Ukulele master and jolly ambassador of aloha brings joy to the Strings Pavilion this holiday season

Jake Shimabukuro will deliver a special gift this December with the debut of his highly anticipated holiday show. With only four strings, Jake is a humble master whose mission is to connect and inspire people. Whether one on one or in front of an audience of thousands, Jake shares a deep emotional connection with the listener that is open, magical, and transcendent. Jake’s genuine love for people, the spirit of holidays, and his beloved home of Hawaii are at the forefront of his new show Christmas in Hawaii. It will be a warm welcome of merriment and wonder for the season.

In addition to his signature show favorites, this special concert will draw on holiday classics such as “We Three Kings,” “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “O Holy Night,” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” The show will also feature selections from Jake & Friends, his new album to be released in November 2021 featuring Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, Jack Johnson, Michael McDonald, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, and more.

Jackson Waldhoff will join Jake on bass along with two special guests: singer-songwriter Thunderstorm Artis on vocals and first-call percussionist Taku Hirano. Jake Shimabukuro’s Christmas in Hawaii is sure to become an eagerly anticipated annual family event.

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Brent and his two amazingly talented guests revive a musical tradition with this memorable show

Brent Rowan made his mark as a Nashville studio guitarist and record producer, nominated nine times for Country Music Association awards. In addition to over 15,000 recording sessions, he has played on dozens of film soundtracks and recorded with Chris LeDoux, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Olivia Newton-John, Sting, and Neil Diamond, along with many others.

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From the most influential and prolific comedy empire in the world comes an all-new electrifying live revue.

It all started with children’s games. Rooted in the groundbreaking improvisational games of Viola Spolin, The Second City opened its doors on a snowy Chicago night in December of 1959, and a comedy revolution began. Co-founded by Spolin’s son, Paul Sills, along with Howard Alk and Bernie Sahlins, The Second City was experimental and unconventional in its approach to both theater and comedy. Almost immediately, alumni of The Second City— including Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Fred Willard, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, and John Belushi— launched the theater into the international spotlight.

In 1976, Second City launched “SCTV,” which has been hailed as one of the greatest sketch comedy series of all time. The two-time Emmy winner featured an all-star cast made up of Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, and Rick Moranis. In addition to its stages, Second City Touring Companies perform electrifying revues and original productions across North America and abroad. We hope you enjoy the show…after all, it’s been almost 60 years in the making.

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Pioneering singer-songwriter with 3 Grammy awards is still earning accolades after more than 40 years

She has traveled a long road since her 1979 debut, Ramblin’ on My Mind. Over the course of fourteen remarkable albums, three Grammy awards, and countless accolades, including Time’s Songwriter of the Year of 2001, Lucinda Williams is one of our most revered artists, beloved for her singular vocals and extraordinary songs.

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Texas duo draws musical inspiration from groups like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and The Doobie Brothers, as well as songwriters such as Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. They will perform with special guest Mipso.

Jamestown Revival’s Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance forged a musical bond as teenagers growing up in Magnolia, Texas. Their newest album, Young Man, features skillful songwriting, flawless harmony, and intricate fingerpicking. With themes like coming of age and settling into an identity, Young Man is envisioned as a collection of songs that should be played all the way through. Sonically, the album evokes the experience of musicians huddled together, singing and playing without headphones or click tracks.

Mipso performs lush, harmony-laden Americana with southern roots and modern progressions. This North Carolina-bred four-piece captivates audiences with finely layered vocal harmonies, graceful fluency in the timeless musical traditions of their home state, and a near-telepathic musical connection that makes their live show especially kinetic. They last wowed crowds at the Strings outdoor stage in summer, 2021.

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ABOUT LEFTOVER SALMON – Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-a-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon. Offbeat calls them, “one of the most spirited, jovial bands of the jam band nation.”

“Leftover Salmon has built a fervent audience with an insatiable thirst
for its energetic live performances” -NPR’s Mountain Stage

In their earliest days, Leftover Salmon was a progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix. Unafraid to stir combustible styles into their ever-evolving sound, they became a pioneer of the modern jamband scene. Today, as elder-statesmen of the festival scene, Salmon keeps alive and vital the traditional music of the past– while pushing that sound forward with their own quirks.

Celebrating 30 years, the band now features a lineup that has been together longer than any other in Leftover Salmon history: founding members Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman, banjo-wiz Andy Thorn, bassist Greg Garrison, drummer Alwyn Robinson, and keyboardist Erik Deutsch.

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Miami trio delivers a mosaic of poolside grooves and lingering, sun-kissed melodies.

Shades on and shirts unbuttoned, this trio generates the kind of heat that could’ve powered a high-seas yacht party in the seventies or that might shake a Coachella stage next summer. Embracing everything from AM radio rock and poolside pop to nimble raps and salsa, the trio— Robby Hunter, Pat Howard, and John Coughlin— locks into an era-less vibe with no shortage of funk or hooks. These are the kind of bangers you can play on the way to the party, during the party, and to smooth over the comedown as the sun comes up.

ABOUT LOS LOBOS – After celebrating their 40th anniversary with the cleverly titled 2013 live album Disconnected In New York City, the hard working, constantly touring band – David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin – leaps headfirst into their fifth decade with an invitation to join them as they open fresh and exciting new Gates of Gold, their first full length studio album since 2010’s Tin Can Trust (a Grammy nominee for Best Americana Album) and second with Savoy/429 Records.

The dynamic songwriting, deeply poetic lyrics, thoughtful romantic and spiritual themes and eclectic blend of styles on the 11 track collection has resulted in an American saga in the rich literary tradition of legendary authors John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Yet true to form, these typically humble musical wolves started in on the project without any grand vision or musical roadmap. Over 30 years after Los Lobos’ major label breakthrough How Will The Wolf Survive? – their 1984 album that ranks #30 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s – their main challenge when they get off the road and head back into the studio is, as Berlin says, “trying not to do stuff we’ve already done. To a certain extent, we are always drawing from the same multi-faceted paint box, and we sound like what we sound like. We’re proud of what we feel is an honest body of work. We just want to keep finding new ways to say things.”

In the band’s early recording days – those years just before and after “La Bamba,” their worldwide crossover hit from the 1987 film which reached #1 on the U.S. and UK singles chart – they prepared for album recording sessions with top producers like T-Bone Burnett with pre- production that included multiple rehearsals and “outlining” what the project was going to be.

Louie Perez, the “poet laureate” and primary wordsmith of Los Lobos, once called their powerhouse mix of rock, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music “the soundtrack of the barrio.” Three decades, two more Grammys, the global success of “La Bamba” and thousands of rollicking performances across the globe later, Los Lobos is surviving quite well – and still jamming with the same raw intensity as they had when they began in that garage in 1973.

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He built his reputation on live performances that are always engaging, often hilarious. No two shows are alike; but they consistently keep the audience on their feet.

Un-beholden to conventionalism, Keller’s music encompasses rock, jazz, funk, and bluegrass. For most of his career he has performed solo with stage shows rooted around Keller singing his own compositions along with choice cover songs, while accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, bass, guitar synthesizer, and drum samples: a technique called live phrase sampling or looping. The end result often leans toward a hybrid of alternative folk and groovy electronica, a genre Keller jokingly calls ADM: “acoustic dance music.”

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Since 1998, The Motet have inspired the world with their unique style of dance music.

Over the course of nine full-length albums, they’ve traversed the lines between funk, soul, jazz, and rock and built a diehard audience in the process. They’ve headlined Red Rocks Amphitheatre six times and sold out countless legendary venues coast-to-coast. In addition to racking up nearly 20 million total streams and views, they’ve also garnered widespread acclaim from numerous publications including Relix, Glide Magazine, and AXS. The band has also graced the stages of festivals such as Bonnaroo, Bottlerock, Electric Forest, Bumbershoot, Summer Camp, and High Sierra.

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From writing for Late Night with Conan O’Brien to performing regularly on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, through multiple albums, books, a TV series, a film, and the recent Netflix hit comedy special “The Overthinker,” Demetri Martin’s style of stand-up comedy is no laughing matter. Or perhaps it is.

Demetri Martin is a stand-up comedian, artist, writer, and director. He won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh for his one-man show, “If I.” At the Melbourne International Comedy festival, his show “Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin” won Australia’s Barry Award. Demetri has released three stand-up comedy albums and four hour-long standup comedy specials, including his latest for Netflix, “The Overthinker.”

Demetri created and starred in his own television series for Comedy Central called Important Things with Demetri Martin. His books, This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, are New York Times Bestsellers. His latest book, If It’s Not Funny It’s Art>, features a collection of his original drawings. Demetri’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. He recently wrote and directed his first feature film, Dean, which won the Founder’s Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for best narrative American feature film.

Demetri has brown hair and he is allergic to peanuts.

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Two gifted singer-songwriter guitarists team up for a night of acoustic tune trading.

Anders Osborne’s six-string virtuosity, inventive musicality, and poetic songcraft underpin an ever-expanding three-decade career punctuated by critically acclaimed studio albums and extensive live touring.

Americana and roots singer-songwriter Jackie Greene is a jack-of-all-trades, an artist who can croon over soulful piano ballads as much as he can shred a bluesy guitar solo (like he did as the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes in 2013).

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Legendary bluesman has influenced Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, and so many more.

Taj is a towering musical figure— a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind, but by revealing their magnificent scope to the world. Quantifying the 77-year-old’s significance is impossible, but people try anyway. A 2017 Grammy win for TajMo, Taj’s collaboration with Keb’ Mo’, brought his Grammy tally to three wins and 14 nominations, and underscored his undiminished relevance more than 50 years after his solo debut. Blues Hall of Fame membership, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, and other honors punctuate his résumé. Taj appreciates the accolades, but his motivation lies elsewhere. “I just want to be able to make the music that I’m hearing come to me— and that’s what I did,” Taj says. “When I say, ‘I did,’ I’m not coming from the ego. The music comes from somewhere. You’re just the conduit it comes through. You’re there to receive the gift.”

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