
Bob Brozman (USA) has been called a "walking archive of 20th Century
American music". Voted "Best World Guitarist" in Guitar Player Magazine's
2010 Readers' Choice Awards, Bob is a prolific recording artist,
performer, producer, and author, a non-stop world traveler and tireless
researcher in ethnomusicology. Bob was voted "Best Acoustic Slide
Guitarist" by Acoustic Guitar
Magazine's Players'
Choice Award voters in 2009 - and as you would expect from this
legend of world music, he is an astonishing ukulele virtuoso.
http://www.bobbrozman.com/
Photo of Bob
Brozman by Ali Madjdi
Richard DurrantRichard Durrant (UK) was given a banjolele for his 8th birthday,
receiving a ukulele some thirty years later from George Hinchliffe as a
thank you for his work producing the album “The Secret of Life” by the
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. The ukulele features in all
Richard’s concert work, perfect for performing unaccompanied Bach.
Richard wrote the ukulele music for BBC1’s Skating Penguins logo
as well as uking his way through a 26 episode cartoon series
“Metalheads” for CBBC. Alongside his busy touring schedule Richard
gives ukulele demos and workshops at schools throughout the UK. He is
best known for his solo performances as “The Guitar Whisperer,” centred
around the classical guitar in collaboration with visual artists, often
using digital media.
http://www.richard-durrant.com
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Sophie Madeleine (UK) is one of the few people in the world who can
claim to be a "Master of Song", having graduated from the MA
Songwriting Course at Bath Spa University. With influences as diverse
as Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Burt Bacharach, the Beatles, Feist and
Aimee Mann, Sophie is a singer with an exquisite ear for melody for
whom the ukulele's idiosyncratic charms provide the perfect complement
to her own highly engaging skills as a performer.
http://www.myspace.com/sophiemadeleine

The Bobby McGees (UK) are a quartet of Brighton-based anti-folk
musicians who have impressed UK and Hong Kong audiences with their
exhilarating and wildly original live shows. Described as "Dostoyevsky
doing skiffle" by Everett True in Plan
B and like "a
domestic in a Glasgow boozer, but with ukuleles" by Rory Mackie in Clash Magazine, the Bobby McGees
have been featured by Channel 4's Film Four and have recently been
commissioned by Chevrolet.
http://www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
Sean O'HaganSean is composer of the School Ukulele Commission at Wukulele
Festival,
supported by PRS
for Music.
http://www.highllamas.com

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The Uke Box The Uke Box (Holland) brings together Shelley Rickey from
Mississippi, and Marko van der Horst and Rene 'Polygoon' Verberne from
the Netherlands. Purveyors of
"Melodramatic Popular Song," they host a monthly Ukulele Jamboree in
Rotterdam and tour with a Jumping Flea Market of musical curiosities
and wonders. The Uke Box make and build their own instruments from
recycled materials and they perform on cigarbox uke, singing saw, toy
piano, washtub bass, and child prodigy midget accordion.
http://www.ukulele-interventie.blogspot.com
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Ukulelezaza (Belgium) is Remco Houtman-Janssen, Ghent's answer to
Roy Smeck, and an organiser of Belgium Ukulele Festival. A dazzling
virtuoso with a vast collection of vintage instruments and a breadth of
knowledge to match, he draws on ragtime, the
Hawaiian masters and in particular British ukulele players like Peter
Moss, George
Formby, Billy Uke Scott and Steve Helme. Ukulelezaza's act includes as
many
different styles of playing as there are types of ukulele in his
collection.
http://www.youtube.com/ukulelezaza

Yan Yalego (France) has been playing blues, folk, primitive jazz and
French chanson for over 20 years. Well known in the international
ukulele community, he has toured widely
including on Ukulele Safari with Bosko &
Honey. His Ukulele Kitchen Party is a home performance
which takes place in people's kitchens, driving them into a "swamp in
the moonlight" ambience. For
Wukulele he swaps dreams of wide open spaces and
phantasmagorical forays into heady soundscapes for the down-home
exotica of Worthing.
http://www.yalego.org
Supported by bureauexport