Our regular sessions are on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month – usually at 7.30 pm. – 9.30 p.m. at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth. Venue sometimes changes so please check here for details. You can also find HUG players at the Bay Horse Inn, Oxenhope for an informal session on most Tuesday afternoons between 2.00 and 4.00 p.m.. Just turn up!
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 2017
July 2017
August 2017
Regular HUG sessions
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
Regular HUG sessions
December 2017
February 2018
PAST EVENTS
May 2017
Thursday 11th May – 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. regular HUG session at Cobbles and Clay
Sunday 13th May – Mockingbirds (Cath and Pam) are playing at the Bay Horse Oxenhope between 4.00 and 8.00 pm and the last hour will be a jam session so you’re welcome to bring instruments and voices and join in. Hope to to see some of you there.
Thursday 18th May – 7.00 p.m. Music in the Museum Night – HUG playing at the Carriage Museum at Ingrow Station. It’s suggested we use the set list from Cliffe Castle Final Cliffe Castle Set List2017
Thursday 25th May – 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. regular HUG session at Cobbles and Clay
Music at the Museum – Ingrow (info to follow)
April 2017
Thursday 13th April – 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. regular HUG session at Cobbles and Clay
Thursday 27th April – 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. regular HUG session at Cobbles and Clay
March 2017
Thursday 9th March – HUG’s 5th Birthday Party!!! There will be cake!
Thursday 23rd March – regular HUG session – Cobbles and Clay 7.30 p.m
February 2017
Thursday 9th February – Valentine’s Special HUG session – Cobbles and Clay 7.30 p.m. As this is out nearest session to Valentine’s Day we’ll be singing some lurve songs.
Thursday 23rd February – regular HUG session – Cobbles and Clay 7.30 p.m.
January 2017
HUG Vasilopita 2017! Celebrate Greek New Year! Come along to the Lemon Tree Cafe and Bistro, Oakworth Road, Keighley on Thursday 5th January and celebrate New Year Greek style with HUG. There’ll be snacks and Vasalopita Cake – if you find the coin hidden in the cake you have health and happiness for 2017 and some traditions say you’re in charge of fun and mischief for the night! It’s a good way to round off the festive season. Good company, good food, cake and ukuleles!
Thursday 12th January – regular HUG session – Cobbles and Clay 7.30 p.m.Thursday 26th January – HUG Hootenanny! – Cobbles and Clay 7.30 p.m. – Celebrate Burns Night at HUG’s Hootenanny – wear your tartan, get ready for some Scottish songs and have a ball.
Sunday 29th January – HUG at Cliffe Castle, Keighley 2.00-4.00 p.m.
December 2016
Extra HUG Session: Thursday 1st December, 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth. We’ll be practising for the Oakworth Holden Park event on 12th December.
Song list for Holden Park Christmas Event!!
We’ve had dome special requests for songs at the Holden Park event on 12th December so the song list (not necessarily in this order) will be:
When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Come and Join the Celebration
Jingle Bell Rock
Blue Christmas
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
Here we Come a-Wassailing
Rootin Tootin Santa Claus
Away in a Manger
Winter Wonderland
Silent Night
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day
Frosty the Snowman
PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO REGULAR HUG SESSION ON DECEMBER 8TH AS WE ARE PERFORMING IN OXENHOPE THAT NIGHT.
Thursday 8th December – HUG Christmas Concert and Singalong at Oxenhope Methodist Church – 7.00 p.m. Afterwards we’ll be going to the Bay Horse in Oxenhope.
Monday 12th December – 6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. – Holden Park, Oakworth. HUG have been invited to play at the Friends of Holden Park Christmas event in Oakworth.
Song list for Holden Park Christmas Event!!
We’ve had dome special requests for songs at the Holden Park event on 12th December so the song list (not necessarily in this order) will be:
When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Come and Join the Celebration
Jingle Bell Rock
Blue Christmas
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
Here we Come a-Wassailing
Rootin Tootin Santa Claus
Away in a Manger
Winter Wonderland
Silent Night
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day
Frosty the Snowman
There is a new song there and one from last year’s songbook. Copies will be available tomorrow night.
Afterwards we can play anything we like at the Bay Horse in Oxenhope where there will be warm fires, hot wine and food. jingle all the way ….
Thursday 15th December 7.30 – 10.30 p.m. – HUG Christmas Party at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth
2017
November 2016
Extra HUG Session: Thursday 3rd November, 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth
Thursday 10th November – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.00 -9.00 p.m. !!NOTE DIFFERENT START TIME!!
Extra HUG Session: Thursday 17th November, 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth
Thursday 24th November – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Sunday 27th November – 1.10 p.m. – HUG at Skipton UKEFEST – Three Links Club, Skipton. ere’s the running order for Sunday 27th November at the Three Links Club in Skipton. As you’ll have seen there are activities on all weekend. HUG are on at 13.10 so please make sure you are there before 1.00 p.m. so that we can be ready to go.
12:30 Otley Ukulele Orchestra
13:10 Haworth Ukulele Group
13:50 Preston Ukulele Strummer Society
14:30 Bolton Ukulele Group
15.05 Keighley Ukulele Group
There is parking in the main public car park in Skipton (behind the Town Hall) for which there is a charge. The post code is BD23 6XG and the club is at the exit of the Town Hall Car Park.
Should anyone want fish & chips from the local shop collect a UKEFEST brochure from won the day and that will give you20% off.
Set list:
1. Eight Days a Week
2. If Paradise is Half as Nice
3. Fisherman’s Blues
4. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
5. Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
6. Folsom Prison Blues
7. Bring Me Sunshine – Morecambe and Wise
8. Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
9. Twist and Shout/La Bamba
Monday 28th November – HUG at Sneaky Peeks Reception at City Hall Bradford – 6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. Please meet at the side entrance to City Hall, Bradford by 6.00 p.m. so we can be ready.
Set list:
1. Eight Days a Week
2. If Paradise is Half as Nice
3. Fisherman’s Blues
4. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
5. Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
6. Folsom Prison Blues
7. Bring Me Sunshine – Morecambe and Wise
8. Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
9. Twist and Shout/La Bamba
October 2016
Thursday 13th October – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Bingley Canals 200 Celebration – Sunday 16th October -12.30 p.m. at Bingley Five Rise Locks.
Ukulele Workshop with Chris McShane – Friday 21st October 13.00 – 16.00 – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – this workshop will cover a wide range of skills and techniques to help improve all aspects of playing and knowledge. We will also play lots of arrangements as a group. The workshop fee is £7 and this includes an evening concert at Cobbles and Clay with Chris’s fantastic band Crazy Heart. Please note: the workshop will be upstairs in the cafe. The evening concert will be on the ground floor.
Thursday 27th October – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Friday 28th October – Manorlands Halloween Ceilidh at Pennington’s Octagon, Keighley http://www.theoctagonlive.com/ 7.30 p.m.
Message for HUG players coming to the Manorlands Halloween Ceilidh on Friday 28th October at Pennington’s Octagon with the fabulous Phoenix Ceilidh Band. The ceilidh fun starts at 7.30 p.m. and we are playing a 20 minute set at around 8.45. Please try to be there no later than 8.15. We’ll have our pie and peas supper after we’ve played. Halloween dressing up is encouraged but not essential.
September 2016
Thursday 8th September – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Sunday 18th September – Memory Walk, Band stand, Lister Park. Time to be confirmed.
Thursday 22nd September – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
August 2016
Oakworth Faery Fest 2016 – Saturday 6th August – between 12.00 and 5.00 – time to be confirmed. Here is the set list:
1. You Are My Sunshine
2. Eight Days a Week
3. Karma Chameleon
4. Only You
5. The Letter
6. Folsom Prison Blues
7. If Paradise is Half as Nice
8. A Groovy Kind of Love
9. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
10. Twist and Shout/La Bamba mix
Thursday 11th August – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Saturday 20th August – HUG and Lunchalele at Brighouse Canal Festival – 11.30 a.m.
Thursday 25th August – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
July 2016
Manorlands Garden Party – Sunday July 10th – 2.00 – 3.30 p.m. – HUG are invited to play a 30 minute set at 3.30 p.m. Please be there in time for set up at 2.15 p.m.
Thursday 14th July – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Thursday 28th July – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
June 2016
Thursday 9th June – HUG Regular session 7.30 -9.30 p.m. – NOTE VENUE: THE OLD WHITE LION, HAWORTH (TOP OF MAIN STREET)
Saturday 11th June – Haworth Park Bandstand – Queen’s 90th Birthday celebrations – Meet 1.30 p.m.
Bay Horse Beer and Music Festival – Sunday 12th June – 1.00 p.m. Bay Horse, Oxenhope
Thursday 23rd June – HUG Midsummer Mayhem session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -10.00 p.m.. Last chance to practice before HUGE 2016!
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June – HAWORTH UKULELE GROUP EXTRAVAGANZA!! For more details click here
Sunday 26th June – All aboard the 4th HUGE Ukulele Steam Train Special – open to all ukulele players and friends for a round trip on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway on the 11.06 from Haworth Station. Real ale bar, train songs, good company. See you there! Toot toot!
May 2016
Thursday 12th May – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Music in the Museum – Friday 13th May 7.30 p.m. at the Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow, Keighley. HUG are invited to play a couple of sets during the open museums evening.
Thursday 26th May – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
April 2016
Thursday 14th April – April Foolery at our regular HUG session Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth – 7.30-9.30 p.m.
Thursday 28th April – HUG Regular Session – all welcome to join us for some ukulele magic at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth – 7.30-9.30 p.m.
March 2016
Thursday 10th March – HUG’s 4th Birthday Party!!! – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth 7.30-9.30 p.m. All welcome to along and celebrate with us – just bring a uke and a sense of fun.
Thursday 24th March – ‘Start of Summer’ HUG session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth 7.30-9.30 p.m. The clocks spring forward this weekend and British Summer Time officially begins. Let’s celebrate! All welcome.
February 2016
Thursday 11th February – A Valentine HUG of lurve songs at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth 7.30-9.30 p.m.. All welcome.
Thursday 25th February – HUG regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth 7.30-9.30 p.m.
January 2016
Vasilopita! Celebrating Twelfth Night Greek style – Thursday 7th January at the Lemon Tree Cafe and Bistro 7.30 p.m.
Thursday 14th January – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Thursday 28th January – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Sunday 31st January – 2.00-4.00 p.m. HUG at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley – we’ll be entertaining folks as they browse the museum and if anyone fancies having a go at playing uke we’ll have some spares with us.
December 2015
Tuesday 8th December – 7.30 p.m. St John’s Church, Newsholme – HUG are playing a Christmas concert in support of Yorkshire Rows – fundraising for Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Tickets are £5
Thursday 10th December – Festive Fun!!! – HUG Christmas Party 7.30 – 10.30 p.m. at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth £3.00 including mulled wine and festive nibbles plus fabulous free raffle. Get your Christmas jumper on and come along. All welcome for a good Christmas sing along – uke players and non-players.
Tuesday 29th December – 2.30 – 4.30 p.m. HUG members will be getting together at the Bay Horse Inn, Oxenhope for an afternoon of ukulele fun. Just come along and join in – it’s informal and it’s got good beer!
November 2015
Sunday 8th November – members of HUG will be on board the Ukulele Express on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Check out World of Ukes for info.
Thursday 12th November HUG regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth 7.30-9.30 p.m.
Thursday 19th November – an extra HUG! Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. All welcome – but be warned we are practising Christmas songs!!
Thursday 26th November – HUG regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.
October 2015
Thursday 8th October – HUG Regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30 -9.30 p.m.
Thursday 22nd October – HUG regular session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth – 7.30-9.30 p.m. (sorry venue changed to Old Sun Hotel, West Lane, Haworth)
September 2015
Thursday 10th September – Regular HUG Session- 7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. – Old Sun Hotel, West Lane, Haworth NOTE VENUE!!!!
Thursday 24th September – Regular HUG Session- 7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main St, Haworth
Sunday 27th September – Leeds Ukulele Festival at Left Bank -4.30 – 9.00 p.m.
August 2015
Saturday 8th August – Oakworth Faery Fest
Wednesday 12th August – Yorkshire Air Ambulance Fund Raising Concert – Newsholme Village 7.30 p.m. More details to follow.
Saturday 15th August – Cottingley Fairy Fest followed by HUG the Cook BBQ and Strum
Sunday 16th August – HUG playing at Haworth Bandstand (between 1.00 and 5.00 p.m.)
Thursday 27th August – 7.30 p.m. – Regular HUG session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth
July 2015
Thursday 9th July – Regular HUG Session at Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Haworth
Thursday 23rd July – 7.30 p.m. Regular HUG Session – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth
June 2015
Thursday 11th June – 7.30 p.m. Regular HUG Session – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth
Sunday 14th June – 3.00.p.m. – HUG playing at the Bay Horse Inn Beer and Music Festival, Oxenhope
Thursday 25th June – 7.30 p.m. Regular HUG Session – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June – HAWORTH UKULELE GROUP EXTRAVAGANZA!!
May 2015
Tuesday 12th May – Afternoon Ukulele Strum – Bay Horse Inn, Oxenhope 2.00 – 4.00 p.m. This is an open session for uke players in the area – a relaxed strum and chat. Bring HUGE songbooks if you have them but we can always share.
Thursday 14th May -7.30 p.m. Regular HUG Session – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth
Friday 15th May – 7.00 p.m. – Vintage Carriage Trust – Museum Night at the Carriage Musem, Ingrow. HUG are playing a 45 minute set and then it’s any songs from the songbooks up to 9.00 p.m.
Tuesday 19th May – 8.00 p.m. – Singaround/music session at The Lemon Tree Cafe – all welcome, all instruments, all voices.
Thursday 21st May – extra HUG – final rehearsal for Kettlewell Mayfest – 7.30 p.m. at The Lemon Tree Cafe and Bistro, Keighley
Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th May – GNUF!
Saturday 23rd May – Kettlewell Mayfest. HUG are on stage at 12.30 – 1.15 p.m. Loads going on. A grand day out for all. http://www.kettlewellmayfest.co.uk/
Monday 25th May – Hope and Social Workshop and Gig at Otley Courthouse https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/EIMMDD https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/EIMLKJ
Thursday 28th May – 7.30 p.m. Regular HUG Session – Cobbles and Clay Cafe, Main Street, Haworth