BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20170329T000000Z DTEND:20170329T020000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain DESCRIPTION:"Eight ukuleles walk out on stage..."\n\n\n\nNo joke prepare for an unforgettable evening featuring the finest ukulele orchestra in the world!\n\nThe Orchestra was formed in 1985 as a bit of fun\, but the first gig was an instant sell-out\, and they've been performing ever since. By 1988 they had released an LP\, appeared on BBC TV\, played at WOMAD and recorded a BBC Radio 1 session. \n\n\n\nThe current ensemble has been playing together for over 20 years\, and has become something of a national institution. \n\n\n\nThe Orchestra has given thousands of sold-out concerts across the world\, including Great Britain\, Germany\, Sweden\, Finland\, Poland\, France\, America\, Canada\, New Zealand and Japan. \n\n\n\nThey have more recently performed sell-out shows at the Sydney Opera House (2012)\, The Royal Albert Hall (2009\, 2012) and New York's Carnegie Hall (2010\, 2012).\n\nOver the last 29 years\, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has spawned hundreds of imitators\, and you can now find Ukulele Groups in nearly every major city\, indeed\, the Orchestra are often blamed for the current Ukulele revival which is sweeping the globe. \n\n\n\nThe Ukulele Orchestra's music has been used in films\, plays\, and commercials\, while film clips of the Orchestra's live concerts and TV appearances on websites such as YouTube have been watched millions of times. Collaborators have included Madness\, David Arnold\, The British Film Institute\, The Ministry of Sound\, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) and The Kaiser Chiefs.\n\nThe Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all-singing\, all-strumming Ukulele players\, using instruments bought with loose change\, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation\, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.\n\n\n\nA concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny\, virtuosic\, twanging\, awesome\, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the "bonsai guitar" and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies. There are no drums\, pianos\, backing tracks or banjos\, no pitch shifters or electronic trickery. Only an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and singing (and a bit of whistling). Audiences have a good time with the Ukulele Orchestra. Going from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western soundtracks\, the Orchestra takes us on "a world tour with only hand luggage" and gives the listener "One Plucking Thing After Another". \n\n\n\nUsing instruments small and large\, in high and low registers\, whether playing intricate melodies\, simple tunes\, or complex chords\, and sitting in chamber group format dressed in formal evening wear\, the Orchestra uses the limitations of the instrument to create a musical freedom as it reveals unsuspected musical insights. Both the beauty and vacuity of popular and highbrow music are highlighted\, the pompous and the trivial\, the moving and the amusing. Sometimes a foolish song can touch an audience more than high art\; sometimes music which takes itself too seriously is revealed to be hilarious. You may never think about music in the same way once you've been exposed to the Ukes' depraved musicology. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"\;Eight ukuleles walk out on stage..."\;
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\nNo joke&mdash\;prepare for an unforgettable evening featuring the finest ukulele orchestra in the world!
\nThe Orchestra was formed in 1985 as a bit of fun\, but the first gig was an instant sell-out\, and they'\;ve been performing ever since. By 1988 they had released an LP\, appeared on BBC TV\, played at WOMAD and recorded a BBC Radio 1 session. \;
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\nThe current ensemble has been playing together for over 20 years\, and has become something of a national institution. \;
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\nThe Orchestra has given thousands of sold-out concerts across the world\,  \;including Great Britain\, Germany\, Sweden\, Finland\, Poland\, France\, America\, Canada\, New Zealand and Japan. \;
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\nThey have more recently performed sell-out shows at the Sydney Opera House (2012)\, The Royal Albert Hall (2009\, 2012) and New York'\;s Carnegie Hall (2010\, 2012).
\nOver the last 29 years\, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has spawned hundreds of imitators\, and you can now find Ukulele Groups in nearly every major city\, indeed\, the Orchestra are often blamed for the current Ukulele revival which is sweeping the globe. \;
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\nThe Ukulele Orchestra'\;s music has been used in films\, plays\, and commercials\, while film clips of the Orchestra&rsquo\;s live concerts and TV appearances on websites such as YouTube have been watched millions of times. Collaborators have included Madness\, David Arnold\, The British Film Institute\, The Ministry of Sound\, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) and The Kaiser Chiefs.
\nThe Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all-singing\, all-strumming Ukulele players\, using instruments bought with loose change\, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation\, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.
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\nA concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny\, virtuosic\, twanging\, awesome\, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the &ldquo\;bonsai guitar&rdquo\; and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies. There are no drums\, pianos\, backing tracks or banjos\, no pitch shifters or electronic trickery. Only an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and singing (and a bit of whistling). Audiences have a good time with the Ukulele Orchestra. Going from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western soundtracks\, the Orchestra takes us on &ldquo\;a world tour with only hand luggage&rdquo\; and gives the listener &ldquo\;One Plucking Thing After Another&rdquo\;. \;
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\nUsing instruments small and large\, in high and low registers\, whether playing intricate melodies\, simple tunes\, or complex chords\, and sitting in chamber group format dressed in formal evening wear\, the Orchestra uses the limitations of the instrument to create a musical freedom as it reveals unsuspected musical insights. Both the beauty and vacuity of popular and highbrow music are highlighted\, the pompous and the trivial\, the moving and the amusing. Sometimes a foolish song can touch an audience more than high art\; sometimes music which takes itself too seriously is revealed to be hilarious. You may never think about music in the same way once you&rsquo\;ve been exposed to the Ukes&rsquo\; depraved musicology. LOCATION:TBA UID:e.2717.575 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260524T094238Z URL:https://business.merrillchamber.org/events/details/ukelele-orchestra-of-great-britain-03-28-2017-575 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR