Mel Bay presents Ukulele for Kids

Product Description Little hands need little instruments. And what could be more fun than a little ukulele? (Some of you probably started playing music with a ukulele.) It's small, inexpensive, and easy to play. Start your kids on a fun-packed musical adventure with a kids' ukulele video and a ukulele. 14 easy-to-play songs that kids will love. Also great for kids at heart! Are You Sleeping, Where is Thumpkin, Skip to My Lou, and many more! (2 hours) About the Actor Murphy Henry, co-founder (with her husband Red) of The Murphy Method, teaches banjo, guitar, mandolin, and ukulele. She's been teaching almost as long as she has been playing. Murphy grew up singing in church and taking piano lessons. She learned how to play guitar during the folk boom, and quickly taught her sisters to play, so that she'd have someone to play with. In college (University of Georgia) she played at coffeehouses with just her guitar until, on the recommendation of Florida folksinger Gamble Rogers, she went to her first bluegrass festival and decided that she wanted to play bluegrass. She learned how to play bass so that she could take a job with Betty Fisher and the Dixie Bluegrass Band. But she quickly realized that the bass player doesn't get nearly the attention that the banjo player does, so she settled on the banjo as the instrument for her. She met future-husband Red at a bluegrass festival and not long after she graduated from UGA (with a degree in food science--of all things!) they married and started their own band--Red and Murphy and Co. Based in Gainesville, Fla., from the mid-seventies until 1986, Red and Murphy played on the southeastern festival circuit, as well as at a lot of Florida bars and clubs. They produced seven albums and two children: Casey, in 1978, and Christopher, in 1981. Murphy taught banjo in Gainesville and when they traveled fans often lamented that they were not close enough to Murphy to take lessons in person. She had the idea of putting her lessons on cassette, so that folks far away could learn the same way her live students did. What started out as a modest six-cassette Beginners Banjo Series slowly grew to a forty-plus video, six insturment instructional method. Now based in Winchester, Va., Red and Murphy run The Murphy Method, with Red handling the technical side (editing and duplicating videos, laying out the newsletter, shipping orders, and a multitude of other tasks) while Murphy handles the creative side (developing and teaching t