San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion!

Michael, our friend from Staten Island and a Rebellion Zoom regular, will be in San Francisco on Thanksgiving weekend, so we thought it would be fun to strum off a few Thanksgiving Day calories and do a little in-person jamming with him. Join us ! We'll be meeting in an office space I rent at 1200 Gough Street, at the corner of Gough Street and Geary Blvd. (Some off-street parking and street parking.) We'll play from the Daily Ukulele (Yellow) and Daily Ukulele Leap Year Edition (Blue) books. If you'd like to play something not in either of those books, please bring copies to share. And for those interested, after we play, we can head out for dinner at one of the fun restaurants in Japantown or along the Van Ness corridor.

My office is on the mezzanine level of a secured building. When you arrive, tell the security officer at the front desk that you're here for the ukulele jam on the mezzanine in Suite 600 and he will send you up. If there are problems, please text me at 415-297-4664.

The dropbox link to The Daily Ukulele.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uca82l70r9a4hgjqohsgq/Daily_ukulele_yellow_LINKED_v1.1.pdf?rlkey=44gm13r5gbvhstiv7ibnuojt1&st=dvrcg7n4&dl=0

The dropbox link to the Daily Ukulele - Leap Year Edition:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hy9pnffip1lc1rxs5zc8q/Daily_Ukulele_blue_Leap_Year_LINKED_v1.1.pdf?rlkey=oug9yq9ezckyly3ekj3su539u&st=2hgndbig&dl=0

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON MEETUP!

This month, we will play songs from the most recently updated 2023 San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion Holiday Songbook. There's a dropbox link to the Holiday Songbook below and in the comments. At this meeting, we'll be able to practice holiday songs we'll be playing at the Embarcadero on December 21.

If you'd like to play a song that isn't in the Holiday Songbook, please let me know in advance so I can post access to the chart on our meetup page, and please bring additional copies with you.

Please bring your instrument(s), a floor or table music stand, your singing voices, and your fabulous ukulele spirit!

We'll play music from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, with a short intermission.

We'll go around the room so that everyone can pick songs to play. If you pick a song, you will be encouraged (but not required) to lead it. If you'd like to let the group know in advance which songs you plan to select, please post the songs you choose in the comments, and we'll play one of those songs each time it's your turn to pick a song.

Here's the Dropbox link to the most recently revised San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion Holiday Songbook. Thanks to Melody and Disney Mark for all of their hard work on this songbook.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0g34t95qn51esg8943810/2023-SF-Uke-Rebellion-Holiday-Songbook-with-TOC-rev..pdf?rlkey=6ootqakpiegs4vn10v4g3dbp8&dl=0
If you print this book and use both sides of each page, please be mindful of two-page songs and print those songs so that you can see both pages at once.
(If you printed out an earlier version of this book, you may not need to print every page. Depending on your version, you may only have to substitute a few pages, including the table of contents, which is a new feature for this year's book. Please compare your version to the current version to determine which pages you will need to replace.)
This pdf has an interactive table of contents, so if you're viewing the book on a digital device, you can click in the Table of Contents on the name of the song you'd like to play and your device will take you there.
Please bring this songbook with you.

A voluntary donation of $5 to defray Meetup website costs and to tip our hosts is appreciated. San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion logo kazoos will be available for purchase.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
I do not disclose the location of our in-person jams on the Meetup website. While the date and time of these in-person meetups will still be posted here, I'll be notifying people of the location of these meetups using an email distribution list. If you'd like to be on this list, please email me at sfukerebellion@yahoo.com from the email address you'd like me to add to the distribution list.

COVID UPDATE: Covid has been surging again, and we're heading into flu season. I think it's safe for us to meet, but I strongly encourage people to observe social distancing and other measures, like masking, that have been shown to inhibit the spread of Covid. For the safety of others in the group, please don't attend this meetup if you are not feeling well or if you are experiencing Covid-like symptoms. I won't require people to test for Covid, but I strongly encourage you to test for Covid on Saturday afternoon. From what I understand, most of the people I know who have gotten Covid recently got it from someone who didn't even know they had it at the time of exposure. Thank you in advance for your thoughtfulness.

Let's celebrate the December holidays by playing holiday songs! We'll play music from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Pacific Standard Time. You can choose from the 2023 SF Ukulele Rebellion Holiday Songbook and/or the Daily Ukulele books (dropbox links provided) or send me your own song charts.

To address some Zoom-bombing at our March and October 2025 Zoom meetups, we've started using Zoom's Waiting Room and I will be looking at and implementing additional security procedures for access to Zoom. The Zoom link will appear on this page when you RSVP. If Zoom asks for a passcode, the passcode is Rebellion. The passcode is case-sensitive.

If you'd like to lead a song, please let me know, either by posting here in the comments or by email, which song(s) you would like to lead. The cut-off time for requesting to lead a song is THE TUESDAY BEFORE THE MEETING (for this meeting, Tuesday December 9), even if you're going to be leading a song from one of the Daily Ukulele books or the Groovy Songbook. I'll post a songlist here in advance of our meeting.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEAD A SONG USING SHEET MUSIC OR A CHORD CHART THAT ISN'T IN THE YELLOW BOOK, THE BLUE BOOK, OR THE GROOVY SONGBOOK, PLEASE EMAIL THE DOCUMENT TO ME IN DIGITAL FORMAT IN ADVANCE SO THAT I CAN UPLOAD IT TO DROPBOX AND POST IT ON THE SCREEN FOR OTHERS.
PLEASE NOTE: To accommodate all first song requests, we may not have time to get to all second (or third) song requests. When asking to lead more than one song, please indicate your first and second choices to ensure that, if we can't get to your second request, the song you'd most like to lead is included in that evening's song list. Thank you in advance for your willingness to lead songs and your understanding about how the song list for each meeting is prepared.
You can reach me by email at sfukerebellion@yahoo.com
**************************************************************
Song requests

First song requests

Second song requests

Tribute song
TBD [Jimmy Cliff]

**************************************************************
I'll be sharing all song charts onscreen, but you can download digital copies of the Daily Ukulele books and the pdfs for tonight's songs by following links that will be posted in the comments.

Here's the Dropbox link to the most recently revised San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion Holiday Songbook. Thanks to Melody and Disney Mark for all of their hard work on this songbook.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0g34t95qn51esg8943810/2023-SF-Uke-Rebellion-Holiday-Songbook-with-TOC-rev..pdf?rlkey=6ootqakpiegs4vn10v4g3dbp8&dl=0
The dropbox link to The Daily Ukulele.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uca82l70r9a4hgjqohsgq/Daily_ukulele_yellow_LINKED_v1.1.pdf?rlkey=44gm13r5gbvhstiv7ibnuojt1&st=dvrcg7n4&dl=0
The dropbox link to the Daily Ukulele - Leap Year Edition:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hy9pnffip1lc1rxs5zc8q/Daily_Ukulele_blue_Leap_Year_LINKED_v1.1.pdf?rlkey=oug9yq9ezckyly3ekj3su539u&st=2hgndbig&dl=0
The Dropbox link to the Groovy Song Book used in the Bronco Billy Zoom jams:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ezywmwbck8229gu/2021-05-22_v9_Official%20BBJ%20Virtual%20Song%20Packet.pdf?dl=0

I hope to see you online!