{"id":3516,"date":"2024-10-10T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2024-10-10T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:12:30","slug":"muskegon-offers-ukulele-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2024\/10\/10\/muskegon-offers-ukulele-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Muskegon offers ukulele lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/blessing_of_ukes.jpg\" alt=\"People holding ukuleles.\" class=\"wp-image-3515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/blessing_of_ukes.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/blessing_of_ukes-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/blessing_of_ukes-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/blessing_of_ukes-560x382.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Muskegon Church of the Brethren ukulele group<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muskegon (Mich.) Church of the Brethren has been offering free ukulele lessons to the public over the past two years. The program is led by pastor Steve Hale and consists of four classes, finishing with a Sunday morning \u201cBlessing of the Ukuleles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lessons are geared for adult beginners. Styles taught include classic rock, country, and southern gospel. Graduates of the program receive a free instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the graduates return to practice and play in the praise band on Sundays. The ukulele band also plays a starring role in the<br>congregation\u2019s \u201cHee Haw Live\u201d evening on the first Friday of the month, May through September\u2014a singalong with free pop and popcorn provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest ukulele lessons began Sept. 17.<br><em>\u2014Carol Strayer and Tom Wagner<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many congregations offer a &#8220;Blessing of the ukuleles&#8221;? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[527,492,259,525,526],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michigan","tag-16-150","tag-michigan-district","tag-music","tag-muskegon-church-of-the-brethren","tag-ukulele"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}