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The Tampa Bay Ukulele Society (TBUS), a non profit 501(c)3 Charitable Organization,  will be holding its 6th Annual Ukulele Day Festival on Sunday March 26th, 2023 in Downtown Dunedin. Each of our previous events have drawn hundreds of attendees  and received widespread media attention. There will be workshops, music by various local ukulele talent at merchant locations during the day, a strum and stroll through town, playalong sessions and a concert in Pioneer Park.

Net proceeds from this event help fund our education, entertainment and community service projects . We are sharing net proceeds 50/50 with the Dunedin Cares Food Bank.

This year the Flea Bitten Dawgs will be doing three workshops during the day and featured talent at the concert in park. The group consists of David Henry Spangler on ukulele and lead vocal, Thom Pallozola on lead ukulele and vocal, and Lee Kram on percussion and vocals. Their song list crosses 10 decades of music. They mix originals in with the covers they love. One of Thom’s songs was recorded by Supe Granda of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, two of David’s song were recorded by the group for the Narrow Boat Sessions, Great Britain’s premier folk music organization. PBS produced a segment of Thom’s involvement with the ukulele which featured The Flea Bitten Dawgs.

Improve your skills with these 3 workshops



Plays well with others@ 10amThis workshop is created to help a group of players, playing like instruments, to sound exciting to an audience. The challenge is to become a group with individuals playing separate parts to a song. We’ll break into different groups with each group learning their section of the arrangement and then put it together to create the song.

Finding Your Inner Chord@ 11:30am This workshop is designed you help you think of chords as sounds instead of a form on the neck. Using the tools you’ll learn, will make your songs interesting and get away from the habit of just strumming through a song. If you are writing songs, this workshop will help you find a better voice for the progressions you use. While this is not a class about theory, we will touch on the basics of chord construction.
 
Percussion workshop@1pm In this workshop we will explore how  different beats help to give a song its character. By learning how different beats move the music, it will help your performances engage better with the audience. We’ll start with basic rhythms and work into more complex. Our goal is to move away from strumming 4 beat to a measure and dig into the structure of the song. While this is a percussion workshop, it is designed for using this knowledge with any instrument you play. We recommend you bring a shaker, or small hand drum, but tapping on your ukulele will work. This workshop comes with take home lesson sheets.

Workshops are $30 each or all three for $60

click this link to buy your ticket and reserve a seat this will sell out as we only have space for 50 students


Here is the tentative schedule of events which will be updated at we approach March 26th.

10am Plays well with others  workshop at Hope Grove Center 431 Main Street 
11:30 Finding your inner chord  workshop at Hope Grove Center 431 Main Street 
12 noon Free Beginner Ukulele Lesson at Pioneer Park
​1pm Dunedin Ukes lead a strum and stroll through Dunedin starts from Pioneer
1pm Childrens concert and play along  in Pioneer Park
1pm Percussion workshop at Hope Grove Center 431 Main Street 
1-4 Big Tiki & The Mai Tais at Honu Restaurant and Tiki Bar
1-4 Pineapple Scruffs at  Fenway Hotel
1-4 Tropical Sons at Dunedin Brewery
2pm Dunedin Ukes playalong jam at Pioneer Park
2:30 Local band performance (TBA) at Pioneer Park
3pm Dunedin Ukes playalong jam at Pioneer Park
​3:30 Local band performance (TBA) at Pioneer Park
​4:00 Renee & The Rollers at Pioneer Park
​4:30 Tropical Sons at Pioneer Park
5:00 Playalong Jam led by (TBA) at Pioneer Park
6:00 The Flea Bitten Dawgs at Pioneer Park
7:00 Super Uke Dance band 
at Pioneer Park



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Merchant Sponsorship

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Tampa Bay Ukulele Day  promises to be even bigger and better as TBUS engages with the Dunedin Merchants to bring entertainment, attendees and fun to their front doors. Merchants participating as sponsors can receive many benefits including their name on promotion advertising (Handout Map, Posters, Social Media Posts, Email Marketing and Event Website) and well as live music performances at their store or restaurant.

There are 4 sponsor levels. (Please select level you prefer and we will contact you)
    
    Soprano $200    (    )    
                Name, Location & Coupon on Event Map

                Name & media link  www.tampabayukulele.com


    Concert $400    (    )    
                40 Minute Live Music Performances at your business

                Solo Ukulele Players Performing 3 Sets @ 11- 2, or  1-4pm
                Name, Location & Coupon on Event Map
                Logo on 200 Posters
                Name & Media Link  www.tampabayukulele.com


    Tenor $600      (    )    
                40 Minute Live Music Performances at your business

                Duo Ukulele Players performing 3 sets @ 11- 2, or  1-4pm
                Facebook Media Promo 4 x in January Prior to event
                Logo, Location & Coupon on Event Map
                Logo on 200 Posters
                Logo & media link www.tampabayukulele.com
    
    Baritone $800     (    )    
​                 40 Minute Live Music Performances at your business

                 Ukulele Bands performing 3 sets @ 11- 2, or  1-4pm
                Facebook Media Promo in March Prior to event
                Email Promo to over 3500 TBUS Members 2x Prior to event
                Live Announcement at Concert
                Logo, Location & Coupon on Event Map
                Logo on 200 Posters
                Logo & media link  www.tampabayukulele.com

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Please email Thomas.m.hood@gmail.com


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