Bradley Weaver's Family Fun Club

In this episode I do some of my favorite tunes from the Holiday Season!

Here is the setlist:

1. Walking in a Winter Wonderland (Smith, Bernard)
2. Jingle Bells (Pierpont)
3. As the Season Rolls Around (Weaver)
4. Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel (Grossman, Goldfarb)
5. Mele Kalikimaka (Anderson)

Click here for the studio version of my holiday original, 'As the Season Rolls Around.'

In this episode, I play tunes from the 'Team Weav' project.

Team Weav began as a recording project with my twin brother Brandon. In 2008, Brandon challenged himself to record 1 song every week, whether it was 'finished' or not! At the end of that year, Brandon asked me if I would pick some songs from the project for us to finish together. We co-wrote and recorded remotely (each from our home studios) an...

I decided to set aside the guitars, ukulele, autoharp, etc. and do an episode featuring just my voice. 

This is a group of traditional tunes that I love to perform, with my audience, using only our voices.


Here is the setlist-
1. Itsy Bitsy Spider (traditional)
2. Old MacDonald (trad.)
3. Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes (trad.)
4. I'm a Little Teapot (trad.)
5. B.I.N.G.O. (trad.)

This tribute episode features songs by the single biggest influence to my music and songwriting, Neil Young!

Here is the setlist:

1. Sugar Mountain (Young)
2. Comes a Time (Young)
3. Heart of Gold (Young)
4. Long May You Run (Young)

The lullaby is an instrumental version of Young's tune 'Needle and the Damage Done.'

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This episode feature 5 more classic children's songs that are super simple to play on the ukulele (or the guitar, or the piano)!

The setlist is as follows:

1.  The Itsy Bitsy Spider (trad.)
2. The Muffin Man (trad.)
3. Ten Little Dinosaurs (trad.)
4. A Tisket, A Tasket/It's Raining, It's Pouring (trad.)
5. The Mulberry Bush (trad.)

If you would like to play along at home, yo...

This tribute episode was the suggestion of listener Tari Crowder.

Thank you Tari, for the suggestion! It was such a pleasure digging into the catalogue and life of such an amazing singer-songwriter.

Here is the setlist:

1. Rainy Day People (Lightfoot)
2. Early Morning Rain (Lightfoot)
3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Lightfoot)

The lullaby is an instrumental version of 'If You ...

This episode features one of my favorite instruments, the Lap Steel Guitar!

If you are not familiar with this beautiful instrument, I made a short intro video here.
You can also view a whole bunch of my lap steel videos here!

Here is the setlist for the episode-
1. Farmers (Weaver)
2. Trains, Trains, Over Our Heads (Lien, Weaver, Weaver, Weaver)
3. Deuling Banjos (Smith, Reno)
4. Down By the Ba...

This episode is a tribute to legendary singer-songwriter John Prine!

Thank you to my friend and former bandmate Ryan Chrys for the suggestion. Ryan is the leader of a fantastic Outlaw Country band called 'Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts.'
Check them out if you get a chance. You will not be disappointed!

Here is the setlist:
1. Spanish Pipedream (Prine)
2. Paradise (Prine)
3. Angel From Mont...

This episode features songs from my 2016 album 'Let's Make Some Music!'

The setlist includes:

1. One Room at a Time (Weaver)
2. Recycle It (Weaver)
3. Crosswalks (Weaver)
4. Let's Make Some Music (Weaver)

If you'd like to see how I transitioned between instruments during the recording of 'Let's Make Some Music', check out the video here!

The lul...

This episode is a listener suggested tribute to one of the greatest songwriters in the history of songwriting, Tom Petty!


Here is the setlist:
1. 'Room at the Top' (Petty)
2. 'Wildflowers' (Petty)
3. 'Freefallin' (Petty, Lynne)
4. 'Running Down a Dream' (Petty, Lynne, Campbell)

For this episode's lullaby, I simply strummed the main riff of 'Fre...

This episode features tunes written and made famous by one of the greatest Children's Entertainers of all time, Raffi!

Raffi is such an inspiration both as a children's artist and an incredible human.

I have chosen 5 tunes for this tribute. 2 were written by Raffi and 3 are traditional tunes that Raffi introduced to me and countless others.

The setlist includes:

'Down By the Bay&ap...

I continue to celebrate the launch of my Ukulele Club with another All Ukulele episode!

If you'd like to play along at home, you can get a PDF of the chords and lyrics to every tune on this episode HERE.

Here is the setlist for this episode:
1. Happy and You Know It (traditional)
2. This Old Man (trad.)
3. Row Row Row Your Boat (trad.)
4. Are You Sleeping/Frere Jacques (trad.)
5. Skip to m...

To celebrate the launch of my Ukulele Club, this episode features the Ukulele on every tune! Learn more about the Ukulele Club here.


The setlist for this episode is-

1. The Washing Your Hands Song (Weaver)
2. It'll Be Okay (Weaver)
3. Sugar Mountain (Young)
4. Our Sun (Weaver)
5. More Fun With 2 (Weaver, Lori Burke)

The lullaby is 'Dreamland' (Weaver)

This episode is all about the Autoharp!

Every tune (including the lullaby) is performed on my Oscar Schmidt 15-Chord Autoharp.
I also speak of my history with the autoharp as well as the history of the instrument itself.

The setlist includes:
1. London Bridge (Trad.)
2. Together (We Can Do It) (Weaver)
3. Home on the Range (Trad.)
4. Wildflowers (T. Petty)

The lullaby is 'Hush Lit...

This episode contains 4 of my traditional favorites from way back when I was a child!


The setlist includes:

1. I've Been Working on the Railroad (trad.)
2. Donald Went a Courtin' (traditional, Kryczko, Armbruster, Mitchell, Morrell)
3. She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain (trad.)
4. ABC Song (trad.)

Studio recordings of 'I've Been Working on the Railroad...

This episode is all about the changing seasons, and features a song for each!

The setlist includes:

1. The Greenest Green (Weaver)
2. This is My Summertime (Weaver)
3. Autumn ( McKnight, Gist, Bailey)
4. As the Season Rolls Around (Weaver)

'The Greenest Green' is on my 'All the Colors You've Got Inside' EP.

'This is My Summertime' was originally on m...

This episode features songs about food.

These songs are extra special to me because they were all cowritten by my (then 3-year-old) son Hank! About a year and a half ago, Hank and I decided to write some silly songs about food. Every  tune on this episode was written during those jams! Until now, the songs only  lived as files on my phone, but I decided they deserved to be heard.  Some aren't  fully structured, but al...

This episode features songs about our animal and insect friends.

The setlist includes:

1.  Lots of Dinosaurs (Weaver)
2. B.I.N.G.O (traditional)
3. Flea (Brandon Weaver)
4. The Bee (Weaver)

This week's joke was performed by Hank Weaver.

The featured lullaby is 'Dolly' from my 'Lullabies for Max Vidal' EP.

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This episode features songs performed on the ukulele.

The setlist is as follows:

1. Happy and You Know It (traditional)
2. Wheels on the Bus (traditional)
3. All Around the Kitchen (traditional)
4. Here Comes the Sun (Harrison)

This episode's joke was a phone recording of my one-year-old daughter Max telling her favorite Knock Knock joke!

The closing song ( in lieu of a lullaby) ...