{"id":506,"date":"2007-07-09T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/ukulele-magic--"},"modified":"2007-07-09T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T05:30:00","slug":"ukulele-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Ukulele Magic – Jake Shimabukuro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year at FloydFest 2006, I missed Jake Shimabukuro’s performance. <\/p>\n

I didn’t think much about it until I heard Scott Perry say, "I used to say I played the ukulele, until I heard Jake playing today. Now I say I am working<\/em> on playing the ukulele."<\/p>\n

Scott Perry is a competent musician and he plays many instruments well so this made me determined to look up Jake Shimabukuro<\/a> and find out for myself. I found Jake’s website<\/a> and learned that he has an international reputation and a number of CDs to his name.<\/p>\n

I still hadn’t heard any sound clips, so I kept searching until I found a few brief mp3 snippets on a few sites. These were interesting, but I did not get the sense of a performer of the stature that Scott Perry had described.<\/p>\n

I finally found this video on YouTube where Jake is playing George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". You have never heard a ukulele played like this…<\/p>\n

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