Jake Shimabukuro: which song should he play on ukulele for Boing Boing?

Mark Frauenfelder 10:00 am Mon Oct 24, 2011

You might know that I'm a big fan of Jake Shimabukuro, who is probably the greatest living ukulele player. His latest album, Peace Love Ukulele features his standing-ovation cover of Bohemian Rhapsody that he performed at TED last year.

I interviewed Jake at TED and asked him to play on old Hawaiian song for me. He is a great musician and a very nice person. So I'm happy to announce that Jake has agreed to allow Boing Boing's readers to select a song for him to perform on Boing Boing. Choose a song from the list below (after the jump) and at the end of the week, I'll tally the results and let Jake know which song to cover. He'll make a video especially for Boing Boing. Thanks, Jake!

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