Check this out (from CBC.ca).

“A Labrador City teenager who taught herself how to play the ukulele has won an international prize with a song about her hometown she recorded in her bedroom closet.

Kelsey Butt, 18, picked up the ukulele for the first time last December.

She did that after she saw a website announcing a Washington State ukulele maker was holding a songwriting competition called the Mya-Moe Ukulele contest. The top prize was a top-end ukulele worth $1,500.”