It’s OFFICIAL now! Ukulele will be featured regularly at Maine Fiddle Camp. For the past several years, ukuleles have been very prevalent at Camp (see this video of a “barn dance” where ukes are “all over” the final foxtrot! ), so much so that we are now going to make a big deal about it.
June Weekend I
Kenny Raskin
Kenny first picked up a ukulele at age 8, when a family friend bought him one. Now 50 plus years later, he’s not half bad! He’s got a menagerie of them, from soprano to baritone, and plays a variety of styles, swing music being his favorite. Kenny has been an actor and physical comedian for 35 years, and has performed internationally, as well as on Broadway. He also starred as the lead clown in Cirque du Soleil’s Nouvelle Experience. He and Francis Berks make the acoustic duo The Doppelgangers.
June Week
Kenny Raskin
Kenny first picked up a ukulele at age 8, when a family friend bought him one. Now 50 plus years later, he’s not half bad! He’s got a menagerie of them, from soprano to baritone, and plays a variety of styles, swing music being his favorite. Kenny has been an actor and physical comedian for 35 years, and has performed internationally, as well as on Broadway. He also starred as the lead clown in Cirque du Soleil’s Nouvelle Experience. He and Francis Berks make the acoustic duo The Doppelgangers.
August Week I
Nina Miller
Nina began her love affair with the ukulele at the tender age of 8, after her parents went to Hawaii and brought back a sweet little soprano with painted Hula dancers. Four decades later, she picked it up again and started the FLUKES (Fun-Loving Ukulele Society), a 30-member ukulele ensemble based in Portland, Maine, and has been blissfully plucking, strumming and singing at fairs, festivals, memory-care, rehab, assisted-living facilities and nursing homes around the state of Maine. She is a Teaching Artist at 317 Main Community Center in Yarmouth, Maine, offering ukulele classes and leading the CUKES (Community Ukes). When not parading around with ukulele in hand, Nina can be found tooting her own (French) horn in the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She can be reached at Ninamiller207@gmail.com. ALOHA!
August Week II
Kenny Raskin
Kenny first picked up a ukulele at age 8, when a family friend bought him one. Now 50 plus years later, he’s not half bad! He’s got a menagerie of them, from soprano to baritone, and plays a variety of styles, swing music being his favorite. Kenny has been an actor and physical comedian for 35 years, and has performed internationally, as well as on Broadway. He also starred as the lead clown in Cirque du Soleil’s Nouvelle Experience. He and Francis Berks make the acoustic duo The Doppelgangers.