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Friday 14th September
Oswestry School 600 Event

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Wynnstay Hotel, Oswestry, 7.30pm

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".

This description doesn't give you the full picture - to find out more about them visit their website www.ukuleleorchestra.com or you should really have a look at them on YouTube where you can catch an amazing version of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.

Convinced you need to see this concert?  Then look at Mr Croft's own website to find more details.

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