Eddie Vedder hunches silently over his stool, ragged flannel and ragged soul. Alone onstage, he cradles a tiny wooden instrument. Bass Concert Hall holds its breath. We'd sat in neat rows waiting for ...

KOHALA COAST — Best known for his fluid fingering and effervescent style, ukulele master player Jake Shimabukuro will have his audience on the edge of their seats next Friday night at a special ...

At show time, Jake Shimabukuro stepped on stage, took a bow and got right to it. With a smile on his face, he began strumming his ukulele, which looked like a guitar in his arms. But the chords he ...

My uncle Thad lives in a small town in western Kentucky. A few years ago, he was looking for videos online and came across what was then the most-popular clip on YouTube: a rendition of George ...

Pity the poor ukulele. Consigned to a less-than-respectable fate thanks to Tiny Tim and movies like Elvis Presley's Paradise, Hawaiian Style, this small four-string cousin to the guitar just can't get ...

Jake Shimabukuro has been the world’s most popular and commercially successful ukulele player for the past five years. Credit for this goes to his remarkable online ...

TAMPA -- Jake Shimabukuro has been called "the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele." Go on, have a belly laugh. Get it out of your system. But know this: It isn't far from the truth. The 27-year-old Hawaiian ...

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 ...

PICTURE Bruce Lee with a ukulele -- yes, a ukulele. What probably comes to mind is a pile of splinters. Jake Shimabukuro imagined the late martial-arts star with a ukulele, and the vision he got was ...

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“When you hear it, it’s like the sound of children laughing,” Jake Shimabukuro said while describing his instrument of choice, the ukulele. Growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii, Shimabukuro started playing ...