Post #140577 by Tiki_Bong on Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:05 PM

It is with heavy heart (& upper colon) I must announce the SM's beloved ukulele, den-mother - Shirley Orlando - has told us she needs to step aside from the band to attend to more pressing matters.

My first selfish thought was "you can't quit, I still have 800 band business cards left!". But those self-absorbed thoughts soon evaporated after I realized who I was talking to.

Shirley was the steady-rhythm, solid-rock, percussive side of the band on her 1934 Martin ukulele. She was the seasoned musician that saved the rest of us copius amounts of pain from going about some musical this or that the wrong way

Anyway, Shirley also hosts the Kolohe ukulele group (of which Bill Tapia frequents), and has found someone we're going to audition for the part.

If he works out we should be up and running in no time.

I used to think only drummers and bass players were hard to find (without felony convictions), but I'd have to add to that 'good' ukulele players...