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Playlist: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Description: The Ukulele Orchestra is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, who use instruments bought with loose change, and who believe that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele. A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, singing, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the "bonsai guitar" and a menagerie of voices; no drums, no pianos, no backing tracks, and no banjos. A collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies. See the universe in the grain of a Ukulele. You may never think about music in the same way once you've been exposed to the Ukes' depraved musicology. The Orchestra use the limitations of the instrument to create a musical freedom with Ukuleles, (little ones, big ones, high ones, low ones) revealing unsuspected insights into popular music. From Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Reading, the Orchestra takes you on a world tour with only hand luggage and gives the listener "One Plucking Thing After Another". The Ukulele Orchestra started as a bit of fun in 1985. The first gig, intended as a one-off, was a sell out, and after one more gig the Orchestra had been on national radio. Since then there have been hundreds of appearances on radio and TV worldwide including BBC's 'Electric Proms' as special guests of the Kaiser Chiefs, 'Jools Holland Hootenanny', 'Blue Peter', Radio 4's 'Loose Ends', Radio 3's 'In Tune', C-Beebies 'Space Pirates' and 'The Slammer', NeverMind the Buzzcock's Christmas special, Virgin.fm, Resonance.fm, 'Today', 'Richard and Judy', XFM, and ITV's 'This Morning Show', 3Sat.TV - Germany's premier cultural station. There have been sold out concerts in America, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Ireland and Japan, in venues as diverse as Ronnie Scott's world famous London jazz club, The Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury Festival, Chicago Chamber Music Festival, The Big Chill, Cropredy, and the Edinburgh Festival. The Orchestra has rhythm, bass, baritone, tenor, soprano and lead Ukulele players, creating a rich palate of orchestration possibilities and registers. Sitting shoulder to shoulder in a semi-circle, they dress in formal evening wear like a symphony orchestra, reworking classics of rock 'n' roll, punk, jazz and classical music. In highlighting both the beauty and vacuity of the material, the Orchestra revel in the triviality and the self-reverence of popular and highbrow music, while being both serious and light-hearted. Sometimes a foolish song can move an audience more than high art. Audiences like to have a good time with the Ukulele Orchestra, which shows that musical intelligence and levity are not incompatible with acoustic versions of heavy metal, performance art techniques and the homage of a live karaoke. This raggle taggle group of disparate performers from widely different backgrounds is an incongruous assemblage of misfits. Could it be that this entertainment tribe, this anthropological phenomenon, has sidestepped the 20th century problems of art and walked into a new form, like Delphic Oracles on Stars in Their Eyes? The performers in The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are: Dave Suich, Peter Brooke-Turner, Hester Goodman, George Hinchliffe, Richie Williams, Kitty Lux, Will Grove-White, Jonty Bankes. Dave has been a compere at Glastonbury for the last 10 years and is in a side project rap band. Peter, veteran of TV comedy has been a Eurovision Song finalist. Hester has done solo shows, TV, theatre and dance and seen her ideas "borrowed" by entrepreneurs. George has written TV and film music and played 100 songs from 100 years in 100 minutes. Kitty received a major songwriting award and the Queens Award for Industry. Will has made acclaimed TV programmes and can pull monkey faces. Jonty has been part of the rhythm section for many legendary rock and blues artists and is the current official Ukulele Orchestra whistling champion of the world. Richie can spot a wagtail from fifty metres and enjoys a spot of light cleaning.
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Description: The Ukulele Orchestra is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, who use instruments bought with loose change, and who believe that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele. A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, singing, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the "bonsai guitar" and a menagerie of voices; no drums, no pianos, no backing tracks, and no banjos. A collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies. See the universe in the grain of a Ukulele. You may never think about music in the same way once you've been exposed to the Ukes' depraved musicology. The Orchestra use the limitations of the instrument to create a musical freedom with Ukuleles, (little ones, big ones, high ones, low ones) revealing unsuspected insights into popular music. From Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Reading, the Orchestra takes you on a world tour with only hand luggage and gives the listener "One Plucking Thing After Another". The Ukulele Orchestra started as a bit of fun in 1985. The first gig, intended as a one-off, was a sell out, and after one more gig the Orchestra had been on national radio. Since then there have been hundreds of appearances on radio and TV worldwide including BBC's 'Electric Proms' as special guests of the Kaiser Chiefs, 'Jools Holland Hootenanny', 'Blue Peter', Radio 4's 'Loose Ends', Radio 3's 'In Tune', C-Beebies 'Space Pirates' and 'The Slammer', NeverMind the Buzzcock's Christmas special, Virgin.fm, Resonance.fm, 'Today', 'Richard and Judy', XFM, and ITV's 'This Morning Show', 3Sat.TV - Germany's premier cultural station. There have been sold out concerts in America, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Ireland and Japan, in venues as diverse as Ronnie Scott's world famous London jazz club, The Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury Festival, Chicago Chamber Music Festival, The Big Chill, Cropredy, and the Edinburgh Festival. The Orchestra has rhythm, bass, baritone, tenor, soprano and lead Ukulele players, creating a rich palate of orchestration possibilities and registers. Sitting shoulder to shoulder in a semi-circle, they dress in formal evening wear like a symphony orchestra, reworking classics of rock 'n' roll, punk, jazz and classical music. In highlighting both the beauty and vacuity of the material, the Orchestra revel in the triviality and the self-reverence of popular and highbrow music, while being both serious and light-hearted. Sometimes a foolish song can move an audience more than high art. Audiences like to have a good time with the Ukulele Orchestra, which shows that musical intelligence and levity are not incompatible with acoustic versions of heavy metal, performance art techniques and the homage of a live karaoke. This raggle taggle group of disparate performers from widely different backgrounds is an incongruous assemblage of misfits. Could it be that this entertainment tribe, this anthropological phenomenon, has sidestepped the 20th century problems of art and walked into a new form, like Delphic Oracles on Stars in Their Eyes? The performers in The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are: Dave Suich, Peter Brooke-Turner, Hester Goodman, George Hinchliffe, Richie Williams, Kitty Lux, Will Grove-White, Jonty Bankes. Dave has been a compere at Glastonbury for the last 10 years and is in a side project rap band. Peter, veteran of TV comedy has been a Eurovision Song finalist. Hester has done solo shows, TV, theatre and dance and seen her ideas "borrowed" by entrepreneurs. George has written TV and film music and played 100 songs from 100 years in 100 minutes. Kitty received a major songwriting award and the Queens Award for Industry. Will has made acclaimed TV programmes and can pull monkey faces. Jonty has been part of the rhythm section for many legendary rock and blues artists and is the current official Ukulele Orchestra whistling champion of the world. Richie can spot a wagtail from fifty metres and enjoys a spot of light cleaning.
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