From an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Rocking Big Time on Little Ukulele"
Jake Shimabukuro is taking the ukulele to places that it’s never been before.
Just back from his first stint at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Shimabukuro was still buzzing from four nonstop days of making music. With his wiry build, tousled hair and impish smile, he looks younger than his 29 years.
"I got to sit in with a lot of Dixieland bands and I played with Jimmy Buffett in front of 120,000 people," Shimabukuro says, grinning at the memory. "I was so scared. I was only looking at Mac McAnally, the guitar player, or down at the ground. I played at the House of Blues with Keller Williams and I opened for the Radiators and then got to sit in with them. I also opened for Ivan Neville. Man, talk about the funk! We crammed three weeks of stuff into the four days we were in New Orleans."