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Thank you to everyone who came out to see us at the CSUN Student Recreation Center Grand Opening and the Riverside Lunar New Year Festival this past week. We are gearing up for an exciting last weekend in February, when our core cast heads out to perform at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center and a small ensemble heads out to perform at the Arizona Matsuri Festival in Phoenix!
Preparations have begun for Rhythmic Relations 2012! Save the date--Saturday, June 30, 2012, 8 pm, for our most interesting show yet! We will be introducing a new youth taiko group, and performing eight songs that we have never performed before. Stay tuned for more details! We are also planning a month-long tour to the Northeast United States in February - March. Check out our timeline page, we may be coming to a city near you!
We just had an exciting end of 2011 and a quick beginning of 2012! We had a great time performing with Mansour in Las Vegas on Christmas Eve, then performing for three full houses at First Night Fullerton on New Year's Eve. Then yesterday we had our first performance of the year at the Oshogatsu Festival in Little Tokyo at Weller Court. Thank you to everyone who came out to all the shows!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our end-of-year Bonenkai yesterday! What a great end to a fantastic year--happy holidays everyone! If you feel like seeing TP over the holidays, we will be guest performers for a Christmas Eve concert with Persian superstar Mansour in Las Vegas, and then we are doing free performances as part of First Night Fullerton on New Year's Eve! Or, you can come to our first performance of 2012, Oshogatsu at Weller Court in Little Tokyo on January 1, at 11:00 am, also a free performance!
Only a few more weeks left in 2011! What a year it's been--here's a few videos of some of the shows we had this year:
53rd Annual Grammy Awards with Justin Bieber and Usher, NBC's The Voice with Vicci Martinez, our Rhythmic Relations home concert featuring chappa master Ryutaro Kaneko, our TEDxSoCal Presentation in Long Beach, the 2011 Do Something Awards with Jane Lynch of Glee, and our first ever News Feature on KTLA by Dave Malkoff and Phil Ige. Thanks everyone for your support this year!
We will be closing out 2011 with two major performances, first, a Christmas Eve concert with Persian superstar Mansour in Las Vegas, and then our debut at First Night Fullerton on New Year's Eve! Come on out and celebrate the end of 2011 with us!
Thank you to all the kids and teachers who came to our shows at the California Center for the Arts--especially the group that walked a couple of miles to the theatre! Wow!! Coming up next, our annual end-of-year Bonenkai, a quick trip to Las Vegas on Christmas Eve, and performances in Fullerton on New Year's Eve--a busy end to a busy year!
Thank you to everyone who came out and cheered for us at the Japan Rising Conference! Up next, we are heading to Escondido to perform two school presentations at the California Center for the Arts--hope to see you there!
Today we are performing for the Japan Rising Conference at the California Science Center in L.A. Participating in the conference? See you there!
Today and tomorrow we are onstage at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert to perform as part of their Aesthetic Education Series. We've put together a special 60-minute concert program just for the series and we're looking forward to performing for all the kids and their teachers coming out to the shows!
Yesterday we performed for Inner-City Arts' Annual Gala Dinner at the Beverly Hilton. Thanks Dolores and Scott for bringing us out to be a part of your event! Coming up next, we're heading back to the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert for a few shows for kids and teachers as part of their Aesthetic Education Series.
Our busy weekend is over! And, we just finished up our performance to kick off KCET's Local Heroes Awards Gala Dinner at Club Nokia. We have a little break, and then we'll be performing at Inner-City Arts' Annual Gala Dinner in Beverly Hills, and then at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert. Come on out if you're in the area!
This weekend we have two performances! First on Saturday, we will be appearing at the First Annual ZAMFest in Long Beach. Then on Sunday, we are performing at the Outback Yoga Center in Chatsworth. Coming up on Tuesday of next week, TP will be performing for KCET's Local Heroes Awards Gala Dinner at Club Nokia in downtown L.A.
Thank you to Stacey and the Blush girls for inviting us to perform with them at the 2011 ISA Festival! We had a great time and hope we get to share the stage together again soon. Coming up next, we have a weekend off and then three local performances, for ZAMfest, the Outback Yoga Center, and KCET!
Come on out this weekend to see the TP girls collaborate with Asian girl band Blush at the 2011 ISA Festival, produced by Far East Movement and Wong Fu Productions. They go on at 3:00 pm to kick off what looks to be an awesome line-up!
Thank you to everyone who came out to see us at the Port of LA Lobster Festival! Tomorrow, we perform for the AARP National Expo in downtown L.A. If you're attending the Expo, see you there! After that, we're collaborating with pop group Blush for the upcoming 2011 ISA Festival, produced by Far East Movement and Wong Fu Productions on October 1.
Tonight we perform at the Port of LA Lobster Festival! If you feel like some taiko and lobster, come on down! Next week, we'll be performing at the big AARP National Expo in downtown L.A., and then we have a bunch of local performances in October. Stay tuned for exciting updates about our 2012 Rhythmic Relations show! We will be trying out some new things creatively that has never been done before!!
Check out all the updated blog entries on the TP Blog. It was one of our busiest summers to date, so there are many stories to tell! Coming up, we are participating in the One Light Memorial next Saturday, and then starting our biggest youth taiko class ever, 18 kids on Sunday! Wish us luck, we'll need it!! After that, we are excited to perform for the Port of LA Lobster Festival on September 17. Gotta love their slogan, "Crazy Cooked Crustaceans Causing Chaos!"
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