This website is an extension of the Free Range Ukulele Society of Oak Park Meetup Meetup.com/Free-Range-Ukulele-Society-of-Oak-Park website.
Welcome
Fru the Chicken
The Free Range Ukulele Society of Oak Park (FRUSOP) Meetup† brings together people who love to play—or want to learn to play—the ukulele, to sing, and to have fun.
We love our Meetup.com site, however—although there are many good reasons why they should—we do not require meetup participants to be members of Meetup. Heck, if you like to sing and have fun, participants aren't even required to have ukuleles.
“Well, that sounds exciting,” we hear you say. “When and where does this happen?” We meetup every Thursday at 7:00 p.m., except holidays and when our venue is having a special event. Our hosting venue is the Eastgate Café (EastgateCafe.net) in the Oak Park Arts District102 Harrison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, who generously provides their dining room to us without charge. Our hosting venue is the Eagles Hall, 446 Hanna Avenue, Forest Park, Illinos. We sing songs found in that week's song-sheet packet. Food and beverages are available for purchase from our hosting venue. No one who organizes the meetup gets paid, however, we do request a suggested donation of $5.00 to help us with our costs, and a donation for the Fraternal Order of Eagles #1344 in consideration of allowing us to use their hall.
The meetups we had on the following dates were significant:
- Thursday, September 24th, 2015
- Thursday, September 14th, 2017
- Thursday, October 11, 2018
- Thursday, September 5, 2019
- Thursday, October 10, 2019
Occasionally organizer/webmaster Alvin McGovern adds a humouous post to the meetup pages. You can read many of them here.
Regarding Bears
We do not allow bears on this website. Call us backwards in our thinking, but we are convinced that this is the safest approach. If you disagree, we are open to hearing your opinion however misinformed it may be. That being said, emotional support teddy bears wearing muzzles are excluded from this policy.
Blatant Use of Cat Picture
Your cat will be lulled to sleep when you play your ukulele.
NOT!
Ukuleles are very therapeutic. That means your cat will feel safer when it has a flock of ukuleles nearby.
The only thing this picture has to do with ukuleles is that these cats were sleeping in the home of two ukulele players. Or is that two ukulele players live in the home these cats rule?
†Meetups are neighbors getting together to learn something, do something, share something…
