{"id":102899,"date":"2019-04-22T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=102899"},"modified":"2019-04-22T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:55:28","slug":"a-special-evening-of-ukulele-events-at-the-canastota-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=102899","title":{"rendered":"A special evening of ukulele events at the Canastota Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0193.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"102900\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=102900\" class=\"wp-image-102900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0193.jpg 640w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0193-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0193-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0193-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0198.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"102901\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=102901\" class=\"wp-image-102901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0198.jpg 640w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0198-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0198-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0198-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, April 18, 2019, the Canastota Library Ukulele\nExtraordinary Strummers Club, under the direction of Deb Guarneiri, held a\nprogram to celebrate the Ukulele Support System\u2019s newest development; the\nProject Fibonacci Foundation presented an award to Nathan Angell and Eric\nSurprenant, along with Guarneiri, the creator of the Ukulele Support System for\nupper limb disabilities. The project development prize is $3,200 for their\nprototype of an automated ukulele tuner, which addresses the needs of players\nwith upper limb disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project, which has been ongoing for more than 18 months,\nunveiled the working prototype developed by these two high school juniors from\nthe Vernon-Verona-Sherrill School District. The money will be used to assemble\nthe next phase of test units to be used with the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the awards ceremony, Hawaiian Master Ukulele\nPlayer Kimo Hussey gave a concert featuring his signature jazz style and an\ninstructional chat for the audience. Kimo\u2019s connection to our area is through\nthe Ukulele Guild of Hawaii. As president of this world-wide organization, he\nchampions the UGH\u2019s commitment to builders of ukuleles and the concept of\nKanikapila (playing together) and the virtue of inclusion. This is the focus of\nthe Ukulele Support System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canastota Library is home to CLUES Club. Deb Guarneiri\noffers weekly instruction of ukulele playing and Hawaiian song-singing. For\nmore information on these classes, contact the Library at 315.697.7030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canastota library is located on Center Street in Canastota.\nThe Fibonacci Foundation local chapter is located in Rome. The Ukulele Guild of\nHawaii is on the Island of Oahu. These three magnificent organizations are\nnon-profit groups, whose purpose is to better lives and support those whose\npassion is helping others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 18, 2019, the Canastota Library Ukulele Extraordinary Strummers Club, under the direction of Deb Guarneiri, held a program to celebrate the Ukulele Support System\u2019s newest development; the Project Fibonacci Foundation presented an award to Nathan Angell and Eric Surprenant, along with Guarneiri, the creator of the Ukulele Support System for upper limb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}