At the July Meet and Mingle our guest speaker was James Harrison, who recently moved to Benalla.
James is a talented musician specialising in playing the Ukulele, but he also brought along other instruments including a banjo, mandolin, violin, harmonica and a ukulele banjo mandolin which is a rare instrument. There were also three tambourines, two of which he lent to ‘helpers’ in the audience to increase the musical sound.
As there were several would be ukulele players in the audience, James started with telling us about the fingering of the ukulele and also gave a brief lesson on how to construct chords.
During the morning James touched on aspects of his life including the fact that he had taught himself the violin during the 2020 lockdown.
After teaching the audience the fundamentals of playing he produced a song book and then led everyone in singing.
Perhaps the highlight of the morning was James playing the harmonica with the aid of a neck brace and the banjo at the same time.
James is a talented musician specialising in playing the Ukulele, but he also brought along other instruments including a banjo, mandolin, violin, harmonica and a ukulele banjo mandolin which is a rare instrument. There were also three tambourines, two of which he lent to ‘helpers’ in the audience to increase the musical sound.
As there were several would be ukulele players in the audience, James started with telling us about the fingering of the ukulele and also gave a brief lesson on how to construct chords.
During the morning James touched on aspects of his life including the fact that he had taught himself the violin during the 2020 lockdown.
After teaching the audience the fundamentals of playing he produced a song book and then led everyone in singing.
Perhaps the highlight of the morning was James playing the harmonica with the aid of a neck brace and the banjo at the same time.
We all had a great morning, and thank James for sharing his musical ability with us.
Our guest speaker for Meet and Mingle in August will be Lucy Mitchell-Long from Benalla Health. Lucy will speak on Health Literacy which is a subject we can all probably do with some help on.
Margaret Jenkins
Our guest speaker for Meet and Mingle in August will be Lucy Mitchell-Long from Benalla Health. Lucy will speak on Health Literacy which is a subject we can all probably do with some help on.
Margaret Jenkins
