HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Shawn Yacavone grew up surrounded by the ukulele. At home and at school, in parks and in friends’ houses — it was everywhere. “There’s always some music going on in the ...

Jim Beloff, 66, recounts his experiences in a new book, “UKEtopia!: Adventures in the Ukulele World,” an extensively illustrated history of the modern ukulele. In 1997, the same year the company went ...