Join us on Friday April 19th for a strumming workshop and concert with Casey MacGill!
Tickets available here: buytickets.at/anacapaukulele/254289
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Join us for a special workshop by Casey MacGill followed by an entertaining and energetic performance.
The workshop, “My Three Strums,” will teach participants of all levels techniques to master rhythms with strumming. (See details below.) Casey has been playing the ‘ukulele for MANY years and has had a very full and interesting journey. More information about Casey can be found at caseymacgill.com.
Tickets are available here (click Ticket Information button) and at Anacapa Ukulele (cash only if purchasing at Anacapa Ukulele).
*Please note the venue is NOT at Anacapa Ukulele. We will notify ticket holders if we make a change.) It is being held indoors at Academy Dance Studio.
Here is a sampling of what Case MacGill will be sharing with us:
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS from Casey MacGill
My Three Strums
This is a survey course that covers the three main strums that I utilize in my performances.
Swing Strum
I will show you the swing strum as played by the great rhythm guitarists of the 1930’s. You’ll get the techniques to make a crisp swing dance rhythm, and learn a couple swing standards, too. It is the basic building block for playing swing music.
Shuffle Strum
The shuffle strum is on the backbeat, and it’s a backstroke. We’ll learn the feel that connected swing to rock and roll, and do a couple fun tunes like Palm Springs Jump and Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie.
Rhumba Strum
This is the most complex of the strums, but we break it down into three bite‐size morsels and learn a couple classics like Under the Boardwalk and Save the Last Dance for Me. This is a strum of my own invention and provides more of a Latin feel.
Casey MacGill's Biography
Casey MacGill performs music that swings. Nat "King" Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is American music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole. At the core of his sound are his band's sometimes sweet, sometimes rough-hewn three-part harmony vocals and a piano-ukulele-bass-and-drums rhythm section that swings in a variety of textures.
Casey MacGill is the heart and soul of the band. From California, he is a classic Hollywood character in appearance and style. MacGill plays boogie-woogie, swing, and stride piano. He blows a lyrical jazz cornet, and his most unique instrumental voice is a 6-string tenor ukulele. He has been singing and arranging vocal harmonies for over 40 years, in a career that stretches from Los Angeles (Mood Indigo, feature films "Frances" and "Swing Shift") to Spokane, WA (The Spirits of Rhythm and the neo-swing classic CD "Jump") to Broadway (The musical "Swing") and finally to Seattle (most recently with the Blue 4 Trio). "I've played a lot of music with a lot of people," he says "and one thing I've learned is to tailor my arrangements to the individual players. It gives each musical situation a unique sound." He steers the band from his piano bench, alternately cruising along and sweating feverishly, switching intuitively between the ukulele and the piano and the cornet, singing and scatting, sometimes all within the same song.
With his former Seattle band, The Blue 4 Trio, Casey released 3 CDs, the most recent of which is Barrelhouse. From the familiar standards ("Out of Nowhere") to boogie-woogie ("Cow Cow Boogie") to vocal pyrotechnics ("Changes") to classic ballads ("Small Fry") to all out good time stomp ("Barrelhouse", a MacGill original) this CD is already considered by many his best yet. The band also toured extensively in Europe, performing for enthusiastic swing dancers in festivals and dance camps.
Tickets available here: buytickets.at/anacapaukulele/254289
Scroll down for Casey Mac Gill's biography
Join us for a special workshop by Casey MacGill followed by an entertaining and energetic performance.
The workshop, “My Three Strums,” will teach participants of all levels techniques to master rhythms with strumming. (See details below.) Casey has been playing the ‘ukulele for MANY years and has had a very full and interesting journey. More information about Casey can be found at caseymacgill.com.
Tickets are available here (click Ticket Information button) and at Anacapa Ukulele (cash only if purchasing at Anacapa Ukulele).
*Please note the venue is NOT at Anacapa Ukulele. We will notify ticket holders if we make a change.) It is being held indoors at Academy Dance Studio.
Here is a sampling of what Case MacGill will be sharing with us:
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS from Casey MacGill
My Three Strums
This is a survey course that covers the three main strums that I utilize in my performances.
Swing Strum
I will show you the swing strum as played by the great rhythm guitarists of the 1930’s. You’ll get the techniques to make a crisp swing dance rhythm, and learn a couple swing standards, too. It is the basic building block for playing swing music.
Shuffle Strum
The shuffle strum is on the backbeat, and it’s a backstroke. We’ll learn the feel that connected swing to rock and roll, and do a couple fun tunes like Palm Springs Jump and Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie.
Rhumba Strum
This is the most complex of the strums, but we break it down into three bite‐size morsels and learn a couple classics like Under the Boardwalk and Save the Last Dance for Me. This is a strum of my own invention and provides more of a Latin feel.
Casey MacGill's Biography
Casey MacGill performs music that swings. Nat "King" Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is American music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole. At the core of his sound are his band's sometimes sweet, sometimes rough-hewn three-part harmony vocals and a piano-ukulele-bass-and-drums rhythm section that swings in a variety of textures.
Casey MacGill is the heart and soul of the band. From California, he is a classic Hollywood character in appearance and style. MacGill plays boogie-woogie, swing, and stride piano. He blows a lyrical jazz cornet, and his most unique instrumental voice is a 6-string tenor ukulele. He has been singing and arranging vocal harmonies for over 40 years, in a career that stretches from Los Angeles (Mood Indigo, feature films "Frances" and "Swing Shift") to Spokane, WA (The Spirits of Rhythm and the neo-swing classic CD "Jump") to Broadway (The musical "Swing") and finally to Seattle (most recently with the Blue 4 Trio). "I've played a lot of music with a lot of people," he says "and one thing I've learned is to tailor my arrangements to the individual players. It gives each musical situation a unique sound." He steers the band from his piano bench, alternately cruising along and sweating feverishly, switching intuitively between the ukulele and the piano and the cornet, singing and scatting, sometimes all within the same song.
With his former Seattle band, The Blue 4 Trio, Casey released 3 CDs, the most recent of which is Barrelhouse. From the familiar standards ("Out of Nowhere") to boogie-woogie ("Cow Cow Boogie") to vocal pyrotechnics ("Changes") to classic ballads ("Small Fry") to all out good time stomp ("Barrelhouse", a MacGill original) this CD is already considered by many his best yet. The band also toured extensively in Europe, performing for enthusiastic swing dancers in festivals and dance camps.
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