{"id":10,"date":"2017-11-08T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2024-02-05T02:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:35:26","slug":"welcome-to-soup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to SOUP Ukulele Club, Enfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SOUP ukulele club<\/strong><\/span> was formed in 2007 in <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enfield Town, north London<\/span><\/strong>. We meet <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">from 20:00 to 22:00<\/span><\/strong> on alternate <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/span> evenings at :<\/p>\n<p>Bush Hill Park Bowls, Tennis &amp; Social Club<br \/>\nAbbey Road<br \/>\nBush Hill Park<br \/>\nEnfield<br \/>\nEN1 2QP<\/p>\n<p>The basis of the club is simple :<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Membership : <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing formal &#8211; just turn up with your uke and pay the modest \u00a32 subs towards the hire of the room.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Beginners &#8211; Please note : <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While you are welcome to come along (after all we all had to start somewhere), to get the best enjoyment from the sessions you need to be a fairly confident player &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">chord knowledge, basic strumming rhythms and probably most importantly the ability to manage a tune and its chord changes at a confident speed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean you need to know lots of songs but without these basic skills you may feel out of your depth and struggle. This is not a class.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What we do : <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We often have theme evenings, e.g. a Beatles evening or songs with &#8216;Blue&#8217; in the title etc. The idea is to just stretch our imagination when looking for new songs to try out together. Some songs work, some don&#8217;t! Each session always includes a few songs from our own repertoire to keep them fresh for any performances coming up. Sometimes members perform a solo they&#8217;ve been working on &#8211; don&#8217;t panic, this isn&#8217;t obligatory, but it&#8217;s amazing what it does to your confidence when you do have a go.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Our members : <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Have a wide range of ukulele knowledge and can give tips on which ukulele to buy, repairs, tuners, useful websites etc. We all approach the ukulele from a slightly different angle. We are happy to support newer players but don&#8217;t expect too much hand-holding during the sessions as we&#8217;re all there to play.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Performances :<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We also often get asked to appear at local events and play for between 30 minutes and 2 hrs. We do ask that you are a reasonably confident player before you join us in a performance as the stage can get rather crowded. You certainly don&#8217;t have to be perfect though &#8211; part of the fun is making mistakes and having a laugh about it while part of the enjoyment is performing as well as you can.<\/p>\n<p>There is no pressure to perform and it&#8217;s fine to attend SOUP meetings without joining any SOUP performances. However, it&#8217;s a lot of fun and we meet some lovely people out there.<\/p>\n<p>Click this link to see <a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" style=\"color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 2px solid #a1a1a1; padding: 10px 10px; background: #dddddd; border-radius: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/?page_id=46\">where S.O.U.P. are performing in the near future.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Contact SOUP<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For all <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SOUP enquiries<\/span><\/strong>, please drop an email to <a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449792372133_11815\" class=\"yiv7706216203moz-txt-link-abbreviated\" href=\"mailto:info@ukulelesoup.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\">info@ukulelesoup.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see and hear <a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" style=\"color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 2px solid #a1a1a1; padding: 10px 10px; background: #dddddd; border-radius: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/S.O.U.P.ukulelegroup\/\">S.O.U.P. in action on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Latest News<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Click this link to see some of our <a href=\"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/?page_id=61\">performance recordings<\/a>. (This really needs updating! &#8211; have a look for us on Youtube)<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Lessons<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you would like some lessons, please click this link for lessons with<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" style=\"color: #000000; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 2px solid #a1a1a1; padding: 10px 10px; background: #dddddd; border-radius: 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/uketutor.co.uk\/\">Uke Tutor, Malcolm Littler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUP ukulele club was formed in 2007 in Enfield Town, north London. We meet from 20:00 to 22:00 on alternate Tuesday evenings at : Bush Hill Park Bowls, Tennis &amp; Social Club Abbey Road Bush Hill Park Enfield EN1 2QP The basis of the club is simple : Membership : There&#8217;s nothing formal &#8211; just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukulelesoup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}