The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain | KulturImZelt Braunschweig

In the organizer's words:

Festival KulturImZelt 2025

📍 Bürgerpark, Braunschweig

🗓 August 21 - September 21, 2025

- More than 50 shows from the fields of live concerts, readings, cabaret & comedy. -

Including:

The year is 1985 - Wham is at the top of the charts and everyone has a mullet. The first cell phone (the size of a brick) comes onto the market and scientists find the wreck of the Titanic. We hear the name Microsoft Windows for the first time and Bob Geldof convinces almost everyone with a name to perform with him and raises millions for Live Aid. "Back to the Future" hits our screens... and what's coming over the hill? Why yes! It's the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, born in 1985.

Four decades (and 400,000,000 plucks) later, they continue to wow audiences around the world, from Tasmania to the Arctic Circle, from Windsor Castle to Carnegie Hall, with their offbeat British humor and four-string virtuosity. How do they do it?

Is it the menagerie of voices backed by post-punk and well-loved oldies? Or the fact that there are no drums, no pianos, playbacks, guitars or banjos, no auto-tuning and no electronic tricks - just the astonishing revelation of a rich orchestration performed by ukuleles and vocals?

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this institution with a rapid sprint through all musical genres: from ABBA to ZZ Top, from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana, from bluegrass to a spaghetti western to Lady Gaga. The ukulele orchestra presents its world tour "with hand luggage" to mark its 40th anniversary. A witty, quirky, irreverent, great, rousing obituary for rock'n'roll and melodic entertainment, all played on the "bonsai guitar". Catch them while you can!

"The best musical entertainment in the country."

- The Independent

"An oversized dose of unexpected hipness."

- The New York Times