BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4a8b3b07-9def-4efa-ab81-5ec71b666786@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261012T010958Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T210000 SUMMARY:Jake Shimabukuro DESCRIPTION:Since gaining prominence in the early 2000’s\, ukulele marvel Jake Shimabukuro has mesmerized audiences with his innovative and dynam ic style\, taking the instrument to dizzying new heights. Over a dozen s olo albums\, Shimabukuro has shown a knack for moving effortlessly betwe en genres\, sometimes in the same song. After being taught the instrumen t by his mother at age four\, Jake became a local phenom\, performing on his own and in a local group Pure Heart. Early in his solo career he be came a YouTube sensation when his cover of George Harrison’s “While My G uitar Gently Weeps” went viral. Since then\, Jake has gone on to play th e world’s most venerable venues\, from The Hollywood Bowl to Lincoln Cen ter to the Sydney Opera House and The N.O. Jazz Fests and collaborated w ith some of the world’s greatest musicians\, including Yo-Yo Ma\, Bela F leck and The Flecktones\, Jimmy Buffett\, Jack Johnson\, Bette Midler\, Ziggy Marley\, Sonny Landreth\, Billy Strings\, Lukas & Willie Nelson an d Warren Haynes. Shimabukuro has also won his share of awards and\, just a few years ago he was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a M ember for the National Council on the Arts. One strong thread that runs through much of Shimabukuro’s work is that of collaboration. From the Tr io album to Jake & Friends to Grateful and beyond\, Shimabukuro thrives in the ability to feed off and inspire his fellow musicians. For his bra nd-new project Blues Experience\, Shimabukuro joins forces with his frie nd\, drumming legend and founding member of Fleetwood Mac\, Mick Fleetwo od\, to create a fresh new take on the Blues. “I’ve always wanted to do a Blues album and when Mick and I started talking about working together \, I thought who better to work with than Mick Fleetwood?” The result is something exhilarating and unique\, as these two titans of their instru ments reinterpret some of the greatest songs written by some of their fa vorite songwriters in a Blues setting. It’s a union whose roots go back to the late 1990s when a young Shimabukuro met and played with Fleetwood at the Hawaiian Music Awards ceremony along with singer songwriter Kenn y Loggins. It wasn’t until a few years ago\, that the two were reconnect ed by a mutual friend at a Fleetwood Mac reunion concert in Nashville. T hat night\, the seeds of the collaboration were planted at Fleetwood’s s uggestion. Not long thereafter the two convened along with Jake’s tourin g bassist Jackson Waldhoff and keyboard player Michael Grande to start w ork on a new studio album in Maui. Mark Johnstone from The Mick Fleetwoo d Blues Band plays keys on two songs\, “Need Your Love So Bad”\, and “Ro ckin’ In The Free World”. Over the course of two 3-day sessions\, the ba nd recorded 9 songs live in the studio. The only track that was not reco rded with all of the musicians playing together was Sonny Landreth’s bri lliant slide guitar on the Jeff Beck/Stevie Wonder classic “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”. This soaring track full of peaks and valleys was a tre mendous way to start the album. The interplay between Landreth and Shima bukuro is so seamless\, you’d never know that they did not play together in the same room. The Chemistry is due in large part to the two perform ing the song w ww.sarapetite.com | www.fortybelowrecords.com together du ring a recent tour. In addition\, Sonny would often sit in with Jimmy Bu ffett’s Coral Reefer Band back when Jake was a member. Up next is a trul y unique interpretation of the Blues standard\, “Rollin’ N Tumblin’”. Th e song fades inwith a swirling\, delay-drenched psychedelic uke over top of Fleetwood’s tribal drumming pattern\, giving credence to why Jake is often referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele”. Then\, on a dim e\, Jake changes his sound and cuts to playing the song’s theme which is echoed nicely by the Hammond Organ. Jake’s playing on the track is expe rimental and otherworldly\, at times ascending into a psych jazz rock fu sion in the most visceral ways. “Mick’s energy when he plays is so infec tious. He’s such an intense musician. He pushes everyone around him and it’s so inspiring to see his facial expressions and watch his movements and the way he hits the drums\,” says Shimabukuro exuberantly. About “Ku la Blues” Jake explains\, “I’d never written anything that sounded this bluesy or a shuffle\, so I wanted to take a stab at it and have a song w here any musician could sit in without needing a chart”. Again\, Jake cr edits Mick Fleetwood with bringing the track to life. “He just got behin d the drums and without even counting it off came charging in. You eithe r jump on the train or get outta the way!” A couple of other standouts o n the album are “Whiter Shade of Pale” and “Rockin’ in the Free World”. Of the former\, Shimabukuro recalls “I was so in the moment\, I remember just closing my eyes and really forgetting my pedal board and everythin g and just reacting to Mick and the band.” Fortuitously\, The Bridge Sch ool Benefit\, founded by Neil Young had asked Jake if he would do a cove r of “Rockin’ in the Free World" the same week he and Mick were in the s tudio. The track has an explosive energy that builds to an incendiary ps ychedelic guitar\, ‘er make that ukulele solo spurred on by Fleetwood’s thunderous drums. One of the things that really comes across speaking to Jake about this record is the ‘spirits in the air’ during the recording s. This is particularly apparent on their rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “ Songbird”. Recorded not long after Christine McVie’s passing\, the band only did one take. You can feel the emotion in the performance. “I remem ber Mick took a moment of silence after the song ended and you could see that he felt Christine’s presence.” Fleetwood’s tom tom groove provides the heartbeat for Shimabukuro’s floaty\, ethereal uke\, as he moves nat urally between fast strumming chords and lilting melodic phrases. “I fel t so fortunate to be able to experience that with Mick. It was very powe rful to see the effect it had on him.” Another ‘ghost in the machine’ or ‘happy accident’ was the sound of the drums leaking into the ukulele’s electric pickup. Because the musicians were so close together\, you can hear all the drums on the ukulele track. When the fx are going on the uk e\, you get this cool subtle layer of the drum fx in the mix\, contribut ing to the overall vibe and cohesion of the record. Not long after the c ompletion of the record\, Maui was devastated by historic wildfires. At the benefit concert in Honolulu Fleetwood once again joined Shimabukuro and the band to perform the songs on Blues Experience for the first time . Before the performance\, Fleetwood gave a powerful and inspirational s peech to the community. Shimabukuro expands on this\, \, “Mick’s like th e point guard on a basketball team making everyone around him play bette r. It’s really incredible. He has such a huge presence\, charisma and en ergy. It was such an honor to do this project together.\n\nTickets: http s://www.ticketmaster.com/jake-shimabukuro-charleston-south-carolina-11-0 2-2026/event/2D0065288E2D8B34\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/4a8b3 b07-9def-4efa-ab81-5ec71b666786 LOCATION:Charleston Music Hall\, Charleston\, SC URL:https://findlocal.community/event/4a8b3b07-9def-4efa-ab81-5ec71b66678 6 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR