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Jake Shimabukuro at Fred Taylor's Jazz & Heritage Series at Cabot

Courtesy of Sue Auclair | Posted on September 25, 2017

Where

Cabot
Fred Taylor's Jazz & Heritage Series

286 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA
Map
978 927 3100

When

Sat, October 28, 2017
8:00 pm

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Musicians

About

Consider the humble ukulele. It’s an adaptation of a stringed instrument that traveled with Portuguese immigrants who came to work in the sugar cane fields of Hawaii. Islanders made the “machete” their own, mixing external influences of classical European music and Spanish guitar with Hawaiian songs. Native Hawaiians renamed the little machete the ukulele and it’s become synonymous with Hawaiian music and Hawaiian culture.

Jake Shimabukuro comes from that same process of mixing both island and outside influences, both modern and historical. He’s combined the qualities of a long line of virtuoso ukulele players with modern rock musicians to create a sound that’s uniquely his own but still firmly grounded in Hawaiian tradition....

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