{"id":54848,"date":"2025-11-20T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:34:09","slug":"ukulele-wielding-hawaiian-composer-taimane-plays-tampa-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54848\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukulele-wielding Hawaiian composer Taimane plays Tampa on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taimane Gardner<\/a> comes home to Honolulu for the Thanksgiving holiday and gets to play a Blue Note gig there, but not before a swing through Kentucky and Florida where three shows play like something of a warmup for a three-month spring run that takes the 36-year-old ukulele player and composer from Alaska to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

This weekend, she\u2019s inside Jaeb Theater<\/a> at downtown Tampa\u2019s Straz Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

Capable of fronting large ensembles (she did it with the San Francisco Symphony recently<\/a>) and using the uke to write catchy pop songs (\u201cPikake Princess\u201d<\/a>), expect Taimane to tell stories, strum loudly and pluck delicately through originals and covers, too. <\/p>\n

Tickets to see Taimane play Jaeb Theater at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa on Sunday, Nov. 23 are still available and start at $41.65.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This article appears in Nov. 20 \u2013 26, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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