Past Event
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
8th Mar 2012
Presenter: Lord Uke
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Event Duration: 120 minutes
at the State Theatre, The Arts Centre Melbourne
"Plucking brilliant." - SUNDAY TIMES
After 25 years of gigs in venues all over the world, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain comes to Arts Centre Melbourne for the very first time.
The group bring their ‘bonsai guitars’, and the belief that all musical genres are available for reinterpretation on the uke! The Ukulele Orchestra does away with drums, piano, backing tracks, pitch shifters and electronic trickery. They play a virtuosic collision of raw post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies – from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western soundtracks . This is a performance routinely met with standing ovations.
Experience the Ukulele Orchestra, and you’ll never think about music in the same way!
‘The best musical entertainment in the country…worth travelling a thousand miles to hear.’ - THE INDEPENDENT