S4E14 - Meredith Harper

Ukulele Is The New Black

I promised you a special guest for the last episode – surprise, it’s me!! I figured my story was long overdue so I asked my friend and fellow ukulele podcaster Cameron Murray to interview me. It was a bit weird to be on the other side of the microphone but I really enjoyed it. I play a couple of songs, including a new original. I wasn’t entirely happy with either performance and I could have re-recorded them, but that felt like cheating so you’re stuck with what I played on the day, warts and all!

Some show-related links below:

• Sydney Conservatorium of Music
• The Canberra Times
• Sunday Assembly
• Martin backpacker guitar
• The Green Shed
• Mahalo ukulele
• Kala ukulele
• Michael Rosenberg
• Ukulele Republic of Canberra
• Central Coast Ukulele Festival
• Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival
• Ohana
• Rebecca Sugar
• Steven Universe
• KoAloha
• Jonathan Coulton
• Joco Cruise
• Enya Music
• The Bec Taylor School of Music
• Ukulele Festival Hawaii
• Kamaka Ukuleles

Podcasts I mentioned:

• Answer Me This
• Stuff You Should know
• The West Wing weekly
• Veronica Mars Investigations
• Buffering the Vampire Slayer
• The Chaser
• A Rational Fear
• The Amelia Project

Episodes I mentioned:

• Michael Rosenberg
• Mark Jackson & Jane Jelbart
• David “Snapper” Thiele
• Cameron Murray
• Alan & Paul Okami

Songs played on the show:

• If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot, 1970)
• One Heart is Enough (Meredith Harper)

Go to the Ukulele is the New Black YouTube channel for a playlist of songs relating to today’s episode.

Ukulele is the New Black is produced by me, Meredith Harper. I wrote the theme tune and I performed it with Janine Chandler, Jim Croft, Jasmine Fellows, Paul Marsh, Sandra Shaw and Chris Williams. Seb Carraro does the graphic design.

Thank you so much to Cameron Murray for being part of this final episode. If you haven’t heard Cameron’s podcast Ukulele Stories, now is the perfect time to subscribe so that you keep on getting your ukulele podcast fix!

Well listeners, this is the last interview I will be posting on this feed for now, but please stay subscribed as I will be releasing a 2021 compilation episode in early 2022. And who knows, I might get inspired and make the occasional new episode. Thank you so much for listening and supporting the podcast, with special thanks to my wonderful patrons. Stay safe and keep strumming!

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.