{"id":3079,"date":"2013-06-07T17:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:46:31","slug":"native-songs-with-the-uke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/native-songs-with-the-uke\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Songs with the Uke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3080\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClarissaUkelele1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3080\" title=\"ClarissaRizalUkelele\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClarissaUkelele1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClarissaUkelele1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ClarissaUkelele1-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarissa and her uke<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like most of the performers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adakafestival.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adaka Festival<\/a> in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory June 21-27, I will play a 20-minute set.\u00a0 I will sing Tlingit songs and my own originals accompanied by my ukelele on Saturday, June 22 at 1:45pm.\u00a0 Check out the line-up of performers and artists on their website.\u00a0 The Adaka Festival features traditional and contemporary Canadian 1st Nation performers and artists mainly from Yukon and British Columbia, with an occasional Alaskan(!).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing the uke a little over a year &#8211; this tool has become a spiritual\/emotional life-saver &#8211; in my opinion, if you need to be &#8220;saved&#8221; in any way, this is the instrument that can help bring you a sense of balance.\u00a0 I think that if everyone in the world played ukelele, even if they just strummed a few chords every day and didn&#8217;t sing, that eventually, the world would have consistent peace!\u00a0 Yep.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adakafestival.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adaka Festival <\/a>also features artists from the Yukon\/British Columbia\/Alaska region.\u00a0 During the Festival week of June 21-27, I will also be teaching an introduction to Chilkat weaving class along side Ann Smith who will be teaching Ravenstail, and Ann and I are\u00a0 spearheading another Indigenous Weavers&#8217; Gathering .\u00a0 On Friday, June 21, I will also be a part of a group art exhibit featuring a Chilkat robe I am recently completing, my latest button robes, a contemporary painting, along with a few Giclee prints and my button blanket series greeting cards.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in Whitehorse, Yukon, come out and visit us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most of the performers at the Adaka Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory June 21-27, I will play a 20-minute set.\u00a0 I will sing Tlingit songs and my own originals accompanied by my ukelele on Saturday, June 22 at 1:45pm.\u00a0 Check out the line-up of performers and artists on their website.\u00a0 The Adaka Festival features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,20,29,4,50],"tags":[224,62,214,225],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts-and-plays","category-travels-adventures","category-latest-art-projects","category-northwest-coast-art-shows-and-art-exhibits","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-adaka-festival","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-kwaan-lin-dun-cultural-center","tag-ukelele"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}