In 2009, Shimabukuro released his concert CD, "Live", which captures him in performance at various venues around the world: New York, Chicago, Japan, and Hawaii. It peaked at number 5 in "Billboard"'s Top World Music Albums in 2009 and 2010, won the Hoku for Instrumental Album of the Year, garnered Shimabukuro the award for Favorite Entertainer of the Year, and won the Hawaii Music Award for Best Ukulele Album. In November 2009, he accompanied fellow Hawaii-born Bette Midler at the "Royal Variety Performance". They performed a rendition of the Beatles song "In My Life" as the first of Midler's three-song set, and afterwards they met Queen Elizabeth and shook her hand.