Ukulele Festival 2009
On Saturday, November 21st, the Advanced Ukulele Group went to a Kiwilele Festival. The Kiwilele are a massed orchestra of 1300 ukulele playing school children.
We were going to try to make a world record of having the most people playing ukulele together. We had a competition of which school decorated their gazebos the best. Some schools had pictures, balloons and ENPS had both paintings and balloons. First prize was a free ukulele for every student of the winning school. There were 1300 kiwilele players and their parents, friends and teachers.
At 12:30, all of the kiwilele players then started to play all of the music that was in the booklets they were given. The music was all written by Andrew Fagan and Mr. Parker who were also playing. When we all played, it sounded very, very good.
Read about us the New Zealand Herald on this link below:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/arts-literature/news/article.cfm?c_id=18&objectid=10609689
or here is the link if you’d like to have a look.
http://tvnz.co.nz/tagata-pasifika/s2009-e37-ukelele-video-3224832
We would like to thank Mr Faulder for being so awesome on the day and helping us get ready along with Mrs. De Marigny who helped to make this all possible for us.
They are both stars in our eyes.
By Dalziel and Keisuke, Room 16