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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will perform at Stanford Live on March 23. Courtesy Stafan Mager.

A ukulele band walks into Windsor Castle to play for the queen … It’s not the set-up for a joke, but rather just one of the storied places that the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has performed in its 40-year history. 

The orchestra, which has a repertoire so wide-ranging that it encompasses, as their bio says, “Abba to ZZ Top, Tchaikovsky to Nirvana,” performed in 2016 by royal request at a private birthday party for Queen Elizabeth II. […]

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Heather Zimmerman has been with Embarcadero Media since 2019. She is the arts and entertainment editor for the group's Peninsula publications. She writes and edits arts stories, compiles the Weekend Express...