{"id":25243,"date":"2012-11-30T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=25243"},"modified":"2012-11-28T01:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T05:32:52","slug":"an-evening-with-jake-shimabukuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=25243","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Jake Shimabukuro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, November 30, 2012<br \/>\nNYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts<br \/>\n60 Washington Square South, NY NY, 10012<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jake_Shimabukuro.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[25243]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jake_Shimabukuro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is rare for a young musician to earn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. It is even harder to find an artist who has entirely redefined an instrument by his early thirties. Jake Shimabukuro has already accomplished these feats and more on the ukulele.<\/p>\n<p>In the hands of Shimabukuro, the traditional Hawaiian instrument of four strings and two octaves is stretched and molded into a bold, complex new musical force. He effortlessly mixes jazz, rock, classical, traditional Hawaiian music, and folk on his \u201cuke\u201d creating a sound that is technically masterful, emotionally powerful, and utterly unique.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.nyu.edu\/events\/\">www.apa.nyu.edu\/events.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more events, please follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AsianInNYFans?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">www.facebook.com\/AsianInNYFans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, November 30, 2012 NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 60 Washington Square South, NY NY, 10012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25247,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25243\/revisions\/25247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}