08.29.06
Tomorrow we perform at the prestigious Juried Showcases for the Western Arts Alliance Annual Conference in Long Beach! Then, Saturday, we perform at Bar Sinister. There's still space left in our Fall Taiko Classes if you're considering it! Sign up today!
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Now's your chance to learn taiko!! After a long class hiatus (it's been too busy of a year to facilitate new taiko classes), the TAIKOPROJECT is pleased to offer Beginners' Taiko Classes for Youth and Adults starting in mid-September! Download the Taiko Class Info Sheet for all the details--registration is open now. Also, for continuing taiko players, check out On Ensemble's continuing taiko classes taught by our own Maz "Iiyan!" Baba and our buddy Kris "The Berg" Bergstrom by contacting Kris here!
Our next public performance will be at Bar Sinister in Hollywood on Saturday, September 9! So far, it's our latest showtime, at 11:45 pm, the first time we've performed in a bar/nightclub (Sorry, Kitsune Taiko members, this one's 21 + over), and the only venue that's offered us Red Bull as part of our backstage amenities...
Our Summer 2006 newsletter is now online! We had to format it in black and white because it was too large as a color file. Hope you enjoy it anyways! Click here to download the Summer 2006 Newsletter. Inside this issue are articles on our Rhythmic Relations production, our Japan tour, work in Las Vegas, and profiles of Maz Baba, Joe Kurihara, Courtney Deguchi, and Teia + Emma Meigneux!
Yes, that was us last night on America's Got Talent. Missed it? Check out the video here! Good luck tonight, At Last on the results show tonight!
Everyone's back in town! Now, to get to work... We have a performance in Baldwin Park on Thursday, collaboration with At Last on Saturday, and then the Tofu Festival on Sunday! You can also check out Bombu Taiko at the Nisei Week Parade on Sunday! Also just posted, a new listing sheet of corporate clients and production companies that TAIKOPROJECT has worked with over the past few years.
The TAIKOPROJECT website just underwent a face-lift of sorts. Click on the links above to see the new header images and updated performance and gallery listings! Meanwhile...Bryan is up in Vancouver for his final residency with Chibi Taiko, funded by the 2010 Legacies Now Initiative, Maz is in Mt. Shasta to perform with his parents at ShastaYama 2006, Courtney's finishing up her summer intensive in Portland, Aya's completing her internship in San Francisco, and Bruno, Yuri, and Jen are holding down the fort back in L.A. Check out photos from our Japan Tour here!
And now, the long-awaited video entitled TAIKOPROJECT: Bruno + Mint. His name is Bruno, and he approved of this video. This one goes right alongside TP Boyz in Dubai in our video library. Enjoy!
The full cast history of TAIKOPROJECT is now online here! Check it out!
We're back from Japan! Whew...that was a lot of travel for a 15-minute performance...but it was a lot of fun. A lot of wet, rainy fun. Pictures coming soon and a video that may just be funnier than the Courtney Dance video...for now, let's just call it the Sleeping Bruno with Mint video. The next TAIKOPROJECT performance is next week at Higashi Honganji's Obon Festival. Also, check out some of the new downloads on our media page.
Greetings from Ishikawa-ken, Japan! Today, the TAIKOPROJECT arrived after about 24 hours of travel by car, plane, Narita Express, Shinkansen, and Asano Taiko bus to participate in the EXTASIA Festival! Check out the BrunoBlog for photos and updates from our trip!
Four photo galleries posted online! More to come, but right now, enjoy the photos by Glenn Kuwata online from our first four-group rehearsal, our tech rehearsals at the Ford, our final group rehearsal before the big show, and...the big show...now we gotta go pack for Japan...
GOOD JOB EVERYONE!! Thank you to everyone who made our first show at the Ford Amphitheatre a fantastic, sold-out house, and a truly fun and energetic show! Photos and videos coming soon....just, right now, we gotta get ready to go to Japan to perform at EXTASIA 2006, but then we'll be back for Higashi Obon...got comments on our show? Post them at our Myspace page!
Check out articles on Rhythmic Relations 2006 in the local Japanese American newspaper--the Rafu Shimpo, in the Cultural News, and in LA Flavorpill.
Five days to Rhythmic Relations 2006...you're not going to want to miss it...
Nine days to Rhythmic Relations 2006...Can you feel it?
New rehearsal videos have been uploaded to the Rhythmic Relations 2006 website. Check out the groups in action as they prepare for the big show! Three weeks away and it's all falling into place...eexxcellllent.
As promised, the first ever TAIKOPROJECT Audition Application is available here! Be sure to also check out the Audition Info Sheet here as well. In the meantime, the latest news is that 700 seats have been sold for Rhythmic Relations 2006! And 5,000 postcards are going out in the mail, so get your seats soon! Also, special thanks to Kenny Endo, as we modeled our application much after the Taiko Center of the Pacific's audition application. On that note, we'd like to congratulate former TAIKOPROJECT member Kelsey "Sam" Furuta for being selected as one of Kenny's 2006 Fellowship awardees! Good luck in Hawaii, Kelse! It's all about Zippy's and the Zip Pack....mmmmm....Zip Pack...
Getting busy...the big show, Rhythmic Relations 2006 is just about a month away! Ticket sales are rolling along with half of the tickets sold and song rehearsals are now in intense show mode! In other news...TAIKOPROJECT is pleased to announce its first Open Auditions, which will take place on July 22. Applications will be posted here next week, but download the Audition Info Sheet here for some of the basic details...
Busy times...but finally had time to post photos to our web galleries! Check out photo albums from the Mazda Dealers Meeting, the Producers' Guild's Celebration of Diversity, and the Long Beach Museum of Art's Children's Cultural Festival. Plans for Rhythmic Relations 2006 are moving at light speed! Bombu Taiko will be debuting two new songs, Kitsune Taiko is debuting one new song and new arrangements and five new members, Yukai Daiko is playing two new arrangements, and TAIKOPROJECT is rearranging four of their songs to debut at the show. Have you gotten your tickets yet?
Performances at the Long Beach Museum of Art and for Mazda went well--getting ready now for a performance tonight for the Producer's Guild of America in Beverly Hills. Artist interviews and jpeg postcards just added to the Rhythmic Relations 2006 website! Ticket sales are rolling along! Two months away from the show and so far we've sold a quarter of the house!!
Tomorrow we head down to San Diego to perform for Mazda's Annual Dealers' Meeting! Then, back to L.A. for our last residency classes at Pt. Fermin Elementary School in San Pedro, and a weekend performance at the Long Beach Museum of Art.
Tonight we perform a free family show at the El Sereno Music Festival at 6:00 pm, sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission! Next up, a busy May performance schedule and preparation for the Ford show...
The Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival has come and gone. Good job Bombu, Kitsune, & TAIKOPROJECT! Our first joint set went smoothly (um...except for our drum miscount in Matsuri), but hey, now we know... Coming up next, TAIKOPROJECT plays a free family concert for the El Sereno Music Festival on Saturday, April 29. Also, check out the new Rhythmic Relations 2006 website! It's just a preliminary site, but we'll be adding more and more to it as we get closer and closer to the big show! Tickets are on sale now!!!
Catch us in a couple weeks at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival! In the meantime, check out new photos from Bombu Taiko's performance at the Los Angeles Marathon XXI and at the Los Angeles Buddhist Church Federation's Hanamatsuri Festival. Also, tickets are now on sale for our "Big! World! Fun!" and "Rhythmic Relations" shows at the Ford Amphitheatre are now on sale!
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