United KingdomUkulele Orchestra of Great Britain is the #17,221 most-subscribed YouTube channel worldwide and #1,103 in United Kingdom, with 206K subscribers and 71.8M total views across 126 videos.
Biography
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) is a British musical ensemble founded in 1985 by George Hinchliffe and Kitty Lux. The orchestra features ukuleles of various sizes and registers from soprano to bass. The UOGB is best known for performing musically faithful but often tongue-in-cheek covers of popular songs and musical pieces from a wide variety of music genres taken "from the rich pageant of western music". The songs are often performed with a reinterpretation, sometimes with a complete genre twist, or well known songs from multiple genres are seamlessly woven together. Songs are introduced with light hearted deadpan humour, and juxtaposition is a feature of their act, the members of the orchestra wear semi-formal evening dress and sit behind music stands, in a parody of a classical ensemble.
Channel description
The 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.
A 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).
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Frequently asked
- How many subscribers does UkuleleOrchestra have?
- 206K subscribers — #17,221 worldwide, #1,103 in United Kingdom.
- What is UkuleleOrchestra's real name?
- UkuleleOrchestra's real name is Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
- When did UkuleleOrchestra start on YouTube?
- The channel was created in Nov 2009.