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Saskia Says

SASKIA SAYS are a pop-rock four piece from Cheltenham, UK. Offering up catchy, feel-good tunes, their tracks will wrap themselves around you like a musical hug and leave you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside! The band met whilst swatting up on the music industry via Gloucestershire

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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Founded in 1985, The Ukulele Orchestra is a group of all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players, who use instruments bought with loose change, and who believe that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation. All of their music is ukulele and vocals, without any accompaniment. There are seven performers with the orchestra: Dave Suich, Peter Brooke-Turner, Hester Goodman, George Hinchliffe, Kitty Lux, Will Grove-White, Jonty Bankes as well as two associate players: Richie Williams and David Coulter

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The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra

The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra is one of the most popular music-comedy acts to come out of New Zealand in years. As well as impeccable musical skills, heavenly harmonies and a canny choice of covers, the dozen-strong strummers have sold-out audiences rolling in the aisles with their on-stage antics. Featuring eleven ukuleles anchored by a double bass, the band

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Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Joseph Forsyth Johnson CBE (known as Bruce Forsyth, born 22 February 1928) is a British showman and entertainer. He became well-known through the series Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and became a household name in the UK, going on to present television series such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right and Strictly Come Dancing.

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The Burning Hell

The Burning Hell is the alter-ego of songwriter and ukulele-slinger Mathias Kom. Loosely based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, The Burning Hell has toured back and forth across Canada and Europe since 2007, playing everywhere from festivals to bars to living rooms - and once even a mental asylum in rural France. The band has garnered acclaim for their hyperactive live shows and their caustic yet sincere lyrics, believing as they do that songs about the inevitability of death can also be fun to dance to.

Read more about The Burning Hell on Last.fm.

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Tiny Tim

The name Tiny Tim was first popularized by author Charles Dickens, and has been used by several musical performers including a jump blues singer, and a rockabilly artist but is most commonly associated with Herbert Buckingham Khaury (April 12, 1932

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Sophie Madeleine

An adorable little girl from Brighton, England. There comes a time in a true originals career where they become more than the sum of their influences. Sophie Madeleine's star is in such an ascendant, and we are witnessing the results of some maverick fusion. Steeped in an inherited classicism (she had a music-lover for a father,) she absorbed the greats of the last century - from Cole Porter to Gershwin, Bacharach, Beatles and beyond. Shades of Feist and Aimee Mann haunt her delivery, whilst she shines a light on the love song in a way that is at once candid, secretive and strange.

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Julia Nunes

Julia Nunes (pronounced NOONZ) is a native to upstate NY. She is a talented songwriter, guitarist, and ukulele player. "She has a voice like no other..." Her talent is just now reaching to the public from internet websites such as YouTube.com and Myspace.com. Her first album, "Left Right Wrong" is being sold in the USA and Europe, as well as other countries throughout the world. Her second album, "I Wrote These" is available now.

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