08.15.05
Tofu Festival is over! Thanks to everyone that came out to see us and thanks to Bill Watanabe and the entire LTSC/Tofu Fest Crew for running a great festival! Check out photos from Tofu Festival 2005 here! Congrats on 10 Years of Tofu!! Up next, TAIKOPROJECT takes on DJ Tiesto at the L.A. Sports Arena. And check out the new headers, incorporating new photos of the L.A. cast by photographers extraordinaire Mari Nakano and Tedman Cheung!

08.06.05
The TAIKOPROJECT will be playing in a few weeks at Dodger Stadium for its first major sporting event! Right before the Dodgers take on the Colorado Rockies on August 24, we'll be rocking the stadium!!

08.04.05
The next performance of TAIKOPROJECT will be at the 10th Annual Tofu Festival! Come on down for some taiko-infused soy protein goodness.... mmm.....taiko-infused soy protein goodness...

08.02.05
The new Summer, 2005 TAIKOPROJECT Newsletter is now online! Click here to download the PDF! Check out articles on Bombu Taiko, Kitsune Taiko, and TAIKOPROJECT's recent and upcoming performances, member profiles, and more! To check out past newsletters, click here for Winter, 2005 and here for Summer, 2004!

08.01.05
Check out the new article on the TAIKOPROJECT here as part of the Japanese American National Museum's website for the "Big Drum" exhibition. Click here for a few photos from our performances at the Hollywood Bowl's Summer Sounds series, and stay tuned for our Summer Newsletter, photos from Higashi Obon, and the 2005 North American Taiko Conference!

07.28.05
Summer Sounds is almost over! Did you get to check out the sold-out shows? Stay tuned for short clips to be added to the TAIKOPROJECT website shortly--in the meantime, we're getting ready for the Tofu Festival, our collaboration with DJ Tiesto, and school shows for the Big Drum exhibition!!

07.21.05
Getting ready for performances at Higashi Obon and the Hollywood Bowl's Summer Sounds program, plus getting plans together for our performance in Tokyo in a couple of months...man, when do we get a break?

07.20.05
Bryan meets with East West Players' Artistic Director Tim Dang about working on the upcoming production of Tony Award-winning play Equus, at the David Henry Hwang Theater this Fall. More news to come...

07.19.05
The 2005 North American Taiko Conference has come and gone. Thanks to all the staff, advisory boards and committees who made it all happen! Thanks to everyone who helped make our performances at Taiko Jam '05 a great success as well! Check out photos from the concert here! Photos from the conference coming soon...

07.08.05
One week to the 2005 North American Taiko Conference...and our next big performance at TAIKO JAM 2005! See you there...?

07.06.05
TAIKOPROJECT is selected as one of the 12 finalists for the 5th Annual Tokyo International Taiko Contest! This October we're headed to Japan for our first overseas performances! We are proud and honored to be the first foreign group to participate in the event, and we hope to represent American taiko as best we can. We are looking forward to sharing our work with the Japanese taiko world and becoming another bridge between the two communities.

07.01.05
Yuri, Byron, and Bryan return from Maui after a successful performance tour with Kinnara Taiko. Thank you to Zenshin Daiko for inviting us out and for being great hosts! Check out photos from the tour here!

06.21.05
Just added a short preview clip of the TAIKOPROJECT Premiere DVD, which contains bonus slideshows and videos from the past 5 years of TAIKOPROJECT development...check it out...

06.20.05
A special thank you goes out to Mr. Kato (Yuta and Julia's Dad), of the Kato Taiko Company, who is working on restructuring our ohiradaiko stand and also made us a beautiful odaiko stand! Check out Mr. Kato's taiko workshop at the upcoming 2005 North American Taiko Conference!

06.17.05
This summer, you can check out the TAIKOPROJECT, playing with internationally-acclaimed DJ Tiesto at the L.A. Sports Arena on August 20. Check out his site here for more info. Taiko and a three-story LED wall, electronic music, and massive pyrotechnics? Sure, why not...

06.16.05
Check out the most recent photo gallery--just a few from our last community performance at the 8th Annual Murasaki Annual Karaoke Contest. We are pleased to announce that our TAIKOPROJECT Photo Galleries have just surpassed 10,000 visits in the two years they have been online!! In other news, Bryan meets with staff from the Nisei Week Japanese Festival about TAIKOPROJECT performing for this year's Coronation Ball.

06.14.05
The most recent TAIKOPROJECT online videos have been reformatted so that both Macs and PCs can view them! Check them out by clicking on the media link above!

06.12.05
TAIKOPROJECT performs in their last public performance at Murasaki's Annual Karaoke Contest in Honda Plaza for awhile...next up, TAIKO JAM 2005 at the Japan America Theatre, July 16 & 17 this summer...have you gotten your tickets yet?

06.07_09.05
The Mitsubishi Girls perform for the Mitsubishi Dealers of North America Meeting in Las Vegas. Check out photos from the trip here! In other important news, Bryan loses $43 in Texas Hold'em and Byron makes $150 in Craps late Wednesday night...

06.03.05
New videos from our Spring, 2005 performances added to our media page! Click the link above to check them out! Next week, we're off to Vegas...Vegas, baby, Vegas...in the meantime, check out the 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial here online!

06.02.05
Our profile is now up at the L.A. Musicians Roster website for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Check it out! Couple more gigs before the big Taiko Jam performance--next week in Las Vegas and then Sunday, June 12, to kick off the Murasaki Annual Karaoke Showcase.

05.26.05
Thank you to James Lee and the SMC APIA for putting on a great Asian Pacific Celebration yesterday! Check out photos by our buddy Carl Richards here! Click here to check out the new Mitsubishi commercial...and click here to check out photos by Yischon Liaw from the "Live Traditions/Contemporary Issues" Conference in Philadelphia.

05.23.05
The Mitsubishi commercial that we worked on is now airing! Check it out on the major networks... Click here to check out photos from the shoot that we did in late April. In a few weeks, we head out to Las Vegas to perform live for the Mitsubishi Dealers Conference at The Mirage, where they're debuting the 2006 Eclipse to the U.S. Market...in other news, we'll be performing free at Santa Monica College this Thursday at 12 noon. Swing on by if you're in the neighborhood!

05.09.05
Just got back from the Live Traditions/Contemporary Issues Conference at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. Check out photos from the tour here! Thank you to everyone who helped us out with the tour--June O'Neill, Gary San Angel, Anita Schillhorn Van Veen, Big Mike, Mr. Kazumi Ose, the tech staff at the Painted Bride Arts Center, Prof. Kim Arrow, and especially the one and only Executive Director at the AAI, Gayle Isa.

05.02.05
Did you see us in Long Beach? Yesterday the TAIKOPROJECT performed at the Long Beach Museum of Art for their 18th Annual Children's Festival. Check out photos by our buddy Carl Richards at our online galleries! Up next for the TAIKOPROJECT--performances in Philadelphia presented by the at the Asian Arts Initiative at the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia for the Live Traditions/Contemporary Issues Arts Conference!

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