The Beginning
December 2010 - Jeannie and friends playing ukulele at The Mallow hotel.
This event was the xmas breakup party for Thursday Night Choir.
From that time Jeannie and a group of friends met and played Ukulele and sang together on a Thursday night.
2010 - The Mallow
2012 - 2013 Irish Murphy's
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2014 - 2015 The Black Hill Hotel, and Seymour's On Lydiard
Black Hill
Seymours
2016 - The Bunch of Grapes Hotel
2016 - our first gig at Clunes
2016 at the Buninyong Twilight Market
2016 Xmas
2017 BoG
for a change - at Suttons House of Music
2018 BoG
2019 BoG Crazy hats
2019 - our xmas party
Our secret (!) collection to say thank you to Jeannie King for all she does, enabled Jeannie to get the uke of her dreams!
2020 - well it started well!
2020 - Jan - Ballarat's Best for Bushfire Relief
2020 - February - Bridge Mall Market
2020 - Feb - Rotary Function Gig at the RACV Resort in Creswick
One of our most fun gigs ever:
2020- March - in the Bridge Street Mall
Then we were in Lock down to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus - but Jeannie kept us together by posting a live event for us every Thursday night since!
The organising group had Zoom meetings:
August 2020
While in lockdown, we made our first virtual video, with many BUG people contributing to He Ya - for Play Music on the Porch Day 29th August 2020.
December 2020 - our second virtual get together - Happy Christmas/War is Over
2021 - still COVID
In 2021 most of the organising group still considered COVID-19 too big a risk to our ukulele friends to risk meeting in person.
Others thought it would be ok to meet outside under COVID-19 regulations, and started a new organising group, but the effort of actually organising this meant that it never eventuated.
2021 - 2022
Many smaller groups of people who used to be in BUG still meet and play regularly, often outside.
2022 onwards - U3A
The university of the Third Age, in Ballarat runs various levels of Ukulele lessons, and groups who just play for fun or play and perform.
Membership of U3A is $50 for the year, but then you have a world of lessons to choose from.
https://www.u3aballarat.org.au/