The YinYanBand is fun & friendly collective spreading joy & positivity through music & creativity! We started in 2018 by giving away some ukuleles & running 1 hour crash courses (we don’t call them lessons as they’re too much fun) – this created other bands that perform at gigs, festivals & events.
Our sessions are a powerful way of reducing stress while boosting your brain power, wellbeing, community & creativity. Within 60 minutes of picking up a ukulele total beginners are playing songs they love, leaving any stress or worries far behind!
Public YinYan Band sessions are 7-9pm in Liverpool (at Tempest) on the 3rd Tuesday of each month – more info here via the Eventbrite booking page, where you can learn more & book your place at a beginner crash course (or one of our other art or exercise sessions). You don’t need any musical experience, talent, ability or even a ukulele as we have ones you can borrow – and you don’t need to book unless you want to borrow a ukulele!
Songbooks we use (if you’re coming to a jam session it’s handy if you’ve got a tablet/iPad – but we’ve always got some printed beginner books you can borrow):
- The YinYan Band sing-a-long songbook (Dec 2023)
- YinYan Christmas songs (Dec 2023)
- the YinYan Band beginner songbook (info & song sheets – all you need to get started)
- The YinYan Band Songbook (more than just beginner stuff!)
- YinYan Band retreat song book (all bangers!)
- YinYan Band Christmas songbook (2019)
- The D’ukes of Hazzard Busking Book v3 (who helped inspire the YinYan Band) have an open jam every Thursday from 8pm in Ma Egertons in Liverpool – it’s mega!
- Ukulele Wednesday have two open jam sessions every week in London and a cracking song book!
- The legendary Jim’s song book…so many songs!!!
- Discover the many benefits of being in a band!
