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"Beirut"? Nope, never heard of them nor visited the locale. "Alaska in Winter" is how I spent my first 22 years of life, but I have yet to listen to the band. I will have to take up the quest to hear them both out.
My discovery of love with the uke is painstakingly and quite accurately described in the autobiographical song: "The Uke Song" (copyright 2006 Mark Allen Johnson - (yours truly)). I will attach a low res recording of it now. There is a recent video of it