{"id":760,"date":"2013-06-20T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T04:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calirose.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2013-06-20T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T04:22:17","slug":"have-ukulele-will-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/have-ukulele-will-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"HAVE UKULELE, WILL TRAVEL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am putting on my \u201cyou-gotta-toot-your-own-horn-because-no-one-will-do-it-for-you\u201d hat and sharing some traveling news with you.<\/p>\n

Hubby and I are leaving earthquake country for the land of lightning bugs, killer humidity and summer thunderstorms. The little slice of earth where I grew up. Washington D.C. We will be exercising our rent-a-car on what the locals call \u201cThe Beltway.\u201d I am hoping it is called this because it\u2019s a\u00a0cinch<\/em>\u00a0to drive. But I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

This is a working vacation. Let me start with the \u201cvacation\u201d part. Most of you recall that I recently found a missing trunk of my family tree thanks to Google and Facebook. Connecting with them has taken us to Indianapolis and Arizona and now we\u2019ll be hanging out with the Baltimore ohana.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick\u00a0Cliff Notes<\/em>\u00a0review:<\/h2>\n

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My great grandparents escaped from Russia, landed in America and dropped roots in Baltimore. They had five children. The oldest, Jenny, was my grandmother and the youngest, Sidney was the musical prodigy in the family. But something mysterious happened when Sidney grew up. He disappeared. Like whoosh\u2026 At least that\u2019s my mother’s story and she has repeated it like a mantra year after year. \u201cWhatever happened to Sidney?\u201d And then the Internet\u00a0happened<\/em>\u00a0and Google. When I typed in his name, I found his daughter. And when I found his daughter, I found his other four children. Professional musicians all…<\/p>\n

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Halaine, Cali and Laura at Sony Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then two more cousins friended me on Facebook. They are my Baltimore clan. A couple years ago Halaine and Laura visited us in Los Angeles and it was like I suddenly had two new sisters. For an only child with parents who were only children, it was and IS a revelation to discover family.<\/p>\n

Craig and I are excited to spend time with our ukulele family too. Here is the\u00a0what<\/em>,\u00a0where\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0when<\/em>:<\/h2>\n

Saturday, July 13<\/strong>, we will do an early afternoon set at the\u00a0Lake Ann Ukulele Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Reston, Virginia. This is a quaint town center and an altogether lovely place to hang out, enjoy the music, food and great people watching. Family friendly and free.<\/p>\n

Sunday, July 14<\/strong>, Craig and I are giving workshops exclusively tailored for The Northern Virginia Ukulele Ensemble (NVUE). We\u2019re taking one song, \u201cSway,\u201d and spicing it up with fancy strums (Cali) and fingerpicking (Craig). Then we bring the two workshops together and get the song performance-ready! Afterwards Craig and I will do a mini-concert and lead a kanikapila for all those in attendance. Workshops and concert are a Caf\u00e9 Montmartre<\/a>, also in Reston, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Workshop Fee: $20 for NVUE members
\nWorkshop Fee: $35 for guests and other non-members
\nClick here<\/a>\u00a0for more information and to make reservations.<\/p>\n

The following\u00a0Saturday, July 20<\/strong>, we\u2019re doing workshops and a mini-concert for the ukulele lovers at\u00a0The House of Musical Traditions<\/a>. Actually they have secured another location for us to do our thing: The Seekers Church in the Northwest part of Washington D.C. So for all of you folks in the neighborhood who are \u201cseeking\u201d some new ukulele thrills\u2014fabulous strums, finger-picking styles and chord melodies, playing grooves that you feel in your belly and a fun concert, this is for you. Check the flyer below for all the details. This will be one very splendid afternoon and we look forward to sharing it with you.<\/p>\n

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So here\u2019s a toast to family and friends and music!<\/p>\n

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I am putting on my \u201cyou-gotta-toot-your-own-horn-because-no-one-will-do-it-for-you\u201d hat and sharing some traveling news with you. Hubby and I are leaving earthquake country for the land of lightning bugs, killer humidity and summer thunderstorms. The little slice of earth where I grew up. Washington D.C. We will be exercising our rent-a-car on what the locals call \u201cThe Beltway.\u201d I am hoping it is called this because it\u2019s a\u00a0cinch\u00a0to drive. But I don\u2019t think so. This is a working vacation. Let me start … 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":"","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":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"blog entry"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cali Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/author\/crbauthor\/"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"blog entry","slug":"blogentry","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":138,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":138,"category_description":"","cat_name":"blog entry","category_nicename":"blogentry","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}