For his new holiday album, Tis the Season, Shimabukuro teamed up with old friends, including an archival performance with the late Jimmy Buffett . There's also a performance with Michael McDonald, but ...

Shimabukuro’s holiday show hits Maui’s MACC Saturday — expect tracks from his new album and a few surprise collaborators.

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 ...

“This is the underdog of all instruments,” said Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro as he opened his 2010 TED talk. “I’ve always believed that it’s the instrument of peace because if everyone ...

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 ...

There are four things Jake Shimabukuro loves: strumming his ukulele, connecting with people, his home of Hawaii and the holidays. Now, he’s combining them for a festive show, “Christmas in Hawaii,” ...

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: I can remember clearly the first time my mom put the ukulele in my hands. I was 4 years old. She had me sit down on the floor cross-legged, and she handed me the ukulele, and taught ...

Jake Shimabukuro and his ukulele are a perfect illustration of the powerful bond between a musician and his instrument. The Hawaiian-born ukulele master said he and his Kamaka brand tenor, which he ...

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 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 ...