08.27.07
Lots of exciting things currently in the works for future TAIKOPROJECT touring and traveling. Stay tuned for updates...
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Order your new TP t-shirt here! We debuted this new taiko player's shirt at the North American Taiko Conference and are now happy to make it available to the taiko public! Download the Order Form and get yours today!
This Sunday, another group of trainees will begin their TP journeys. Stay tuned to see who might be the next to wear those familiar blue tops and black pants...
We're about to head up to the North American Taiko Conference! In other news, we are about to sign with Gary Lindsey Artist Services for North American touring representation. Check out some of their other fantastic artists here!
Higashi Obon has come and gone...always one of TP's favorite times of the year. Thank you Higashi Honganji, for five wonderful years together! Coming up next, the North American Taiko Conference and some other local performances...
TP says goodbye to three-year performing member Courtney Deguchi this week, as she prepares to leave for Japan. Courtney will be participating in the JET Program for a year and perhaps, bringing the Courtney Dance to Japanese schoolchildren in the countryside... Good luck Courtney and keep in touch!
TP 2008 Promo Video now online! Seven years of history in just five minutes...check it out... Also, TP's Myspace Profile page now updated! Come on, be our friend!
Bryan's brother Wynn is touring California in early August with his band Kioku! Check them out if you want to hear their taiko mixed with live laptop electronics and saxophones... Info on their tour is here.
Bryan's back from India...with numerous stories of performing in hot and humid un-air conditioned theaters, primitive theaters with bamboo rigging, eating lentils every day, and rooming with the Moonman. Photos coming soon, in the meantime, check out updated photo galleries from our Spring Tour. Full 2008 Promo Video coming next week! Our next performances are with Bombu Taiko and Kitsune Taiko at the upcoming Higashi Honganji Obon Festival on July 28 & 29 in downtown LA--come on by if you're free!
So far, a nice relaxing summer break...but Bryan is off to India in a few days with Kinnara Taiko and the Arpana Dance Company for a seven-city charity concert tour, and Maz is getting ready for On Ensemble's Summer Concert "Ukiyo." Check out our new teaser video trailer for our 2008 Promo Video...everything you wanted to know about TP in 2 minutes...
Whew...the film shoot is over. Check out a couple new videos posted online. First, our performance (with bad audio recording) from Dynamite USA 2007 from the L.A. Coliseum, Maz and Bryan playing Kenny Endo's Symmetrical Soundscapes as part of last Spring's "Pioneers" piece, and a bootleg video of our performance at the FUSION 2007 Hip Hop Competition where we think it is the first documented performance of taiko and "the worm." Don't get it? Check out the video... Up next, we start new taiko classes in July! Check out the info at the above link!
Just played at the L.A. Coliseum for the DYNAMITE USA Mixed Martial Arts Competition, and currently on set for David Mamet's new film, entitled "Red Belt." Also, just returned from a performance in Arkansas with the inimitable Frank Boehm, and a quick show for the 2007 Hyatt Chefs Conference. And in a few days...some much needed down-time...!
Omiyage Notation (Version 1) is now online! Special thanks to Bombu Taiko member Jeanne Kiyan for working with our own "Alabaster" Jen to develop fantastic written notation for one of TP's signature songs! Click here for the notation!
TAIKOPROJECT is looking for a few good taiko players. Click here for the 2007 Audition Info Sheet and Application!
Information on our upcoming taiko classes for adults and kids is now online here! If you're interested in learning how to play taiko with us, download the info sheet and see if the dates work for you!
This Saturday, Kitsune Taiko performs at the JACCC's Kodomo-no-hi Children's Day festival! The next TP show will be in a couple weeks at the Tao Nightclub in Las Vegas, then workshops for those collegiate taiko hopefuls, and then....in Arkansas. In the meantime, if you want to check out the Intercollegiate Taiko Concert, it's from 3:00 - 6:00 pm on Sunday, May 27 at UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom. After all, it's FREE, and will be emceed by TP's own Yuta and Bryan (but they will not be wearing fundoshi).
Tomorrow Bombu Taiko plays at Centenary Methodist Church's Arigato Bazaar, and then we perform at the Long Beach Museum of Art! Kitsune Taiko also has upcoming performances, and then we give workshops at the big Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational at our favorite school, UCLA...
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