Buy TheKipiChick a coffee

Hello there!  Welcome to my Buy Me a Coffee page!  Thank you so much for your support!  You can find me playing solo, and with my band AcoustiCats, hosting Open Mic Nights at Wayside in Montague, and Fetch in Whitehall, and every Sunday leading the charge at Strum It White Lake Ukulele Club at The Book Nook & Java Shop from 1-2 pm!

If you would like to request a song for me to play, below is the ever-growing list of songs I know how to play:

Artist / Title

Abba / Dancing Queen

Adam Sandler / I Wanna Grow Old With You

Alyssa Bonagura / I make My Own Sunshine

America / Ventura Highway

American Folk Song / Wayfaring Stranger

Amy MacDonald / This Is The Life

Amy Winehouse  /Our Day Will Come

Anna Kendrick / The Cup Song

Anna Nalick / Breathe (2 AM)

Bart Howard / Fly Me To The Moon

Ben Rector / Brand New

Benson Boone / Beautiful Things

Bette Midler / The Rose

Bobbie McFarrin / Don't Worry Be Happy

Bob Crew, Bob Gaudio / Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Bob Nelson / Hanalai Moon

Bruno Mars / Count On Me

Bruno Mars / Marry You

Buddy Holly / Everyday

Camila Cabello / Havana

Children's Song / The Ukulele Song

Chris Isaak / Wicked Game

Connie Francis / Stupid Cupid

Creedence Clearwater Revival / Lookin Out My Backdoor

Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young / Our House

David Bowie / Space Oddity

David Guetta feat. Sia / Titanium

Dire Straits / Sultans of Swing

Dirty Dancing - Brucker & Ortega / Hula Hana

Doby Gray / Uncle Kracker / Drift Away

Don Ho / Tiny Bubbles

Duc Huy "Willie Dann" / White Sandy Beach

Edith Piaf / La Vie En Rose

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros / Home

Elton John / Your Song

Elvis - Peretti, Creatore, Weiss / Can't Help Falling In Love

Elvis - Love Me Tender

Eric Clapton / Wonderful Tonight

Five for Fighting / Superman

Fleetwood Mac / Landslide

Fleetwood Mac / Dreams

Four Non-Blondes / What's Up

from Hamilton / You'll Be Back

from Phantom of the Opera / Think Of Me

from Portal / Still Alive

from The Greatest Showman / Million Dreams

from The Jerk / Tonight You Belong To Me

from The Wizard of Oz / Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Gary Portnoy - Cheers / Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Gershwin / Summertime

Green Day / Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Hoagy Carmichael / Heart and Soul

Imelda May / Big, Bad, Handsome Man

Ingrid Michaelson / Be Ok

Ingrid Michaelson / The Way I Am

Ingrid Michaelson / You and I

Jackie De Shannon / Put A Little Love In Your Heart

Jason Mraz / I'm Yours

Jazz Standard / All Of Me

Jazz Standard - Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes / That's All

Jazz Standard - Andre, Schwandt, Kahn / Dream a Little Dream of Me

Jewel / You Were Meant For Me

Jewel / Standing Still

Jimmy Buffett / Margaritaville

Jimmy Eat World / The Middle

Joan Baez / Diamonds and Rust

Joe Vs. The Volcano / The Cowboy Song

John Denver / Take Me Home Country Roads

John Fogerty / Proud Mary

John Lennon / Imagine

John Prine / Angel From Montgomery

John Prine / In Spite of Ourselves

John Prine / Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian

Johnny Nash / I Can See Clearly

Joni Mitchell / Both Sides Now

Journey / Lights

Kansas Joe McCoy / The Weed Smoker's Dream

Katrina & The Waves / Walking on Sunshine

Kelly Clarkson / Breakaway

Lauren Daigle / You Say

Leonard Cohen / Hallelujuah

Lori Lieberman / Killing Me Softly with His Song

Louis Armstrong / What a Wonderful World

Matisyahu / One Day

Melanie / Brand New Key

Mika / Grace Kelly

Nancy Sinatra / These Boot Are Made For Walkin'

Neil Young / Harvest Moon

Nora Jones / Don’t Know Why

Olivia Dean / It's So Easy

Pat Benatar / We Belong

Penny Rushing (Me, The Kipi Chick) / A Coffee & My Ukulele

Penny Rushing (Me, The Kipi Chick) / 6 Feet of Get-Back

Penny Rushing (Me, The Kipi Chick) / Gotta Give It A Try

Penny Rushing (Me, The Kipi Chick - Guitar) / Just A Little Longer

Phil Phillips / Sea of Love

Radiohead / Creep

Rihanna / Love On The Brain

Rowland Salley - AJ Lee / Killing The Blues

Roy Orbison, Joe Melson - Linda Ronstadt / Blue Bayou

Santana / Evil Ways

Sherman Kelly (King Harvest) / Dancing In The Moonlight

Simon and Garfunkel / Sound of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel / Song For The Asking

Solomon Linda / The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Stan Jones / Ghost Riders In The Sky

Steve Winwood / I Can't Find My Way Home

Taylor Swift / Carolina

Taylor Swift / Crazier

Tears For Fears / Mad World

The Beatles / Blackbird

The Beatles / Love Me Do

The Carpenters / Close To You

The Cranberries / Zombie

The Cure / Just Like Heaven

The Cure / Friday I'm in Love

The Everly Brothers / Bye Bye Love

Tiffany / I Think We're Alone Now

Tiny Tim / Tiptoe Thru The Tulips

Traditional / Oh Danny Boy

Train / Marry Me

Vance Joy / Riptide

Van Morrison / Brown Eyed Girl

Violent Femmes / Blister In The Sun

Warren Haynes / Soulshine

Wild Child / All The Years

Willie Nelson / Crazy

I continue to add more music, so check back to see what's new!

A little bit about me:  My name is Penny -- I've loved singing FOREVER.... can't take me anywhere without me bursting into song in the middle of whatever it is we are doing, lol.  My husband surprised me for my 40th birthday with a trip to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI to pick out whatever ukulele my heart desired.  I tried multiple times to try to learn how to play it, only to be absolutely crushed when I just couldn't understand it.  For seven years it basically sat in it's case collecting dust and it made me so sad that I couldn't figure it out.  In January 2019 I took an online ukulele course thru Udemy.com -- just sat down and flew thru the program in one day -- by the end of the course I was playing (and understanding) multiple chords and it actually sounded like music!!  It took me 2 months for my brain to figure out how to play and sing at the same time, and I did my first Open Mic night 4 months later -- I was rough, for sure, but I was also HOOKED!  I had FINALLY figured out how to play my beautiful Kala ukulele and it was so much more fun than I had imagined!  I think because I had struggled with it for so long, I just get so much joy out of playing it!

So why am I The Kipi Chick??  Kipi is our VW bus that we love to take on adventures!  We named her Kipi because she's the same color as the most beautiful place in the world Kitch-iti-kipi!  We travel in our Kipi bus, and I'm the chick that drives it, so... that makes me The Kipi Chick ;-)

I hope you enjoy listening to my music, as much as I enjoy playing it.  I'm throwing good vibes and positivity out into the world, and I hope you're finding it and sharing it with others, too! 

Always remember...In the words of the Great Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan: "Be excellent to each other!" ~Penny

P.S. Be sure to check out my YouTube channel (below) for some videos of me playing at different locations in the White Lake area, as well as The Kipi Chick Facebook page and Strum It White Lake Ukulele Club for more information!