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 ...

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 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 ...

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 started playing ukulele at the age of 4 and soon fell in love with the instrument. As he tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson, ”My parents would have to take the ukulele away from me so ...

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 ...

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) ...

Six Maui public libraries will launch a new lending collection of ukulele beginning March 14. Library patrons may borrow an ukulele for a three-week period at no cost with a valid library card. The ...

Originally from Honolulu, Jake Shimabukuro takes a different approach to a traditional, Hawaiian instrument. Shimabukuro released a new album titled “The Greatest Day” on Aug. 31 and is on tour this ...

One of the longest operating jazz venues in the neighborhood just south of Los Angeles, and Orange County's premier supper club, The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano continues to bring in some of ...