Byline: Nancy Sheehan

So you don't play the ukulele - yet.

Don't say you never will because it seems that almost no one is safe from the ukulele's four entrancing strings. There is a rising tide of renewed popularity for the once-belittled little instrument. There are more players now than there have been since the uke's most recent heyday of the 1950s. And the number is growing. Ukulele festivals, a global phenomenon of recent years, now can attract 3,000 people or more.

On a smaller scale - for now, anyway - was a festival organized by local uke ...

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