Taimane Gardner 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.
This weekend, she’s inside Jaeb Theater at downtown Tampa’s Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Capable of fronting large ensembles (she did it with the San Francisco Symphony recently) and using the uke to write catchy pop songs (“Pikake Princess”), expect Taimane to tell stories, strum loudly and pluck delicately through originals and covers, too.
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This article appears in Nov. 20 – 26, 2025.