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The USGB Ukulele Band of the Year 2019
[Updated 8th November 2019]Competing Groups
27 Local groups from all over the U.K. took part in the first round of judging. The judges selected a shortlist of their favourite bands to go through to the final round of judging and the final results of the contest are shown below.
The winners:-
- 1st - The Kukes from Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex [watch their video]
- Runner-Up Ullalele from Otley, West Yorkshire [watch their video]
- 2nd Runner-up Doncaster Ukulele Group from Doncaster, South Yorkshire [watch their video]
The shortlist of 7 groups that went through to the final round was (alphabetically):-
- Doncaster Ukulele Group from Doncaster, South Yorkshire [watch their video]
- The Kukes from Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex [watch their video]
- Skuffle from East Grinstead, West Sussex [watch their video]
- Somerleyton Ukulele Strummers from Somerleyton, Suffolk [watch their video]
- The Ukes of Wellington from Wellington, Somerset [watch their video]
- Ullalele from Otley, West Yorkshire [watch their video]
- Ware Ukulele Group from Ware, Hertfordshire [watch their video]
The following 20 groups didn't quite manage to get into the shortlist, despite some very good performances:-
- All About Uke from Stafford & Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire [watch their video]
- The Assembly Line from Beverley, East Yorkshire [watch their video]
- Broadland Ukes from Aylsham, Norfolk [watch their video]
- The Central Ukulele Players from Gateshead [watch their video]
- Durham City Uke Group from Durham, County Durham [watch their video]
- Eynsham Ukuleles from Eynsham, Oxfordshire [watch their video]
- Fakenham Ukes from Fakenham, Norfolk [watch their video]
- The Florence Ukulele Group (The Flukes) from Egremont, Cumbria [watch their video]
- Fylde Ukulele Network from Fleetwood, Lancashire [watch their video]
- Huntingdon Ukulele Group (HUG) from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire [watch their video]
- Kings Lynn Ukulele Club from Kings Lynn, Norfolk [watch their video]
-
The Monkuleles
from Tameside, Greater Manchester
[watch their video]
(Web site is that of the choir with which they are associated) - Not Quite Dead Yet from Brownhills, West Midlands [watch their video]
- Sandy Ukulele Group from Sandy, Bedfordshire [watch their video]
- Sheffield Ukulele Group from Sheffield, South Yorkshire [watch their video]
- Ukes Akimbo from Bampton, Cumbria [watch their video]
- The Ukey D'Ukes from Swindon, Wiltshire [watch their video]
- Ukule-a-hee-hoo from Horley, Surrey [watch their video]
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Spalding from Spalding, Lincolnshire [watch their video]
- What The Pluck from Swindon, Wiltshire [watch their video]