Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a comedic musical group, ukuleles in different registers and an acoustic bass guitar (the band took to calling them as a bass ukulele ) play.

History

Originally established in 1985 for a one-time appearance, the orchestra played since world in different places, on different occasions, such as the Royal Festival Hall or on the Glastonbury Festival.

The Orchestra entered the world on television. An appearance in the TIPI at the chancellery of the Bar jeder Vernunft was recorded by ZDF in 2007 and broadcast on 3sat and the ZDFtheaterkanal. Members were commissioned to write the music for two episodes of The South Bank Show and take.

The orchestra played in television shows such as Tomorrow 's World, Blue Peter, The Slammer, Richard and Judy and This Morning and other shows on British television. The orchestra performed at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of VE Day in Hyde Park in front of about 170,000 spectators. The orchestra was in Japan, the United States, Canada and Europe on tour. The albums include Precious Little, The Secret of Life, Top Notch, and the recording of a concert from 2005 under the title Anarchy in the ukulele, it was recorded at the Barbican Centre in London.

Their cover version of Ms. Dynamite Dy -Na -Mi -Tee, sung by Hester Goodman, 2005 it reached number 81 in the UK singles chart. On the single are also a cover version of Aretha Franklin's ( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman, sung by George Hinchliffe and the ukulele version of the instrumental piece Wonderful Land.

In recent years, followed by numerous television appearances, including Jools Holland's Hootenanny in. For the live shows, the Ukulele Orchestra regularly received positive reviews.

The orchestra had several occupations in the 20 years of its existence, and is currently an octet of seven Ukulelespielern and a bassist. The members wear this evening dress at their performances, the men tuxedo, women elegant evening dresses. A typical appearance of the Ukulele Orchestra consists of songs and instrumental pieces from various styles of music: So is regularly played Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in the style of a swinging jazz number, Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and the theme song of the movie Shaft. The orchestra also composes and performs his own pieces, but also arranged medleys, such as the one in which David Bowie's Life on Mars? is mixed with My Way, For Once in My Life and substitutes. The group largely adopted distance of playing music of George Formby, Jr., Britain's most famous ukulele players. Only the song Leaning on a Lamppost part of their repertoire, but in a Russian style.

Discography

Studio albums

Concert albums

  • 2008: Live in London # 1, UOGB
  • 2009: Live in London # 2, UOGB

Scrapbooks

  • 2001: Top Notch, UOGB

Singles

  • 2005: Dy -na -mi- tee, Longman Records

DVD

  • 2005: Anarchy in the Ukulele, UOGB
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