Jake Shimabukuro

After his triumphant 2023-24 Season run, Jake Shimabukuro brings his joyful holiday classics program to the Miner stage.

Widely recognized as “the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele, Shimabukuro has created an international fanbase as a sensational performer whose concerts leave audiences awed, dazzled and delighted. Over the past two decades, he's become a one-man army advancing the ukulele cause, turning the four-string axe into a supremely pliable musical vehicle, capable of generating everything from power chord rock to sensuously swinging jazz. Strumming with a hummingbird blur, he coaxes an impossibly big sound out of the instrument through his intoxicating repertoire of pop tunes, American Songbook standards and lilting originals.

Shimabukuro has released a staggering 25 albums for the global and Japanese markets since his 2002 debut Sunday Morning, including his 2006 breakout U.S. hit Gently Weeps and his 2012 Alan Parsons-produced showstopper, Grand Ukulele. The success of these recordings leaves no doubt why fellow string renegades such as banjo star Béla Fleck, fiddle wizard Darol Anger, and cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma embrace Shimabukuro as one of their own.

He brings his ebullient virtuosity to these evenings of beloved holiday favorites, imbuing them with a feeling of festive warmth and a tropical vibe.