Family and friendship is important to Jake Shimabukuro. On Monday, Dec. 13, in Breckenridge, the Hawaii-born ukulele artist will perform songs written by his idols with a group of his friends on stage ...

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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 ...

Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro doesn’t limit himself with what he can present with his instrument. Part of his repertoire is holiday music, which he presents with a special show meant to inspire and ...

There are times throughout Jake Shimabukuro’s star-studded new album, Jake & Friends, where he literally sounds like he’s guesting on his own effort. That’s not surprising of course; when you populate ...

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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Jake Shimabukuro first picked up the ukulele at the age of four, drawn in by the instant gratification of its motivating and encouraging nature. Shimabukuro, referred as the “Jimi Hendrix of ukulele,” ...

When Jake Shimabukuro thinks white Christmas, images of sand, not snow, are conjured. “That’s because I grew up in Hawaii,” Shimabukuro said while calling from Cupertino, California. “Christmas for me ...

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro is set to perform at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on October 7 at 8 p.m. Shimabukuro has been dubbed “the Jimi Hendrix of the ‘ukulele.” Get ...

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 ...