replete with sound effect mavens and happy whistlers who can toot and play the uke at the same time.<\/p>\n

Grab your smile for the day and check out the video!\u00a0Click Here!<\/a><\/p>\n

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There is a flurry of music happenings around Culver City these days. My new ukulele CD \u201cSmile, Smile, Smile\u201d is getting mastered and will soon be sent, via internet \u201ctubes,\u201d to the CD\u00a0plant\u00a0in New Jersey to be pressed and packaged. Whoo-whoo! Hubby Craig and I are preparing for our mid-July swing through Virginia, Washington D.C. and Baltimore where we will perform and teach ukulele workshops. Details are coming soon. \u00a0Washington D.C. is my hometown and I haven\u2019t been back in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70,71],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentry","tag-sing-a-long-songs","tag-ukulele-group"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"blog entry"}],"post_tag":[{"value":70,"label":"sing-a-long songs"},{"value":71,"label":"ukulele group"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cali Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/author\/crbauthor\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"blog entry","slug":"blogentry","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":139,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":139,"category_description":"","cat_name":"blog entry","category_nicename":"blogentry","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":70,"name":"sing-a-long songs","slug":"sing-a-long-songs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":70,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":71,"name":"ukulele group","slug":"ukulele-group","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":71,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}