Ukulele Orchestra play Worthing

The all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain celebrate their silver jubilee at Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre on Saturday 11th September.

The orchestra reinterpret every style of music from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Reading and Spaghetti Western soundtracks. Their melodious performance features only the “bonsai guitar” and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies.

The Ukulele Orchestra started in 1985. Since then, the orchestra has given thousands of concerts, TV and radio appearances all over the world. Their music has been used in films, plays, and commercials. They have collaborated with Madness, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Ministry of Sound.

The six to eight members of the orchestra use the limitations of their ukuleles to create musical freedom. They play instruments both small and large, in high and low registers while sitting in chamber group format, dressed in formal evening wear.

You may never think about music in the same way once you’ve seen and heard The Ukulele Orchestra. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's Silver Jubilee Tour is at the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing on Saturday 11th September.

A month later, Worthing hosts a new ukulele festival, Wukulele, which takes place from 8th-10th October in venues across the town.