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Chantelle & Uke

1 week ago

We had such a wonderful time at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele Festival this weekend. We ran a fun workshop on jazz ukulele and then performed a gorgeous set to a beautiful audience. We loved catching up with friends and seeing so many people enjoying the ukulele! A special thanks to their amazing festival coordinator, Diane, for such a beautiful event! ... See MoreSee Less

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Chantelle & Uke

3 weeks ago

It’s just two weeks now until the Phillip Island & Bass Coast ukulele festival!We’ll be performing and running a jazz workshop on the Saturday.The band will consist of myself on vocals & uke, Rick on bass and Brad on alto sax and clarinet. See you on the island! ... See MoreSee Less

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Chantelle & Uke

2 months ago

It was so great to be back at the wonderful Newkfest 2024 this year! We performed with the always fun Mark Jackson on trumpet. I also ran a workshop on learning the notes on the fretboard. It’s always lovely to catch up with so many uke friends from up north. A fantastic weekend! ... See MoreSee Less

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Chantelle & Uke

2 months ago

We can’t wait to hit the road for the newkulele_festival this weekend! ... See MoreSee Less

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Chantelle & Uke

2 months ago

They say music is good for the soul, and today was such a beautiful example of that. We headed out to the Spruik the Uke event in Tyers, a small town in regional Victoria. The ukulele community there is absolutely wonderful and we had such a beautiful day. The day featured several workshops and finished with a lovely concert.Chantelle delivered a session on performance tips while Rick ran his first ever ukulele festival workshop, getting people started on bass ukulele. We then ran the main festival workshop on an introduction to jazz ukulele, which featured the full band as we worked through performances of some well known jazz standards, which were all customised by the workshop participants. We also played a half hour set in the final concert, playing a mix of jazz standards and originals, which we finished with the recent original “Stray Cat”. We love this new song so much, so it’s great to be getting it out there a bit more. Oh yeah, and we also started selling our t-shirts and tote bags today!A great day of wonderful music and people ❤️ ... See MoreSee Less

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Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

3 days 16 hours ago

Ahhh December weather 😔 It’s been really hot and stormy here lately, so it was tough to find that this wonderful outdoor event has been

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 week 13 hours ago

We were at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele Festival yesterday when Andrew from the Awkward Strangers approached us very excitedly to let us

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 week 1 day ago

We had such a wonderful time at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele Festival this weekend. We ran a fun workshop on jazz ukulele

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

3 weeks 2 days ago

It’s just two weeks now until the Phillip Island & Bass Coast ukulele festival! We’ll be performing and running a jazz workshop on the Saturday.

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 month 2 weeks ago

It was so great to be back at the wonderful Newkfest 2024 this year! We performed with the always fun Mark Jackson on trumpet. I

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 month 3 weeks ago

We can’t wait to hit the road for the amazing newkulele_festival this weekend!

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 month 3 weeks ago

They say music is good for the soul, and today was such a beautiful example of that. We headed out to the Spruik the Uke

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 month 4 weeks ago

It’s today! Bring on Spruik the Uke!

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 month 4 weeks ago

We’ve had such a great response already to our post this morning. People have been reaching out asking the same questions, so here we go…

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

1 month 4 weeks ago

People keep asking us for merch… so we thought it was time we got onto that.

Now stocking t-shirts and tote bags 👍

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Chantelle & the Cat Cartel

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Oooh maybe we’ll get to meet Santa! Let the sea

Oooh maybe we’ll get to meet Santa!

Let the season begin! 🎄 🎅🏻

This event is the Lynbrook Christmas Festival and Market. It’ll be held at Banjo Paterson Park in Lynbrook this Saturday from 4pm onwards.

They’ve got rides, stalls, food trucks and a great stage program.

See you there!

We were at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele

We were at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele Festival yesterday when Andrew from the Awkward Strangers approached us very excitedly to let us know he’s found all the spoons!

Still no update on the fork situation though…

🤣

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We had such a wonderful time at the Phillip Island

We had such a wonderful time at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele Festival this weekend. We ran a fun workshop on jazz ukulele and then performed a gorgeous set to a beautiful audience. We loved catching up with friends and seeing so many people enjoying the ukulele! A special thanks to their amazing festival coordinator, Diane, for such a beautiful event!

It’s just two weeks now until the Phillip Island

It’s just two weeks now until the Phillip Island & Bass Coast ukulele festival!

We’ll be performing and running a jazz workshop on the Saturday.

The band will consist of Chantelle on vocals & uke, Rick on bass and Brad on alto sax and clarinet.

See you on the island!

It was so great to be back at the wonderful Newkfe

It was so great to be back at the wonderful Newkfest 2024 this year! We performed with the always fun Mark Jackson on trumpet. I also ran a workshop on learning the notes on the fretboard. It’s always lovely to catch up with so many uke friends from up north. A fantastic weekend!

We can’t wait to hit the road for the amazing ne

We can’t wait to hit the road for the amazing newkulele_festival this weekend!

They say music is good for the soul, and today was

They say music is good for the soul, and today was such a beautiful example of that.

We headed out to the Spruik the Uke event in Tyers, a small town in regional Victoria.

The ukulele community there is absolutely wonderful and we had such a beautiful day.

The day featured several workshops and finished with a lovely concert.

Chantelle delivered a session on performance tips while Rick ran his first ever ukulele festival workshop, getting people started on bass ukulele.

We then ran the main festival workshop on an introduction to jazz ukulele, which featured the full band as we worked through performances of some well known jazz standards, which were all customised by the workshop participants.

We also played a half hour set in the final concert, playing a mix of jazz standards and originals, which we finished with the recent original “Stray Cat”. We love this new song so much, so it’s great to be getting it out there a bit more.

Oh yeah, and we also started selling our t-shirts and tote bags today!

A great day of wonderful music and people ❤️

It’s today! Bring on Spruik the Uke!

It’s today! Bring on Spruik the Uke!

We’ve had such a great response already to our p

We’ve had such a great response already to our post this morning. People have been reaching out asking the same questions, so here we go…

The totes come in 6 colours (shown below).

The t-shirts are only available in black for now while we get started (we could only order so many up front for now). We can get additional colours for the t-shirts down the track, so if you want a particular colour and size, reach out and we’ll get one made in that combo for you.

Price wise they’ll be $25 for the t-shirts and $10 for the tote bags.

If you aren’t local and aren’t able to get to one of our gigs, let us know and we can get them shipped to you (for an extra charge).

We’re loving these as much as you guys are. In fact, we think they are totes awesome 😉🤣

People keep asking us for merch… so we thought i

People keep asking us for merch… so we thought it was time we got onto that.

Now stocking t-shirts and tote bags 👍

I think this festival has one of the coolest names

I think this festival has one of the coolest names - Spruik the Uke! This will be our first time at this event and we can’t wait. We have performed for this community before and they are so incredibly lovely. We’ll be running three workshops across the day - one on performance tips, another on jazz, and Rick is even running a workshop on bass! We’ll also be performing in their concert later the in the afternoon, accompanied by Brad on alto sax/clarinet. We are really looking forward to this one!

We’re heading north! We’ll be performing at t

We’re heading north!

We’ll be performing at the wonderful newkulele_festival in October. This event only runs every second year, so it’s always an extra special one to get to. It is also a lovely opportunity to catch up with so many uke friends from interstate.

I’ll also be running a fun workshop on ‘Performing with Flair’ - one of my favourite topics to teach! This workshop is almost part comedy skit as I hilariously teach by showing what NOT to do, and also cover what can be done to avoid common mistakes - all of which I learned the hard way!

I’ll be driving up to Newcastle with Rick (bass), and we’ll also be performing at the festival with jokester and fantastic jazz soloist Mark Jackson on trumpet.

We can’t wait!

Things have been busy here at the Cat Cartel!

We’ve got some amazing events coming up, including a local community event and three fantastic ukulele festivals!

All events will include Chantelle on vocals and uke, with Rick on bass. Additional band members are listed below for each event.

First up will be the Doveton Show, a local community event. We’ll be playing later in the afternoon. Band will include Alistair on trumpet and Cam on drums.

In October we will be heading out to visit our wonderful friends at the Spruik the Uke festival. We will also be running workshops at this event. Band will include Brad on alto sax and clarinet.

A week later we’re off on a 1,000km (670 miles) journey north to the fabulous Newkulele Festival to perform and run a workshop. This event only runs every second year, so it’s always an extra special one to have in the calendar. We have so many ukulele friends interstate and we always look forward to catching up with them. We’ll be accompanied by the hilarious Mark Jackson on trumpet for this one.

Then at the end of November we’ll be at the Phillip Island and Bass Coast Ukulele Festival. We’ve heard so many wonderful things about this community so we are super excited to get down to this event to perform and run a workshop. We’ll be accompanied by Brad on alto sax and clarinet for this one.

And just when you think this all sounds like a lot going on, we are also busy adding a bunch of new songs into the repertoire at the moment, including the fun new original ‘Stray Cat’ that we can’t seem to get out of our heads!

We’ll see you out there at a gig sometime soon!

Must have said something funny… That is a wrap

Must have said something funny…

That is a wrap on the always wonderful Inverloch Jazz Festival!

We had our second set today, which again featured a few new charts, as well as the debut of the new original song “Stray Cat”. People absolutely loved this new song - the groove, the lyrics, the backstory. That was a special one to finally be playing for an audience.

Special thanks to our incredible band, as always. We had Brad on alto sax and clarinet, Alistair on trumpet, Rick on bass and Cam on drums. I was of course on vocals and uke.

This year marked the 30th anniversary of the festival, so we were particularly grateful to have been selected to be part of the line up. Bring on next year!

It’s been a fantastic first day for us at the in

It’s been a fantastic first day for us at the invyjazzfest. We played a beautiful first set today, which included several new charts for us and some old favourites we haven’t played in quite a while. It was so lovely seeing our band members cheered on by their lovely families that came out to support us. We’re back here again tomorrow for another set, which will include a debut of a recent original song that has never been performed! 🐈‍⬛

This weekend will be a lot of fun as we head down

This weekend will be a lot of fun as we head down to the Inverloch Jazz Festival. This year marks the 30th year of the festival so we are thrilled to be part of their line up. Check us out at the Bowls Club venue on Saturday and Sunday. The band consists of myself on uke and vocals, Rick on bass, Brad on alto sax/clarinet, Alistair on trumpet and Cam on drums.

And then there were five! We’re excited to welco

And then there were five! We’re excited to welcome Cam on drums to the Cat Cartel line up. We’ve got two big gigs coming up in the next few weeks with this amazing five piece combo - we’ll be the main act at the Cranbourne FUN night this Saturday evening, and then we’ll be performing two sets at the Inverloch Jazz Festival from 3-4 August. We can’t wait!

We’re back at the Cranbourne FUN night this mont

We’re back at the Cranbourne FUN night this month as the main act. We’ll have a five piece band this time - Rick on bass, Brad on alto sax/clarinet, Alistair on trumpet, Cam on drums and myself on uke and vocals. We’d love to see our local friends there for this one!

Miss. Harriet absolutely loves music and especiall

He’s all wired up now! Special thanks to @evolut

He’s all wired up now! Special thanks to @evolutionmusiclynbrook for ordering in a pick up for Rick’s double bass. This means he’ll now finally be able to rehearse on double bass with the band and hopefully bring this beautiful instrument to a gig sometime soon!

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We had such a wonderful time at the Phillip Island

We had such a wonderful time at the Phillip Island & Bass Coast Ukulele Festival this weekend. We ran a fun workshop on jazz ukulele and then performed a gorgeous set to a beautiful audience. We loved catching up with friends and seeing so many people enjoying the ukulele! A special thanks to their amazing festival coordinator, Diane, for such a beautiful event!

It’s just two weeks now until the Phillip Island

It’s just two weeks now until the Phillip Island & Bass Coast ukulele festival!

We’ll be performing and running a jazz workshop on the Saturday.

The band will consist of myself on vocals & uke, Rick on bass and Brad on alto sax and clarinet.

See you on the island!

It was so great to be back at the wonderful Newkfe

It was so great to be back at the wonderful Newkfest 2024 this year! We performed with the always fun Mark Jackson on trumpet. I also ran a workshop on learning the notes on the fretboard. It’s always lovely to catch up with so many uke friends from up north. A fantastic weekend!

We can’t wait to hit the road for the newkulele_

We can’t wait to hit the road for the newkulele_festival this weekend!

They say music is good for the soul, and today was

They say music is good for the soul, and today was such a beautiful example of that.

We headed out to the Spruik the Uke event in Tyers, a small town in regional Victoria.

The ukulele community there is absolutely wonderful and we had such a beautiful day.

The day featured several workshops and finished with a lovely concert.

Chantelle delivered a session on performance tips while Rick ran his first ever ukulele festival workshop, getting people started on bass ukulele.

We then ran the main festival workshop on an introduction to jazz ukulele, which featured the full band as we worked through performances of some well known jazz standards, which were all customised by the workshop participants.

We also played a half hour set in the final concert, playing a mix of jazz standards and originals, which we finished with the recent original “Stray Cat”. We love this new song so much, so it’s great to be getting it out there a bit more.

Oh yeah, and we also started selling our t-shirts and tote bags today!

A great day of wonderful music and people ❤️

It’s today! Bring on Spruik the Uke!

It’s today! Bring on Spruik the Uke!

People have been asking us to get some merch sorte

People have been asking us to get some merch sorted for Chantelle & the Cat Cartel for a while now… so here we go!

These gorgeous totes come in 6 colours (shown below).

The t-shirts are only available in black for now while we get started (we could only order so many up front for now). We can easily get additional colours for the t-shirts down the track, so if you want a particular colour and size, reach out and we’ll get one made in that combo for you.

Price wise they’ll be $25 for the t-shirts and $10 for the tote bags.

If you aren’t local and aren’t able to get to one of our gigs, let us know and we can get them shipped to you (for an extra charge).

We hope you like them! We think they are totes awesome 😉🤣

I think this festival has one of the coolest names

I think this festival has one of the coolest names - Spruik the Uke! This will be our first time at this event and we can’t wait. We have performed for this community before and they are so incredibly lovely. We’ll be running three workshops across the day - one on performance tips, another on jazz, and Rick is even running a workshop on bass! We’ll also be performing in their concert later the in the afternoon, accompanied by Brad on alto sax/clarinet. We are really looking forward to this one!

We’re heading north! We’ll be performing at t

We’re heading north!

We’ll be performing at the wonderful newkulele_festival in October. This event only runs every second year, so it’s always an extra special one to get to. It is also a lovely opportunity to catch up with so many uke friends from interstate.

I’ll also be running a fun workshop on ‘Performing with Flair’ - one of my favourite topics to teach! This workshop is almost part comedy skit as I hilariously teach by showing what NOT to do, and also cover what can be done to avoid common mistakes - all of which I learned the hard way!

I’ll be driving up to Newcastle with Rick (bass), and we’ll also be performing at the festival with jokester and fantastic jazz soloist Mark Jackson on trumpet.

We can’t wait!

There’s a lot going on at the moment! There’

There’s a lot going on at the moment!

There’s a local community event and three fantastic ukulele festivals, all which I am performing and running workshops at.

In addition to these events, I also have the band trivia night concert coming up on September 7th. I’ll be playing percussion for that one.

Fun times ahead!

This weekend will be a lot of fun as we head down

This weekend will be a lot of fun as we head down to the Inverloch Jazz Festival. This year marks the 30th year of the festival so we are thrilled to be part of their line up. Check us out at the Bowls Club venue on Saturday and Sunday. The band consists of myself on uke and vocals, Rick on bass, Brad on alto sax/clarinet, Alistair on trumpet and Cam on drums.

And then there were five! We’re excited to welco

And then there were five! We’re excited to welcome Cam on drums to the Cat Cartel line up. We’ve got two big gigs coming up in the next few weeks with this amazing five piece combo - we’ll be the main act at the Cranbourne FUN night this Saturday evening, and then we’ll be performing two sets at the Inverloch Jazz Festival from 3-4 August. We can’t wait!

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