Over the past year or so I’ve noticed a big increase in listeners from Germany, so I thought it was time to feature a German ukulele player on the show.   Fortunately my friend Jim Croft seems to be able to find interesting ukulele players all over the world, and he suggested that I get in touch with Charlotte Pelgen, who turned out to not only be a brilliant ukulele player and singer, but also an absolute delight.  I ‘m sure you will all enjoy this episode!

Some show-related links below:

• What is a chanson?
• Tom Lehrer
• Charlotte & Elisabeth
• The Bad Mouse Orchestra
• Buy a Bad Mouse Orchestra album!
• KoAloha Ukuleles
• Martin Ukuleles
• Liam Kirby, Wunderkammer Musical Instrument Co
• The Little Prince
• Ohana Tiple 10-string ukulele
• ukulelezaza
• Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast

Songs played on the show:

• Anything Goes (Cole Porter)
• I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby (Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields)
• Stumblehop Blues (Remco Houtman-Janssen)

Go to the Ukulele Is The New Black YouTube channel for a playlist to hear these songs as well as other content relating to the episode, including The Masochism Tango!

Ukulele is the New Black is produced by Meredith Harper, who also wrote the theme tune. The theme tune was performed by Meredith Harper, Jasmine Fellows, Geoff Skellams, Jim Croft, Chris Williams, Paul Marsh and Sandra Shaw.  Seb Carraro does the graphic design.

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Thanks to my $10 and over Patreon supporters for helping me to make this podcast:

• Ukulele Champion: Debbie Hoad
• Ukulele Legend: Linda Dodwell

The music played in this episode is licenced under a Podcasts (Featured Music) agreement with APRA AMCOS.

The bagpipe music at the end of the episode was downloaded from https://freesound.org/people/rivermagic321/sounds/481061/ under a Creative Commons 0 licence.