Participate in the June 2026 Member Challenge – WIN $2,095 Kanile’a Ukulele

[jasdel]

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@leb397 and @mysticrick Loved the duet…what a treat it was to hear you playing together, and the performance was great!

For this month, I chose Kemp’s Jig. As always, I enjoyed listening to everyone’s submissions! 🙂

[turbopstros]

Hey, how’s it going? Here is my Jasmine Flower take.

I have to say, that it’s much harder to learn without premium features.
Did my best, and as advised by Andrew last month, I switched to hard chair plus also used a strap to hold the uke for me in good position

[uketime]

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Hello all, here is my attempt at Cielito Lindo. I felt I could have used another solid month of practise as this is definitely above my skill and comfort level, but I really do love the song and am so glad to be learning it. I have noticed that almost all memorize their song and wonder if you can offer any hints on how to do this, even though I played this song everyday, I still struggle to play by memory alone. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching all the entries again this month, you are all very talented!!

[karenj]

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Here’s my June submission of Red is the Rose. I spent muuch of the month working on Sakura, but ultimately wasn’t feeling good about it and moved on to Red is the Rose, a song I had posted for a challenge in 2019. Time sure does fly by! I can see a bit of improvement over the years, yet I continue to struggle to focus on progress and not perfection. This is the best of my million takes and I admit to not taking the time to memorize. Happy 250 Independence Day Birthday to those who celebrate.

Take care,
Karen

[barborapolach]

Hello my beautiful peoplele,

Thank you for this music selection. If it weren’t for the June challenge, I would never have played “Jasmine Flower.” It was fun. 💛

[monika101]

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Hi!
This is my version of “Mo Li Hua”.

This song was very challenging for me. At the high tones it was really tricky to place the fingers correctly. Perhaps that would be easier with a bigger uke.
A also had difficulties with the change from open A to Am (3 5).
But, anyway, here it is. 🙂

Best regards, Monika

[lynnzo]

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This is my June submission of Cielito Lindo.
I’m glad the non-vocal option was available.😁

[takuan]

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Hi everyone,

this is my submission for the June 2026 member challenge.

I hope it still counts.

First things first: I’m playing a baritone ukulele, not a low-G.

I’m also far from an intermediate player. I have some basic bass guitar experience, but I only bought this ukulele two months ago and only discovered this challenge about two weeks ago.

I chose “Sakura, Sakura” because it was already on my bucket list to learn someday on a string instrument. When I read the challenge description, it felt like the right moment to try it, so I went for it.

This is the first song I’ve ever learned in fingerstyle, so it’s definitely not perfect yet, but I really enjoyed the learning process. I also saw there will be a short summer break in the challenges, so I’ll use that time to go through the courses on the site.

Cheers,
David

[katazumiri]

@takuan – Well done!

Kanilea giveaways usually don’t take place in the summer — that’s for sure.
However, the challenges themselves continue. Sometimes the format or prizes change (you can check the forum to see what was offered last year). In any case, if you have the time and interest, keep an eye out for announcements regarding the summer challenges 🙂

[Andrew]

Friendly Reminder – The deadline for receiving an entry into the giveaway is tonight at 11:59 PM ET (check your local time zone).

[abster]

I am a premier member:
Kindly attached entry below for Abhay and Simran for June: Cielito Lindo

[gi_gi_]

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I have loved everyone’s submissions. Thanks for the encouragement to not give up this month 🙂 Everytime someone posted I kept going.

Andrew, I don’t know if I’ve ever told you how much I love your uke playing. You are an amazing Musician. Thanks so much for sharing your art with us. Red is the Rose is so beautiful. The way you play it is mesmerizing. Here’s my submission. See you all next month. Keep going.

[janaq1]

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Hi everyone,
for me the choice was clear this month. I fell in love with La vie en rose many years ago while listening to Louis Armstrong. So this song has been on my list for quite a few years now. I finally gave it a try. But there’s still lots to work on.

[ldarrow]

I am premium member.
Nothing like waiting until the last minute. I get ‘recording jitters’ and the urgency of waiting until the lat minute made it worse. I have some fumble fingers going on. I did Red is the Rose. Have done this one before, but really love it so did a little refresher.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 6 days ago by ldarrow.

[leb397]

Thank you @jasdel it wasn’t an easy piece by a long shot. You did a nice job.
So many great performances. @abster beautiful playing and lovely singing by your sister.
Great job everyone. One of the more challenging selections of songs to learn for this month, I think.

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