Mr. Ukulele (guitarrita)

 

I know what you’re thinking.  How did this 30 dollar ukulele get from those little kids in Peru (top), to these in Mexico?  Ukulele’s don’t handle travelling very well, they get seasick, they don’t stow well in overhead compartments.  What about when a string breaks, is there really gonna be a ukulele string store atop Machu Picchu?  (Notice the color palettes...It's like the bloods and the crips with these pictures of each country).

Anyway, this bad boy is indestructible.  Rumor has it, the uke inspired the Bruce Willis movie “Unbreakable”.

Let me give you a sense of the uke’s schedule:

-Tues/Wed: During the day it goes to the CAM in Guanajuato (Centro de Atencion Multiple) and runs a music program for either the chiquitos (little ones), the grandes (big ones) or the entire school.  Granted, at times the "whole school" only entails 20 students or so. 

Select lessons:

-Teaching the Macarena

-Music appreciation (Beethoven to A Tribe Called Quest, Miles Davis to Jose Alfredo Jimenez (Mexicans know who he is).

-Making maracas out of frijoles and cups.

-Mon/Wed/Fri: The uke (with Arnulfo Velasquez, pictured here) runs an after school music program Resplandor in Cajones.  

This is Resplandor

 

Look here to see what goes down at Resplandor

 For real click that link.