The TAIKOPROJECT DVD is now available! Click here to download an order form! Want to check out a preview? Click here to watch the 2004 TAIKOPROJECT Promo Video, which has clips from the DVD...
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The TAIKOPROJECT has been selected to be a part of the LA Musicians Roster, facilitated by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. By late June, you can see our profile up with the other reputable musicians online at their website, whom are eligible to be presented by concert venues for performances throughout Los Angeles...
Bryan rehearses the cast for the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial, featuring Julia and Yuri from the TAIKOPROJECT along with players from UCLA Kyodo Taiko and Venice Koshin Taiko. Pictures to come...this is going to be an interesting one... In other news, the next TAIKOPROJECT performance is this weekend, Sunday, May 1, 12:30 pm at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Check out the "timeline" page for details!
The TAIKOPROJECT and Kitsune Taiko perform at the
Monterey Park Sakura Matsuri. Check out photos here!
In other news, members of the TAIKOPROJECT are currently working on the development of a new Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial...stay tuned for more updates...
A bunch of updates...new gigs booked for the
Girl Scouts of America Summer Camp, El Camino College, and Santa Monica College. TAIKO JAM Tickets are now on sale--call the box office at (213)680-3700. Finally, Kitsune Taiko debuts their new costumes, their 'reds' at this past weekend's Hanamatsuri Program in Little Tokyo. Check out the photos here!
Bryan meets with staff at the
Japanese American National Museum to discuss the educational programming for their upcoming "Big Drum" exhibition, which opens in mid-July in Little Tokyo!
The TAIKOPROJECT is pleased to announce that the grant application that Vancouver, Canada-based youth group Chibi Taiko submitted to the 2010 Legacies Now program has been approved! For the next year, members of the TAIKOPROJECT will work with Chibi Taiko to develop new works to start including into their repertoire in 2006!
The TAIKOPROJECT is invited to participate in the Asian Arts Initiative's "Live Traditions/Contemporary Issues" Conference. The conference, held at the Painted Bride Arts Center is a two-day festival exploring the relationship between tradition and modernity and the function of heritage, identity, and hybridity in artistic practice and in the field of performance. If you're in Philly in early May, come swing by and check it out!
More videos posted online! Check them out on the media page! One is from our performance at Boeing's "Global Diversity Conference," and the other is a Food Network promo of last year's Tofu Festival (but don't blink or you might miss the two short clips of us)...
The Adult Beginning taiko class for April-May, 2005 is full! Both youth classes still have openings, so if you're between the ages of 8 and 14 years old (actual age please, not just mental age), you can still sign up! Download the flyer here!
Photos posted online from Bombu Taiko's recent performance at the Los Angeles Marathon XX at 39th Street and Figueroa (Mile Three). Good job, Joe (one of our Bombu members), who ran the marathon again, and next year, look for Joe and Bryan, who will both be running the marathon in 2006...
The TAIKOPROJECT has been asked to perform for this summer's biggest taiko concerts-- TAIKO JAM 2005, at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Little Tokyo! The two concerts on Saturday, July 16 (8 pm) and Sunday, July 17 (3 pm), are presented as part of the 2005 North American Taiko Conference. Tickets will go on sale soon, stay tuned here for updates...
The TAIKOPROJECT will be performing at 12:30 pm on May 1 at the Long Beach Museum of Art for a special free Children's Festival! If you're down in the Long Beach area, swing on by!
Download the Winter, 2005 TAIKOPROJECT Newsletter here! Check out updates on Bombu Taiko and Kitsune Taiko, Byron's article on "Paris By Night," and profiles of Michelle Fujii (TAIKOPROJECT), Louis Laudermilk (Bombu Taiko), and Christopher Tokita (Kitsune Taiko), plus updated tour dates for all three groups!
Members of the TAIKOPROJECT will be starting a new round of youth and adult beginners' taiko classes in April! Check out the flyer here! Come on, you know you've always wanted to give it a shot...
The TAIKOPROJECT's summer keeps getting busier and busier... just after the North American Taiko Conference ends, but before the Tofu Festival starts, we'll be performing for a week at the Hollywood Bowl as part of their Summer Sounds series. Check the timeline page for dates, which will be finalized shortly! In other news, Yuta's Beginning Taiko class starts next week, Feb. 15, at the Japanese American National Museum. Check it out!
The TAIKOPROJECT is asked to perform at the Monterey Park Sakura Matsuri, April 16. Opening for TAIKOPROJECT with their new costumes will be none other than Kitsune Taiko...oh yeahhhh...
The TAIKOPROJECT is asked to perform back at the 10th Annual Tofu Festival in Little Tokyo, August 13 & 14! Ah, tofu and taiko, such a delicious combination... Also, May 2005 will see us doing a number of educational programs at the Lumbini Child Development Center, the JACCC's "Kodomo no Hi" Children's Day program, and at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. Check the timeline page for all performance details!
Photos posted online from our recent performances at the Pacific Rim Elementary School in Carlsbad, California, and for Boeing's Annual Global Diversity Conference. Still thinking about purchasing the DVD? Check out photo stills from the DVD here!
The TAIKOPROJECT will have its first big performance of the year at the Irvine Hyatt Regency for Boeing's Annual Global Diversity Conference. Special thanks to Kathie Abe and Shelly De Jesus for making it happen!
Bryan, Yuta, and Byron head down to Carlsbad (just north of San Diego) for a school show at Pacific Rim Elementary School. Thank you to Tomi Pecore for arranging for us to come down to perform and to the Pacific Rim PTA for funding our visit!
Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu!! Happy New Year all! Hope 2005 is starting off well for you--as for us, we just got back from the Arts Presenters Conference in New York City with discussions for our Spring, 2006 Tour now underway...more details to come soon. In the meantime, if you feel like doing some reading, check out this undergraduate paper written by Chelsey Ruth and Philip Tanedo on "Yonsei Taiko" for Stephen Sano & Linda Uyechi's "Music 17Q: Perspectives on North American Taiko" class. Stay tuned for more videos to come online...
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