It’s been a decade since a viral YouTube clip made Jake Shimabukuro an international phenomenon and the first rock star of the ukulele. On that simple instrument, with its small body and four strings, ...
For his new holiday album, Tis the Season, Shimabukuro teamed up with old friends, including an archival performance with the late Jimmy Buffett . There's also a performance with Michael McDonald, but ...
“This is the underdog of all instruments,” said Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro as he opened his 2010 TED talk. “I’ve always believed that it’s the instrument of peace because if everyone ...
Jake Shimabukuro grew up with the ukulele. The diminutive four-stringed acoustic instrument is part of his native Hawaiian culture, designated as one of the state’s official musical instruments. When ...
How do you say ukulele in Hawaiian? Jake Shimabukuro. Advertisement Article continues below this ad If you go Jake Shimabukuro When: 8 p.m. Saturday Where: Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 30 Second St., ...
Musician Jake Shimabukuro is probably the most famous ukulele player in the world. His fingers dash like sprinters, his hands strum like torrential winds, and his music emanates from the instrument ...
It would be so easy to chalk all ukulele music up to a novelty act. After all, the ukulele has been sort of a second-class musical instrument outside of Hawaii. But Jake Shimabukuro, widely ...
Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro worked with a variety of music legends and he’s still in awe of them
There are four things Jake Shimabukuro loves: strumming his ukulele, connecting with people, his home of Hawaii and the holidays. Now, he’s combining them for a festive show, “Christmas in Hawaii,” ...
Years ago, an interviewer asked ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro whether there was any song he couldn’t play. “If you can hum it, you can play it on the ukulele,“ Shimabukuro said. The interviewer ...
Jake Shimabukuro is a soft-spoken, particularly polite 31-year-old Hawaiian who turns into Eddie Van Halen when he's holding a ukulele. There isn't a "Ukulele Hero'' video game. Any game that could ...
Jake Shimabukuro and blues-rocker Jesse Colin Young recorded “Get Together” for the new album. “He comes to (music) in a very childlike way, and you hear him discovering it,” Young said of ...
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