Jake Shimabukuro

Posted on June 27, 2012 by admin

UKULELE MASTER

Jake Shimabukuro

Jake Shimabukuro

If you like Chris Thile and Time for Three, you’ll love Jake Shimabukuro. Come hear what Rolling Stone, TIME Magazine, and others are talking about: a virtuosic musician who has been compared to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis.

Robert Moody
Robert Moody, music director
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

Tickets: $15 – $62

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Saturday, November 3, 2012
7:30p

Map
R.J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium

 

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Multimedia

Video still image of Jake Shimabukuro. Click to play video.

On YouTube

Jake Shimabukuro performs While My (ukulele) Gently Weeps. Click the play button on the image above to view the video.

Listen & Learn

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Jake Shimabukuro:
Gently Weeps
While My Guitar Gently Weeps {0:30}

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Jake Shimabukuro:
Peace Love Ukulele
Bohemian Rhapsody {0:30}

Connect

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In Print

Jake Shimabukuro

Salon.com

Ukulele sensation Jake Shimabukuro usually gets at least one backhanded compliment after one of his performances…More →

Jake Shimabukuro

American Way

by American Airlines

Go ahead and laugh at his little four-stringed ukulele. Jake Shimabukuro does not care. Feel free to call it a child’s toy…More →

Biography

Jake Shimabukuro

Jake Shimabukuro

It’s rare for a young musician to earn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. It’s even harder to find an artist who has entirely redefined an instrument by his early thirties. But Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-boo-koo-row) has already accomplished these feats, and more, in a little over a decade of playing and recording music…on the ukulele.

Yes, the ukulele. In the hands of Shimabukuro, the traditional Hawaiian instrument…

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