On the Cover
Ukulele Ephemera
Special Focus: You and Your Ukes
- Uke Mania: Filling Out Your Ukulele Collection
- Storing and Transporting Your Ukes (Humidity care)
- Build Your Own: Ukulele Classes help people create their own instruments
- The Aloha Shirt: A history of the aloha shirt, by the definitive author Dale Hope
- Ukulele Ephemera (classic icons of ukulelelia), By Jumpin’ Jim Beloff
Features and Departments
- Jake Shimabukuro’s daring new record, plus his side job as a luthier
- Lil’ Rev, plus a claw hammer lesson
- Why I Uke: Taimane Gardner
- Club Uke: Albuquerque Scene, by Heidi Swedberg
- Uke News: News Roundup
- Gods of Uke: Ernest Ka’ai, plus a full song of one of his ultimate classics
- George Formby – a singer of risqué songs who was a favorite of Queen and The Beatles
- Uke Basics: A classic Irish tune (for St Patrick’s Day), Minor Chord primer, and song structure with “Hey, Good Lookin'”
- Great Ukes: The Birth of the the Baritone: Favilla and Vega
- Gear Reviews: Short reviews of the Duke Uke and Gold Tone banjo ukes, Gruv Gear gigbag
Key Dates
- Advertising reservations due by November 25, 2016
- Advertising materials due by November 30, 2016
- Issue on sale January 24, 2017