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Along with Lux and Hinchliffe, David Suich and Ritchie Williams are original members; Hester Goodman, Will Grove-White, Jonty Bankes, Peter Brooke Turner joined in the early 1990s, Leisa Rea joined in 2003, Ben Rouse in 2014 and Laura Currie in 2021. Lux died in 2017, two years after retiring from the orchestra due to chronic ill health.
Jan 10, 2022 · It has been seen worldwide by audiences including members of the British Royal Family and other crowned heads of Europe, at the Houses of Parliament in London, and by many millions of television and online viewers. In one territory, the Orchestra has played to audiences which comprise sixty percent of the population!
Jul 17, 2017 · It is with great sadness that we announce that Kitty Lux, founder and partner of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, died peacefully yesterday surrounded by family and close friends.
May 11, 2022 · The orchestra still has kept its founding members all this time, except for co-founder Kitty Lux who passed away back in July of 2017. The UOGB has picked up new members along the way to...
Sep 11, 2019 · He is also the founder and director of the the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, self-described as “a group of all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the ukulele.”
1 day ago · Saskia Solomon August 31 2024. It’s a song that brings to mind a striking image of the man who sang it on television in 1968: Tiny Tim — not as diminutive as his stage name suggests, at more than six feet tall — emitting a shrill falsetto while strumming a ukulele and batting away his mane of curly hair. “Oh, tiptoe from the garden/By ...
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Jun 24, 2008 · Musicologists explain the finer nuances of their subversive and high-quality ukulele playing and arrangements. Co-founder of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Kitty Lux sadly died in...
