KOHALA COAST — Best known for his fluid fingering and effervescent style, ukulele master player Jake Shimabukuro will have his audience on the edge of their seats next Friday night at a special ...

Eddie Vedder hunches silently over his stool, ragged flannel and ragged soul. Alone onstage, he cradles a tiny wooden instrument. Bass Concert Hall holds its breath. We'd sat in neat rows waiting for ...

Though many still have trouble pronouncing his last name and the instrument he plays, Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO- koo-row) is unquestionably regarded as one of the world’s top ukulele ...

PICTURE Bruce Lee with a ukulele -- yes, a ukulele. What probably comes to mind is a pile of splinters. Jake Shimabukuro imagined the late martial-arts star with a ukulele, and the vision he got was ...

Jake Shimabukuro has been the world’s most popular and commercially successful ukulele player for the past five years. Credit for this goes to his remarkable online ...

The saxophone, Jake Shimabukuro points out, has some severe limitations. “It only plays one note at a time. You can never express a full chord,” he said. “You wouldn’t be able to accompany a singer ...

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 ...

Jake Shimabukuro, who now may be the world’s best-known touring ukulele player, could barely? contain his glee. “Fiji’s gonna be there!” he said of the Poke Bowl, a Polynesian music festival at SOMO ...

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Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro played Sunday night to a sold-out house at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz. Shimabukuro, a Santa Cruz favorite appeared with bassist Jackson Waldhoff, as well as with ...

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 ...