From the Spring 2017 issue of Ukulele | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco is generally regarded as the event that first brought the ukulele to the mainland United States in a meaningful way. But the instrument made a prescient appearance several years earlier, when Ernest Ka’ai played at the … Continue reading Gods of Uke: Ernest Ka’ai, a Pioneering Ukulele Virtuoso, Composer, and Author