THE STRUM SHOP EVENTS
Concerts, Workshops, Music Jams, Clubs & More!
2024/09/21 Don Price - Concert and Workshop
Workshop - 4:00pm
Concert - 5:30pm
The all-acoustic ensemble Jazz Gitan (pronounced J'tawn) is high energy hot gypsy jazz. They perform a modern variant of 1930-1940s Django Reinhardt-inspired music.
Cost: $20 Concert | $35 Concert & Workshop
Jazz Gitan Concert & Workshop
Saturday, September 21stWorkshop - 4:00pm
Concert - 5:30pm
The all-acoustic ensemble Jazz Gitan (pronounced J'tawn) is high energy hot gypsy jazz. They perform a modern variant of 1930-1940s Django Reinhardt-inspired music.
Cost: $20 Concert | $35 Concert & Workshop
2024/09/21 Don Price - Concert Only
Workshop - 4:00pm
Concert - 5:30pm
The all-acoustic ensemble Jazz Gitan (pronounced J'tawn) is high energy hot gypsy jazz. They perform a modern variant of 1930-1940s Django Reinhardt-inspired music.
Cost: $20 Concert | $35 Concert & Workshop
Jazz Gitan Concert & Workshop
Saturday, September 21stWorkshop - 4:00pm
Concert - 5:30pm
The all-acoustic ensemble Jazz Gitan (pronounced J'tawn) is high energy hot gypsy jazz. They perform a modern variant of 1930-1940s Django Reinhardt-inspired music.
Cost: $20 Concert | $35 Concert & Workshop
2024/09/20 Adrian Legg
Adrian Legg has been heralded as a "guitarist of astonishing virtuosity, [whose] imagination and melodic invention seem unbounded" (Q magazine); "ridiculously talented" (Music Week), and "simply the best acoustic guitar player I've ever heard" (guitar icon Joe Satriani). Legg was named Acoustic Guitarist of the Decade by the UK's Guitarist Magazine (1984-94), and Best Acoustic Fingerstylist in Guitar Player Magazine's Readers' Poll for four years in a row (1993-96).
Cost: $ 30.00
Adrian Legg in Concert
Friday, September 20th 6:00pmAdrian Legg has been heralded as a "guitarist of astonishing virtuosity, [whose] imagination and melodic invention seem unbounded" (Q magazine); "ridiculously talented" (Music Week), and "simply the best acoustic guitar player I've ever heard" (guitar icon Joe Satriani). Legg was named Acoustic Guitarist of the Decade by the UK's Guitarist Magazine (1984-94), and Best Acoustic Fingerstylist in Guitar Player Magazine's Readers' Poll for four years in a row (1993-96).
Cost: $ 30.00
2024/09/21 Don Price
Workshop - 4:00pm
Concert - 5:30pm
The all-acoustic ensemble Jazz Gitan (pronounced J'tawn) is high energy hot gypsy jazz. They perform a modern variant of 1930-1940s Django Reinhardt-inspired music.
Cost: $20 Concert | $35 Concert & Workshop
Jazz Gitan Concert & Workshop
Saturday, September 21stWorkshop - 4:00pm
Concert - 5:30pm
The all-acoustic ensemble Jazz Gitan (pronounced J'tawn) is high energy hot gypsy jazz. They perform a modern variant of 1930-1940s Django Reinhardt-inspired music.
Cost: $20 Concert | $35 Concert & Workshop
2024/09/27-28 Placer Uke Fest
Join us for our 14th Annual Placer Ukulele Festival in Roseville, CA featuring ukulele virtuosos Heidi Swedberg & Daniel Ward. Open Mic & Concert Friday night. Workshops all day Saturday.
Cost: $95 | $65 | $25
Placer Uke Fest
Friday & Saturday, September 27th-28thJoin us for our 14th Annual Placer Ukulele Festival in Roseville, CA featuring ukulele virtuosos Heidi Swedberg & Daniel Ward. Open Mic & Concert Friday night. Workshops all day Saturday.
Cost: $95 | $65 | $25
2024/10/04 Vocal Workshop
Join our vocal instructor, Julie Chafin, for an engaging vocal workshop designed to enhance your singing skills. With her extensive experience in vocal techniques and performance, Julie will guide participants through exercises focused on breath control, pitch accuracy, and vocal expression. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced singer, this workshop offers personalized instruction in a supportive environment, helping you build confidence and improve your vocal abilities.
Cost: $ FREE
Free Vocal Workshop with Julie Chafin
Friday, October 4th 6:00pmJoin our vocal instructor, Julie Chafin, for an engaging vocal workshop designed to enhance your singing skills. With her extensive experience in vocal techniques and performance, Julie will guide participants through exercises focused on breath control, pitch accuracy, and vocal expression. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced singer, this workshop offers personalized instruction in a supportive environment, helping you build confidence and improve your vocal abilities.
Cost: $ FREE
All Acoustic Jam
4th Thursday at 6pm
If you play guitar, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica, washboard or whatever, and want to get together with other acoustic players, this is the jam for you. Bring your favorite folk, bluegrass, old-time or gospel song and come join in on the fun. Meets on the fourth Thursday each month at 6pm.
Cost: $ FREE
Carla's Blues & Jazz Ukulele Workshop
CANCELED FOR SEPTEMBER
4th Saturdays 1pm
Carla Fontanilla presents a workshop to help equip intermediate uke players with fundamental blues and jazz skills and techniques through chord progressions, scales, and styles to complement their existing skills. Players will explore in different songs how applying varying chord patterns, substitutions, scales, ?groove-driven? rhythmic expressions and strumming variations skills open wide the fun and enjoyment of blues, jazz and hybrid playing.
Cost: $ FREE
Community Open Mic
CANCELED FOR SEPTEMBER
4th Saturday 2:30pm
The Strum Shop's Open Mic invites musicians of all genres to showcase their talent in a vibrant and supportive community setting. Join us for an afternoon of diverse performances, where every note is celebrated and creativity knows no bounds.
Cost: $ FREE
Irish/Scottish Music Learning Session
3rd Thursdays at 6pm
We are a learning session for beginning to intermediate players of various traditional and non-traditional instruments to learn and develop our ability to play new and familiar Irish and Scottish traditional tunes, and learn the etiquette and various techniques needed to participate in a traditional Irish session. We are all learning together and welcome everyone, but intermediate/advanced players who have a great deal of experience with Irish sessions, or who are experts with their instruments should bring their patience and be willing to support new players...
Cost: $ FREE
Keoki's Kanikapila Hawaiian Jam
CANCELED FOR SEPTEMBER
Last Fridays 6pm
Aloha kakou/everyone! Come join Keoki & Ho'okane Ukulele for a relaxed evening of Mele O Hawai'i (Songs of Hawaii). Learn some beautiful songs that inspired the tourism trade in the islands (hapa haole music) and perhaps pick up on a few traditional Hawaiian songs as well. Guitarists, bassists, cajon players (and of course, ukulele players) as well as those who just like to sing and have the spirit of aloha in their hearts are welcome to join us for our kanikapila/jam session.
Cost: $ FREE
River City Dulcimers Club
3rd Saturday 1pm
Are you a brand new player? Whether you're learning for the first time or have been playing a while, come and join us! Ask all your beginner dulcimer playing questions here! This group is hosted by Dusty Thorburn, an educator and folk/roots music enthusiast. The beginning group lessons are at 1-2pm with a play-along after. Whether learning for the first time or you've been playing a while, come and join us! Donations are welcome but not required. Bring your dulcimer or let Dusty know ahead to bring one for you.
Cost: $ FREE
River City Ukulele Orchestra Rehearsal
2nd, 3rd, and 4th Saturdays at 10:30am
The River City Ukulele Orchestra is a community-based group of like-minded individuals from Roseville, Ca and surrounding areas who enjoy delving into the finer points of ukulele playing as a group! Our goal is to have fun, and to raise funds for the Ukes for Schools non-profit program. We do this by performing several times a year at fairs, festivals and senior residence events...
Cost: $ FREE
Roseville Youth Ukulele Orchestra
No meeting Labor Day, Sept 2nd
Mondays 5:00pm
We are thrilled to extend a warm invitation to join the Roseville Youth Ukulele Orchestra (RYUO). Gather with us Mondays to experience the pure joy of playing and singing in a supportive group setting. In this exciting journey, you'll not only enhance your musical skills but also practice the art of performing while sharing your love for music with our community through live showcases. Our program is open to students from 4th grade and up, who can play basic chord transitions smoothly. If you can sight-read notes, that's a fantastic bonus, but not required. Let's create beautiful music together as the Roseville Youth Ukulele Orchestra. Come play with us!
Cost: $ 80.00
Ukulele Beginning Group Class
No meeting Labor Day, Sept 2nd
Mondays 6pm
This class is intended for ages 12 to adult who have never played ukulele before. Students will learn about the different types and parts of the ukulele, how to tune it, and basic chords and strum patterns. Each week a new technique will be introduced. By the end of the month, students will have a few popular songs they will be able to play and the confidence to continue playing and learning.
Cost: $ 80.00
Ukulele Beyond the Basics Group Class
No meeting Labor Day, Sept 2nd
Mondays 7pm
This class is intended for ukulele players ages 12 to adult who are ready to expand their playing beyond basic chord strumming. Each month the class instructor will address and break down a different technique, style and/or song; such as jazz & blues ukulele, finger style playing, scales, soloing, and other intermediate level ukulele playing techniques.
Cost: $ 80.00