Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past two decades, Jake Shimabukuro has proved that there isn't a style of music that he can't play on his ukulele. Since ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Local On 2 first heard his tracks, we thought we were grooving to a guitar. Our jaws dropped when we realized that Jake ...

An aura of inherent boyishness infuses ukulele star Jake Shimabukuro. He has the gee-whiz adventurousness of an extreme skateboarder, game to go for the impossible, coupled with a disarming humility ...

Though many still have trouble pronouncing his last name and the instrument he plays, Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row) is becoming recognized as one of the world's top ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay) ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK – Ukulele sensation Jake Shimabukuro usually gets at least one backhanded compliment after one of his performances. The person who gives it is typically someone who’s been dragged to one of ...

This is . Opening up sounds and harmonies and taking an unexpected direction, that is a key element to the complex music made by you go your true so Jake. He is taking a simple instrument in new and ...

World tours, documentaries, a TED Talk; through all the attention ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro is still just completely amazed at his life. “I’m still in shock. I never thought I’d be doing what ...

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...