Some of our favorite times are at the Total Life Centers, providing adult day services. Here we are at Departure Drive.The early days of the Raleigh Night Market, playing in front of Big Ed’sIn 2018, Marbles Kids Museum asked us to play a set before they previewed a documentary film on the history of traditional music!Outdoors on Pelagic’s nifty sidewalk patioWe always get a great reception at Magnolia Glen!Entertaining the residents at Abbotswood at StonehengeIn the pandemic’s early days, we had to “jam” on Zoom. Not the best environment, but we kept in touch!Our final big jam before COVID struck, March 6, 2020Late October 2021. Still warm enough to play outdoors at Pelagic (barely)!As the virus calmed down, we could close ranks, but we still had to play outdoors. What a dedicated crew!
We couldn’t visit the Total Life Centers during the 2021 holidays, so we recorded a set for them and posted it on YouTube!WRAL-TV’s “Tarheel Traveler” caught us playing for the participants and staff at TLC Bond Park, September 2022!
To celebrate the Summer Solstice and the worldwide Make Music Day events, we played at Pelagic June 21, 2022!March 3, 2022: Our first mask-optional indoor jam in two years!The legendary Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer led us in a uke jam at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass 2022!We joined three other uke clubs as part of the North Carolina Ukulele Collective and played at the NC Whirligig Festival in Wilson, November 2022!Christmas 2022 at Bond Park TLCThe Bondettes perform at an open mic.For Make Music Raleigh 2023, we performed at the Oberlin Regional Library…… and at Riparian Provision Co.!Rollie, Pat, Susan, and Dennis show did some great collabs at an open mic.The room the church let us use our first six years. We outgrew it! Thanks to the Church of the Nativity for their generosity.
