S3E18 - Samantha Muir

Ukulele Is The New Black

Samantha Muir is a classically trained musician who had a passion for guitar from an early age. In 2012 she discovered the ukulele and fell in love with it. Since then she has arranged and composed a huge body of instrumental pieces for ukulele, with a focus on classical and folk music. She talks to me in today’s episode about her musical journey which also includes teaching music, publishing books and CDs, and playing the machete.

For more information about Sam, or to buy her books and CDs (hurry now to get them in time for Christmas!) go to samanthamuir.com, and also don’t forget to look up her YouTube channel, SamMuir Ukulele.

Some show-related links below:

• Kevin Chennell
• Royal College of Music
• The Ukulele, A History (John King & Jim Tranquada)
• Rob McKillop & the machete
• The Rajão
• Reentrant tuning
• Collection of pieces for machete (Cândido Drumond de Vasconcelos / Manuel Morais)
• The Baroque Ukulele (Tony Mizen)
• The Classical Ukulele (John King)
• John King
• Ferdinando Carulli
• Matteo Carcassi
• Fernando Sor
• University of Surrey
• Les Productions d’Oz
• Stephen Goss
• Sherborne School
• Jennie Durkee
• Milton Mermikides
• Tom Armstrong
• Grand Northern Ukulele Festival

Songs played on the show:

• Leaving on a Jet Plane (John Denver)
• Danse Paysanne (Ferdinando Carulli)

Go to the Ukulele Is The New Black YouTube channel for a playlist to hear these songs as well as other content relating to the episode

Ukulele is the New Black is produced by Meredith Harper, who also wrote the theme tune. The theme tune was performed by Meredith Harper, Jasmine Fellows, Geoff Skellams, Jim Croft, Chris Williams, Paul Marsh and Sandra Shaw. Seb Carraro does the graphic design.

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Thanks to my $10 and over Patreon supporters for helping me to make this podcast:

• Ukulele Legend: Linda Dodwell
• Ukulele Champions: Debbie Hoad, Maja Zweck & Christopher Boatwright

The music played in this episode is licenced under a Podcasts (Featured Music) agreement with APRA AMCOS.