Jake Shimabukuro in Concert (rooftop)

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Venue Hugh's View Rooftop
533 Eaton Street
Key West, FL 33040-7041 GET DIRECTIONS

Phone Number 305.296.0458

Over the past two decades, Jake Shimabukuro has proved that there isn’t a style of music that he can’t play. While versatility for any musician is impressive, what’s remarkable about Shimabukuro’s transcendent skills is how he explores his seemingly limitless vocabulary – whether it’s jazz, rock, blues, bluegrass, folk or even classical – on perhaps the unlikeliest of instruments: the ‘ukulele. Responding to the urgent calls of his fervent imagination, the Hawai’i-born virtuoso has taken the ‘ukulele to points previously thought impossible, and in the process he’s reinvented the applications for this tiny, heretofore under-appreciated four-string instrument, causing many to call him “the Jimi Hendrix of the ‘ukulele.”

Old Town New Folk made possible by Nick and Lorie Howley, John and Marilyn Rintamaki and Nell Smets. Series sponsored by Blue Heaven, concert sponsored by Key West Fine Wines