Jeff Japers has a gig this Saturday at the Cardiff Arts Institute supporting Rogora Kart.

Hosted by Andy Roberts
The sound of the steppes comes to the CAI. A glorious upbeat evening of Balkan beats, gypsy grooves and klezmer cuts. Featuring Newport’s Georgian gypsy punkers Rogora Khart, Russian ukulele tunes by Jeff Japers, klezmer dancing from the delightful Siluria plus some surprise
special guests. Followed by

DJ Moneyshot (Solid Steel)

Doors 8pm

I’d be very grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to vote for me in the Bosko and Honey Video Contest. Click Here

Cheers
Jeff

Bosko & Honey, the fab ukulele duo, are running a ukulele video competition. The prize is to join them on their Australian Ukulele Safari. This is my entry. Let me know what you think. Cheers Jeff.

A couple of weekends ago the Ukulele Knights had a gig at a Micro Beer Festival in Cardiff. It was great fun, we had a about 12 of us playing. Its ideal having a big band as you get an instant audience of friends and family members to go with it!

As usual, I had a great time at the Greenbelt Festival on Cheltenham Racecourse. Here are some videos of my performances there:

I had the opportunity to play on GTFM last month thanks to Richard Reast from Pontypridd Folk Club. I played Mr Balloon Man and Taking Milk.

I had the pleasure of returning to Cafe Jazz at the end of April thanks to Andy Roberts Balkan Night. It gave me chance to try out my dancing Bunny, he hadn’t performed live before and coped very well. You can see him in the video below and the rest of the performance on my youtube page.

At short notice I got to do a few numbers at Shot in The Dark in Cardiff on Saturday. Its a cool cafe where they are displaying the art work of a friend, Mo from Pontypridd folk club. He invited a few of us from the club to come and play and it gave me a chance to try out my new Hallelujah cover.

I had a gig last week in Cafe Jazz organised by Andy Roberts . The evening had an eastern European feel to it. It was a great evening and the main act were fantastic. They were called Rogora Khart and are well worth seeing. You can see my contribution below. My favourite bit was getting to improvise the Tetris music with fellow performers Cat Razzell on Accordian and Hungarian violinist Emese Hruska . There are some pictures of the night here.

Having attempted to start a Ukulele club last year and failed, I was pleased when Sarah Thomas from Penarth wanted to start one up. The club’s been going for nearly three months now and is going great. We’re working our way through some great songs, including our club song ‘Delilah’.

We’ve also taken a trip to TUSC and had a feature written about us in the South Wales Echo. Not bad for such a young club!

Have a look at the club blog here.