An Evening with Jake Shimabukuro 35 Station St. Chattanooga, TN 37408
Location: Songbirds North Stage Dates: January 26, 2020 Time: 7:00 PM
to 9:00 PM Price: $ Phone: (423) 531-2473 Visit Website Overview Map
Doors: 6PM | All Ages | Tickets: $30 Often referred to as the Miles
Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee and Michael Jordan of his craft, Jake
delivers performances around the world with an out-of-the-box blend of
stunning virtuosity, deep musicality and a natural entertainer's
flair. What They Say: “Jake is taking the instrument to a place that
I can’t see anybody else catching up with.” - Eddie Vedder, Pearl
Jam “With Shimabukuro, the ukulele has found its Eric Clapton.”
– San Jose Mercury News "To say Shimabukuro plays the ukulele is
like saying Tiger Woods plays a little golf." - Nuvo Newsweekly
“Jake Shimabukuro is a force to reckoned with.” – National
Geographic “One of the hottest axmen of the past few years doesn’t
actually play guitar.” – Rolling Stone “Forget everything you
know about the ukulele” – Time “Shimabukuro showed himself to be
the closest thing the ukulele world has to a rock god.” – Asbury
Park Press In 2005, Shimabukuro’s touring career really came to life
with a video on YouTube. “I didn’t even know what YouTube was at
the time, so I was totally surprised when people started telling me
they’d seen a video of me playing ‘While My Guitar Gently
Weeps,’” he says. “Before I got a chance to check it out myself,
the video had gone viral and a lot of music industry folks seemed to
know about it. It was crazy!” Shimabukuro’s deeply beautiful and
original take on George Harrison’s love ballad, one which captured
colors and moods never associated with the ukulele before, opened the
floodgates – now legions of new music lovers had to hear this
instrumental marvel – and the 2006 release of Gently Weeps (produced
by Mac McAnally), which mixed his own originals with equally
adventurous versions of “Ave Maria” and “The Star-Spangled
Banner” was an unqualified success. Shimabukuro’s records have
topped the Billboard World Music Charts on numerous occasions, and as
a live performer he has become one of the hottest tickets around.
He’s played with world-renowned orchestras and at prestigious venues
such as the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House,
and has dazzled audiences at music festivals including Bonnaroo, SXSW,
the Playboy Jazz Festival and Fuji Rock Festival. He even performed
for that rarest of audiences: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Not too
shabby for a humble young man from Hawaii and his trusty ukulele. Even
with the constant demands on his time – Shimabukuro tours roughly
half the year and makes frequent appearances on media outlets such as
The Today Show, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night
with Conan O’Brien, A Prairie Home Companion and NPR’s Morning
Edition – Shimabukuro’s album output hasn’t slowed. In 2016, he
recorded the all-original Nashville Sessions at Music City’s famed
Ronnie’s Place studio with producer R.S. Field (Steve Earle, Webb
Wilder) and the ace rhythm section of bassist Nolan Verner and drummer
Evan Hutchings. And now he’s returned to the same city and studio
– and with the same gang, too (augmented by guitarist Dave Preston)
– for his newest record, The Greatest Day, which will be released on
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