I’m delighted to report that my new book: Wings Are Handy Things is now ready to order in paperback from Amazon. If you’re looking for a gift for yourself or the uke playing musician and performer in your life then this could be the answer.
Here’s the spiel:
Wings Are Handy Things and other flights of fancy from the Ukulele Entertainer
Fresh insights and inspiration from a veteran musician
Ralph Shaw’s thoughtful and amusing approach equips you with what you really need to know to be a successful musical performer.
This third collection taking flight from his Ukulele Entertainer newsletter is chock full of ideas and advice, including:
- how to choose a good ukulele
- creating an onstage persona
- how to play with feeling
- reasons to teach ukulele
- writing a parody or pastiche
- staying focused in performance
- pros and cons of equipment like capos, guitar pedals and loopers
- the joy of whistling
- whether to go amplified or unamplified
Discover these tips plus incredible and inspirational tales from the mind of someone who finds music and performance in every aspect of daily life. With humour and invention, Ralph reveals the deep joy, opportunities for learning and occasional agonies that come with a musical life. Let his insights enrich your own playing and performing.
If you like the sound of any of that here is how you can get the book right now:
USA from Amazon.com for $12.92
Canada from Amazon.ca for $17.97 CDN
Australia from Amazon.com.au for $21.59 AUS
United Kingdom from Amazon.co.uk for £10.00
Japan from Amazon.co.jp for ¥2173
Germany from Amazon.de for €12.90
Other countries that have this book on Amazon are France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden. If you go to the Amazon website for that country and type in the book title it should come up for you.
If your country is not listed above you can either try to find a work-around using Amazon or get your book/s sent directly from my location (in the UK) to you. To do this please email me your address and the number of copies you want and I will find the cost of sending your order to you. I will then send you an email quote so you can decide if you want to go ahead with the order.
Kindle
Wings Are Handy Things is not yet available on Kindle but it will be soon. Keep reading these newsletters to find out when that will be.
To my superbly wonderful team of supporters who helped by donating towards the crowdfund for this book: Thank you so much!!! Truly, I hope you like and enjoy the final product.
I’ve had a bit of a quiet spell with the writing recently. It has been a time of turmoil and change in all sorts of ways but I’m coming through it all still grinning, still plonking my uke and with lots of catching up to do. I’m looking to spend a bit more time at the keyboard so that I may fill you in on things that are going on in my musical world. I truly look forward to it.
Keep Strumming and Smiling,
Ralph