SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Hours before playing a sold out concert, an acclaimed group of musicians took time to play with the Santa Barbara Ukulele Club at the harbor. It was a special treat for the ...

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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will perform at Stanford Live on March 23. Courtesy Stafan Mager. A ukulele band walks into Windsor Castle to play for the queen … It’s not the set-up for a joke ...

Created in 1985 by Kitty Lux and George Hinchliffe, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, using instruments bought with loose change, which ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1 at UCSB Campbell Hall. Four decades (and 400 million plucks) since its founding, the Ukulele Orchestra of ...

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doesn’t possess the same gravitas in the orchestral world as say, the London Philharmonic. But Mitch Gershenfeld, president and CEO of the McCallum Theatre, ...

So many of us think we’re too busy, too clumsy, or too damn old to learn music; and even if we play, we’re often too self-conscious to let loose in public. On December 15, the Ukulele Orchestra of ...

The group that spawned a thousand ukulele orchestras and inspired millions of players. "Plucking brilliant" Sunday Times "Absolutely the Best of British" Monty Python's Michael Palin From the North ...

When George Hinchliffe first heard a recording of Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders, one of Britain's most popular bands in the 1930s and '40s, he was drawn more to the sharkskin drums ...