Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Coming to Kingsbury Hall

Now with more songs, more tunes, and with yet more added bonus ukuleles, including the tiny sopranino, the contrabass, and the fuzz-distorted, portable "non-mains-electricity" Judas Ukulele, the all-singing, all-plucking Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain comes to Kingsbury Hall with their toe-tapping music, hilarious banter, and sheer superlative entertainment.

The Ukes, as they are affectionately known, are performing at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Monday, January 26 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $24.50 to $44.50, with a $5 ticket for U of U students and a $10 ticket for all other students, and are available at www.kingtix.com or by calling 801-581-7100.

On Tuesday, following their public performance on Monday evening, the musicians will perform for all of the seventh grade students at Northwest Middle School, where ukulele instruction is included in the curriculum. The school performance will include a play-along song with participation from students.

From Lady Gaga to "Ride of the Valkyries", from "Housewives Choice" to "Voodoo Chile", the ukes' genre-crashing antics continue. This timeless group brings a new, lively immediacy to its material in a hilarious, entertaining, witty shopping trolley dash through all genres of music, from pompous classical to trivial pop, and vice versa.

Don't take their celebrity fans word for it, whether Michael Palin, Timothy West, Bette Midler, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Michael Gambon or Jeremy Paxman. See and hear for yourself why superlative word-of-mouth recommendations have led to sold-out shows and standing ovations all over the world.