08.29.08
Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Levitt Pavilion with the Masanga Marimba Ensemble! Special thanks to Prof. Ric Alviso, the leader of Masanga for bringing his group to share the stage with us last night! And additional thanks to TP and Masanga member Joel Mankey, who helped facilitate the collaborations between the two groups! Check out video of our rehearsal here! Coming up next, TP heads down south to Mexico for the Festival Internacional Chihuahua!
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New videos posted onto our media page. Check them out to see what we've been up to this past summer! Our last show for the summer is coming up on Aug. 28, a free concert at the Levitt Pavilion with the Masanga Marimba Ensemble! Come on by to see the first meeting of Zimbabwean marimba music with Japanese American taiko drumming!
Thank you to all the photographers who took fantastic photos during our Ford show (without flashes!) Check out the Rhythmic Relations page to see all the photos of our ground-breaking show last month with Tanaka-sensei and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo! In other news, the RedBelt DVD comes out August 26! Check it out if you didn't have a chance to catch it in the theatres...
The OC Fair is done! Thank you to Dan Gaines and everyone at the Fair for bringing us out to perform this year! We had a great time and thank you for all your work! Up next....TP has a free small performance at the Japanese American National Museum and then a big free performance with the Masanga Marimba Ensemble at the Levitt Pavilion in Macarthur Park at the end of August!
Finally had time to upload some press articles from the last couple of months! Check out recent articles on TP here from Nikkan San, the Hawaii Tribune Herald, the Rafu Shimpo, the Big Island Weekly, and the OC Daily Pilot Article. Four more days left to catch us at the OC Fair!
There's one more week to catch us at the Orange County Fair! Swing on by if you're in the area, or you can check out the
OC Daily Pilot Article here, or their video feature on TP here! And if that's not enough video for you, we've uploaded some preview footage of Rhythmic Relations rehearsal here! This fall, we start working on our next major DVD project, which is shaping up to be our best one yet!
One of our performers, Aya Ino is heading to Japan to participate in the JET Educational program for a year! Good luck Aya and thanks for all the work and energy you have put into making TP what it is today!
We are in full swing in the middle of our 19-day performance run at the Orange County Fair! Yuri has even started a list of all the various foods we've been eating at the fair every day! Check out local photographer Jon Haverstick's photos from the performances, and if you're around Costa Mesa, come on by! Or, this weekend, you can also find us at the Higashi Honganji Obon Festival!
Rhythmic Relations 2008 is over! Check out the RR08 Site for links to photos, reviews, and more! Today, we start our run at the Orange County Fair, so if you're in town, come on down! We are performing on the Plaza Arts Stage nightly at 6:15 and 8:15 pm!
Tomorrow is Rhythmic Relations 2008!! Check out the TAIKOPROJECT Article from Nikkan San (if you can read Japanese), and check out Jason and Tomomi on Orange County tv news programs promoting the opening of TP's run at the OC Fair! Tanaka-sensei and SF Taiko Dojo arrive in a few hours and then we rehearse for tomorrow's gigantic show...hope to see you there!!!
Rhythmic Relations 2008 is coming up in two days!! Today Maz and Bryan were interviewed on KPFK 90.7's "Global Village" with John Schneider and there are interviews coming out in Nikkan San and the Rafu Shimpo. This morning, TP was also on Primera Edicion on Univision 34, and tomorrow you can catch TP on several morning news programs in Orange County, promoting the OC Fair, which opens Friday! There's still just a few more tickets left for Saturday night's show, and tickets are still available for Sunday's show! Hope to see you there!
Rhythmic Relations 2008 is coming up next weekend, July 12 & 13!!! Got your tickets yet? Get your tickets now before the shows sell out and join us for a fantastic night of taiko underneath the stars at the beautiful John Anson Ford Amphitheatre! Saturday night's show is almost sold out, and there are still good seats available for Sunday's show. We guarantee you this will be a once-in-a-lifetime show, with TAIKOPROJECT and the first American taiko group, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, sharing the stage for the first time together! Don't miss it!
Our Hawaii Tour has come to an end! What an amazing trip--first, a fantastic show with Zenshin Daiko in Kahului, Maui, then two sold-out shows with Hilo Taishoji Taiko at the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center, and then a sold-out show at the beautiful Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu with the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble! Thank you to all of the wonderful people who made this tour happen, to name just a few--Tony and Val Jones, the Cua Family, Jan Higashi, the Japanese Community Association of Hawaii, Kenny & Chizuko Endo, Eric Chang, Aunty Gayle, Yuta Kato--who helped out greatly for our Honolulu and Maui shows, and Bryan's parents, who hosted all nine performers for four days in Hilo! Stay tuned for a full list of thank yous from our first-ever Hawaii Tour, as well as photos, and videos from each show, such as "Omiyage" collaborations with Kenny Endo and Zenshin Daiko, and encore collaboration with Hilo Taishoji Taiko!
TP's making news in Hawaii! Check out press interviews in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the Maui News, and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald!
Check out TP on Hawaii's KGMB News in a short clip to promote the Honolulu Taiko Fest '08!
Today, half of TP leaves for Hawaii for a ten-day, four-performance, three-island tour. The other half is staying at home in LA to work on plans for our upcoming summer shows at the Orange County Fair, and for Rhythmic Relations 2008!! Much to do, much to do...
Getting ready for our first-ever Hawaii Tour! We leave Thursday for a three-island tour, performing with Zenshin Daiko in Maui, Taishoji Taiko in Hilo, and the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble in Honolulu! If you know anyone in Hawaii, let 'em know!
Maz and Bryan head up to San Francisco to workshop collaborative material with Tanaka-sensei and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo for our upcoming show Rhythmic Relations 2008, on July 12 & 13! Get your tickets today for what will be Southern California's biggest and best taiko show of the year! The encore itself, will be worth the ticket price alone! What is it? You'll have to come to see what we mean!
Our big show at LACMA was a great success! Thank you to Mitch Glickman for bringing us out to the museum and we look forward to working with you again!
Two days to our big show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art! Swing on by if you want to check out some of our newest members in their first big show, including Jason's fundoshi debut, the L.A. premiere of Maz's "Lava Cool," and Yumi & Adrienne's debut in "Home."
Ten days to our big show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 12! We are the last performance of their Spring Music Series, which included performers such as Philip Glass and Anoushka Shankar. Talk about setting the bar high. We best bring it. Hope to see you there!
Special thanks to Ohashi-san, Iwai-san, and Teranishi-san for bringing us out to the SAMPE 2008 Convention in Long Beach! Coming up next, our debut performance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Bing Theater on June 12, at 8 pm! Hope to see you there!
Just saw "RedBelt"! We're actually in quite a bit of the final scene, so check it out! This weekend you can also catch Kitsune Taiko at the Nikkei Community Day in Little Tokyo at 12:30 pm, and TAIKOPROJECT at the Southern California Percussion Festival at the Nechita Center in Orange at 7:30 pm, both on Saturday. Also, don't forget to check out Kanye West's concert production "Glow in the Dark," which is touring nationally this Spring and features TAIKOPROJECT on several of his big hits such as "Stronger," "Gold Digger," and "Touch the Sky." And finally, if you want to check out the latest incarnation of our "(re)generation" production, get your tickets now for our debut performance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Theater on June 12, at 8 pm!
The movie "RedBelt," directed by David Mamet comes out today in LA and New York! We shot a scene for the movie last summer in Long Beach. Did we make it into the final cut? We don't know, we gotta go see it and see for ourselves. But if you go see it, let us know!
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