After first gaining attention for his 2006 YouTube clip of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” the ukulele virtuoso has not only become big in Japan and Hawaii but he’s popular with other musicians. He has opened for and sat in with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. His 2021 album “Jake & Friends” featured Bette Midler, Lyle Lovett, Michael McDonald, Warren Haynes and others. Whether he’s playing blues, rock, jazz, country, folk, flamenco or Hawaiian music, Shimabukuro dazzles with his four-string mastery. His new album, “Grateful,” is not a tribute to the Dead but to his fellow Hawaiian musicians including Henry Kapono, Brother Noland and Justin Kawika Young, who is his opening act in Minneapolis. (STAR TRIBUNE)