{"id":627,"date":"2007-05-24T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2014-03-16T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T17:15:16","slug":"dept-of-shameless-self-promotion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/dept-of-shameless-self-promotion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Uke it Up at NW Folklife Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfolklife.org\/\">Folklife<\/a> Weekend in Seattle. If you find yourself craving that certain musical combination of nerdiness, mixed ethnicity, and crunch, Folklife is for you! Folklife is also a big event for the good people of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleukulele.org\/\">Seattle Ukulele Player&#8217;s Association<\/a> &#8211; a large contingent shows up to play and it&#8217;s a Good Time. We&#8217;re at the Intiman on Sunday at 11:30, part of the Ukulele Extravaganza. There might be better players on the planet, but I don&#8217;t think anyone else enjoys it quite as much as we do.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukulele Extravaganza goes from 11 am until 1pm &#8211; you could get your annual does of uke music out of the way all at once. The Kimball Kids open, followed by SUPA, then there&#8217;s a slack key band, and finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookadams.com\/\">Brook Adams<\/a> &#8211; who&#8217;s mighty entertaining, we saw him in Eugene, once. Word has it he can play all of the Beatles Abby Road on his uke. That&#8217;s a crazy rumor if ever there was one. Doncha wanna know if it&#8217;s true?<\/p>\n<p>Come on down. It makes me happy to see you in the audience when the house lights go up.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Seattle Ukulele Players Association, Folklife, ukulele[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is Folklife Weekend in Seattle. If you find yourself craving that certain musical combination of nerdiness, mixed ethnicity, and crunch, Folklife is for you! Folklife is also a big event for the good people of the Seattle Ukulele Player&#8217;s Association &#8211; a large contingent shows up to play and it&#8217;s a Good Time. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Uke it Up at NW Folklife Festival\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/dept-of-shameless-self-promotion-2\/#more-627\" aria-label=\"Read more about Uke it Up at NW Folklife Festival\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","category-ukulele","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}