All About Learning Ukulele with Curt
Curt's Performances
Here are a few Solo and Curt Sheller Trio performances to enjoy.
6 March 2025
The Curt Sheller Jazz Trio
The How About More Uke trio in action.
Sway
Summer's Dawn
I'll Remember April
My Favorite Things
A Few Solo Performance from the Archives
NEW From the Performance Archives — Posted a few songs from previous performances.
As typical of most artists and performers we are not always totally, un-conditionally happy with a performance. So, I'm presenting these with musical warts and all.
Performances and Workshop Presentations
Here is a list of previous ukulele performances, workshops presentations going back to 2003. Several of these festivals have been multiple times.
- Allegheny Ukulele Soirée, Altoona, Pennsylvania — 2026
- Berks Jazz Fest, The Other Farm, Boyertown, Pennsylvania
- Funky Frets Uke Fest, King of Prussia/Valley Forge, Pennsylvania — 2026
- Harvest Uke Fest, Saxon River, Vermont
- House Concert and Workshops - Herndon, Virginia
- M.A.U.I Uke Fest - Baltimore, Annapolis, Maryland
- Midwest Uke Fest - Chicago, Illinois
- Midwest Uke Fest - Indianapolis, Indiana
- New York Uke Fest, New York
- NJ Uke Fest, Morristown, New Jersey
- Nutmeg Uke Fest, Simsbury, Connecticut
- Pickfest, Boyertown, Pennsylvania
- Reno Ukulele Festival, Sparks, Nevada
- Southern California Ukulele Festival, Cerritos, California
- UkeFest VA, Glen Allen, Virginia
- Ukulele Harmonic Convergence, Lancaster, Pennsylvania — 2026
- VA Ukapollozza, Mechanicsville, Virginia — 2026
I have also attended many of these festivals as a vendor with Curt Sheller Publications or Funky Frets as well as performing and presenting workshops.
The Commuter - Solo Ukulele
Original composition by Curt Sheller (me). Performed at the 2009 New York Uke Fest at The Gershwin Hotel
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958 on Decca.
Despite her mature-sounding voice, Lee recorded this song when she was only thirteen years old. The song's declaration of a rock and roll sound notwithstanding, its instrumentation also fits the country music genre, which Brenda Lee more fully embraced as her career evolved. The recording features Grady Martin's ringing guitar and Boots Randolph's swinging solo sax break. The song is written in the key of A-flat major.
My performance here is in the key of C, an easy ukulele key.