My favourite HUG videos were produced during (and after) Tasmania’s COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Not all members were ‘game’ enough to participate but those who were recorded two files each, one playing uke and one singing and shared their files to me via Dropbox. Initially, not having a clue how to put all the files together YouTube came to the rescue with iMovie and GarageBand tutorials. It was a huge learning curve but extremely enjoyable and satisfying. And even if the results are rather amateurish they are, perhaps, better than nothing during the ‘long’ months of lockdown…and cost nothing!! You can view from this page by clicking on the play icon in centre of each image or “Watch on YouTube”. And if you want to play along, a songbook with lyrics and chords is at the bottom of this page.

HUG’s lockdown video #1 – Act Naturally

HUG’s lockdown video #2 – San Francisco Bay Blues

HUG’s lockdown video #3 – Sweet Georgia Brown

HUG’s lockdown video #4 – Enjoy Yourself. Some of the ‘boys’ mixed up the ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ parts so I decided to learn something else by replacing them with cartoons…don’t think Disney will be knocking on my door any time soon!!

HUG’s post-lockdown video – Jackson

Play along with this songbook…