Flea Street Band

60 Year Anniversary of the British Invasion
2024-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Foster City Library, 1000 E Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City, CA, 94404, United States
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Zombies, the Kinks, the Dave Clark Five, and so many more groups and solo artists from Great Britain changed the course of popular music sixty years ago. The British Invasion brought us the songs that dominated the Billboard Top 40 Charts of the sixties. Those songs excited the pop music world with new sounds, inventive rhythms, fun chord changes, and great lyrics.
Please join us and take the “Ferry Cross to Mersey” and to Liverpool and relive these great songs from 1964-1966.

Golden Gate Ukulele Jam with Aloha Uke Squad, PUGs and SF Uke Rebellion
2024-03-17 12:00 - 14:30 | Stonestown Galleria, San Francisco, 3251 20th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94132
Come jam with the hottest ukulele groups on the San Francisco Peninsula! The Aloha Uke Squad, The Peninsula Ukulele Group and San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion are super excited to share happy strumming and singing with you at the Sports Basement in Stonestown Galleria.
This is a free event. Bring your ukulele, your music stand and a smile :)
All ukulele levels and abilities are welcome!
A packet of all ukulele chords charts will be available for download prior to the event.

PUGs 10 Year Anniversary Celebration!
2024-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Ten years ago, April 16, 2014, the Peninsula Ukulele Group was created and our first Meetup occurred at the Redwood Shores Library.
We will start our tenth year together at our new venue, the San Carlos Library. Please join the PUGs and the Flea Street Band as we celebrate our 10 year anniversary! Over the years we have built a strong community through playing music together and have had a lot of fun along the way. We’ve met new music loving people, made friends, learned a few tips and tricks about playing our ukuleles and created some joyful and fun music over the past 10 years. We have much to be grateful for.
So let’s celebrate, play some of our favorite, fun songs and ring in 2024 and celebrate our 10th year together!

Motown Magic!!
2024-04-24 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Join the Peninsula Ukulele Group for as we revisit the Motown Sound with our April Meetup, Motown Magic!! We’ll play many of the top 10 hits of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, the Temptations and MORE!! Glenn Lew and the Flea Street Band will lead us through this great group of songs at the San Carlos Public Library.

A Beatles Workshop
2024-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Please join the Flea Street Band as we provide A Beatles Workshop to teach the June Meetup songs for “All The Beatles”. You will learn how to take the playing of these songs to the next level by learning vocal harmonies and how to play the intro and riffs and become more confident playing the songs at the June Meetup. Linda/Astrid (singing), Patter (percussion) and Glenn(Blackbird/riffs) will be our instructors.
You will learn to sing in harmony to:
*Norwegian Wood
*If I Fell
You will learn how to play the intro and riffs to:
*Blackbird
*And other Beatles songs such as Act Naturally, Norwegian Wood, Let It Be, Something and Here Comes the Sun.
You will learn to play percussion using drums to these songs. Some loaner drums will be available to use, or bring your own.
We will have a mini jam session to play some of these songs at the end of the workshop. This workshop is sure to be informative and fun! We hope you can join us for this unique learning opportunity!
Links to the materials and songs that will be covered are included below. We encourage you to view the videos beforehand.
Spotify Playlist

All The Beatles
2024-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Beatles fans were very excited this year to hear this. It was announced that the very talented director, Sam Mendes, will direct a series of four movies, one for each Beatle, slated for release in 2027. He is excited and honored to tell the story of the greatest band of all time and we can’t wait to see these movies. The Beatles still hold a unique fascination, as we saw with the popularity of Peter Jackson’s 2021 “Get Back” documentary. The two surviving Beatles are partnering on these films as well as the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison. These movies will be highly anticipated.
We will do our version of this exciting event with a nostalgic and fun Meetup, which will feature the best and most iconic songs by each Beatle: John/Paul/George and Ringo.

Kiwanis Farmers Market
2024-06-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Kiwanis Farmers Market, 500 Arguello St, Redwood City, CA, 94063

Woodside Arts & Culture Performance
2024-07-05 19:00 - 19:45 | Woodside Town Hall, 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA, 94062

Picnic with Steve Kritzer
2024-07-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Leo J. Ryan Park in Foster City, 650 Shell Blvd, Foster City, CA, 94404
Please join us for a super fun summer picnic with your friends from PUGs and our ever popular and talented musical host, Steve Kritzer. We will have a potluck picnic at Leo Ryan Park Amphitheater, top of the hillside, where the picnic tables are. Steve will lead a fun ukulele jam session. Bring your ukes, the playlist, some water and a music stand and chair. There will be a few picnic tables available. This is our first social event combined with a jam session. Please bring some food to share. We will provide paper plates, napkins and utensils. Hope to see you there!

Luncheon at ACC
2024-08-02 12:15 - 13:15 | Adult Community Center San Carlos, 601 Chestnut Street, San Carlos, CA, 94070

Meetup PUG
2024-08-28 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070

Let's have a Luau at the Library!
2024-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Please join us for a festive and fun Meetup with a Hawaiian/Luau theme! We’ll play Hawaiian songs, watch some hula dancing and wear our festive, Hawaiian attire (optional). Flea St Band will have performed these songs at the San Carlos Adult Community Center Luau luncheon in August, and we’re bringing the luau to you! We hope you can join us for this fun event.

Spookulele! Halloween Jam
2024-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Please join us as we celebrate the Fall and Halloween holiday by playing festive, Halloween songs in October.

Teen Idols!! 50's to 60's
2024-11-19 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Welcome to the Teen Idols!! 50’s to 60’s Meetup
Back in the 50’s and 60’s rock and roll was in its infancy. And the stars back then were singing the songs for the then young Baby Boomers. So here songs by Teen Idols of the era – Elvis Presley, Bobby Vinton, Shelley Fabares, Paul Anka, Buddy Holly, Lesley Gore, Neil Sedaka, Ricky Nelson and more. Great songs with great melodies.

Santa's Holiday Jam with the Flea Street Band!
2024-12-18 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070

Uke University- a free, beginner ukulele lesson
2025-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
If you have always wanted to learn to play the ukulele and don’t know where to start, you’re in the right place!
Peninsula Ukulele Group is providing a FREE beginner ukulele lesson at the San Carlos Library, taught by members of the leaders of this popular local ukulele group. This course is designed for the beginning player. You will learn how to tune, hold, strum and play your first chords and will play your first song by the end of this 90 minute fun class. Multiple instructors will be available to provide support to the students.
This course is being provided as a part of San Carlos’s Week of the Family celebration. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to learn to play. A beginner packet will be provided. Please bring your ukulele and a tuner, or if you need one, check one out at a local San Mateo county library. All ages are welcome.

Belle Haven
2025-02-01 13:00 - 15:00 | Belle Haven, 100 Terminal Ave, Menlo Park, CA

Rehearse with the Flea St Band
2025-02-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-01 14:00 - 16:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
The Flea St Band, the house band for the Peninsula Ukulele Group, rehearses songs twice a month for upcoming Meetups and performances. You are invited to participate in this rehearsal. We are providing a new opportunity to play our songs with the Band in a casual, low stress environment before a Meetup occurs.
All levels are welcome. All instruments, including ukuleles, and singers are welcome. If you are a beginner, no worries. Play what you can and observe. No one is watching you and judging you. It’s a friendly and welcoming environment.
The songs range from beginner to intermediate level with some frequent chord changes, varying strums and optional fingerpicking and riffs. Being able to play basic and intermediate chords, reading tabulature and ukulele chord diagrams is helpful. Practicing the songs before and after rehearsal is helpful.
A link to the song sheet will be provided for each session and the songs are projected on a screen at the rehearsal. You may want to bring a tablet, laptop or printed playlist, if you can’t see the songs well on a screen from a distance.
Now if you would like to improve your playing or just play together more than once a month, you’re in luck. You’ve found the right place!

Will You Be My Valentine? Pop Love Songs
2025-02-12 17:45 - 18:15 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Need a song to sing for your Valentine this year? Well, this is the ukulele Meetup for you. We’ll be playing a number of pop love songs over the years from Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole to the Bangles and Ed Sheeran. We are having the Meetup early this month due to the availability of our meeting site at the library.

Cheers to 11 Years! PUGs 11th Anniversary!
2025-03-12 18:00 - 19:30 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Please join the PUGs and the Flea Street Band as we celebrate our 11th Anniversary together. 11 years of monthly jam sessions, we’ve hosted 205 sessions of playing music together and 3 years of Zoom Meetups! Wow, we’ve been busy and have much to be proud of. So let’s celebrate another year by playing some fun songs at the San Carlos Library together. We really enjoyed our tenth year anniversary and we’re back for more fun :) Don’t miss this awesome celebration! Wahoo! Cheers to 11 years!

Let's Play the Wheel of Songs!
2025-04-16 18:00 - 19:30 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Please join our hosts, Larry and Linda, along with the Flea St Band, as we sing songs selected by the “Wheel of Songs”. This spinning wheel will select the order of songs we play. It consists of the best 17 songs from my favorite of Glenn’s playlists- “Take It Easy, the Sounds of Country Rock”! The audience will be provided an opportunity to volunteer to spin the wheel and win a ukulele themed prize of their choice. Glenn will lead the band to play your chosen song. So fun! It’s a super fun game with nostalgic and memorable songs that will be our evening of music together. Join our zany group to have an evening of fun and games, songs and prizes! Don’t miss this.

We are the World
2025-05-28 17:45 - 19:30 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Forty years ago, singer and actor Harry Belafonte came up with the idea to form a super group of pop artists to record a song to raise funds for Famine Relief in Africa. From this came the song “We Are The World” (written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie) which sold over 20 million copies worldwide and raised $80 million dollars for famine relief around the world. It was the no. 1 song of the 80’s.

Woodside Arts & Culture
2025-06-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Woodside Town Hall, 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA, 94062

Beatles & Friends
2025-06-28 14:00 - 16:00 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070

The Boys of '63 - Songs of The Beach Boys and the Jersey Boys (The Four Seasons)
2025-07-23 17:45 - 19:15 | San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA, 94070
Just before the Beatles and the British Invasion, new recordings were eminating from both the West and East Coasts. Out of Hawthorne, California were The Beach Boys and out of Newark, New Jersey came Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. Each group had a number of hit records through the 60’s-80’s with their catchy tunes and rich harmonies. We just lost Brian Wilson last month, so rediscovering his music will be a great tribute to this great composer and musician.

ACC Luau
2025-08-01 12:30 - 13:30 | Adult Community Center San Carlos, 601 Chestnut Street, San Carlos, CA, 94070
