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“You gave me a voice” – Original Song

Here’s another one of my original songs. It’s called “You gave me a voice” and it raised one particular questions that I will try to answer today.

2nd Austrian Ukulele Festival

I know I’m a little late to the party, but setting up my blog took a bit longer than I expected (been working on it since June), sorry for that. But I still want to do a little recap of the 2nd Austrian Ukulele Festival, even though it already happened in May.

Why ukulele?

So here’s a question that I get asked a lot: “Why ukulele?” And I get it, out of all those instruments out there, why did I choose to play ukulele? To fully answer it, I need to tell you a bit of a back story about me.

The getting along with others

Here’s another comic that the lovely Planet Prudence did after I told her a little story from my ukulele life:

Fighting the fraud police during my Ukulele Retreat

Last weekend I spent two days in a remote but very lovely little village in Lower Austria for a ukulele workshop weekend. Elisabeth Pfeiffer was our host and teacher (if you don’t know her I strongly suggest you check her out). I already attended most of her workshops at least once. It’s always nice toContinue reading “Fighting the fraud police during my Ukulele Retreat”

The broken Ukulele

A couple of months ago I found Planet Prudence on Instagram. She’s an amazing artist and her work captures so much of who I am, that I wanted so support her. Luckily she is on Patreon and I was lucky enough to snatch one of her tiers, where she’s doing a monthly comic with her supporter in it. SinceContinue reading “The broken Ukulele”

nikky.and.the.ukulele – two years in the making

As some of you might have seen on my Instagram, this week I celebrated my two year ukulele-anniversary (or ukeversary). But that’s not entirely true. I bought my first ukulele about 3,5 years ago. It’s the purpleish Tiger soprano ukulele, that I still sometimes feature in my pictures (don’t really play it much these days).Continue reading “nikky.and.the.ukulele – two years in the making”