04.29.09
Thank you to Tim for inviting us out to perform at the East West Players 43rd Annual Visionary Awards Dinner! We had a great time performing and hanging out with the Quest Crew guys in the dressing room. Coming up next, catch us in Santa Barbara at the Granada Theatre!
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Whew, yesterday's performance at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival was the hottest performance of the year so far! Coming up next, TP heads up to Santa Barbara to perform at the
Granada Theatre, and also performs at the 43rd Annual East West Players Visionary Awards Dinner!
Come see TP, Bombu Taiko, and Kitsune Taiko this Sunday, April 19 at 2:00 pm at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival! It's free, after all... also coming up in the next couple of weeks will be TP's appearance on MTV's The Phone show, produced by Justin Timberlake! We think we're going to be on the second episode...but we haven't really been told...so we're just going to watch and see...
Next month, we begin a new round of taiko classes for kids! Check out our Youth Programs webpage for all the info on our new classes--registration is currently open and spots are filling up!
TP is pleased to announce that our third DVD will be completed soon and you can pre-order copies of it now! Click here for the RR08 DVD Order Form to order our new DVD! The DVD primarily features footage from last year's sold-out performance at the Ford Amphitheatre featuring TAIKOPROJECT, Bombu Taiko, Kitsune Taiko, and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo, but also contains footage from TP's recent performances at the Japan America Theatre, in Hawaii, and in Mexico. Reserve your copy today!
TP has made it back home to LA! The final trip odometer count for the tour is 8,097 miles. Thank you to everyone who helped make the tour possible and who housed, fed, and took care of us on the road--we couldn't have done it without you all. Hope to see many of you again at the 2009 North American Taiko Conference in August, in Los Angeles! Next up for TP, the group heads to Bishop, California, for a short educational residency sponsored by the Inyo Arts Council, next weekend.
Second to last day of the tour! TP heads to Phoenix, Arizona, to workshop with the rising taiko stars of Kyo Rei Taiko Kai. Special thanks as always to our Arizona taiko family, the Tangs, and to Chuck and Eugene!
TP heads out to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for workshops with Smokin' Bachi Taiko! Thank you Smokin' Bachi, and especially Jon and Skyler for housing us up in El Dorado! See you guys at the Taiko Conference...
TP facilitates workshops for UT Austin Gindaiko and Austin Taiko. Thank you to Angie Ahlgren for coordinating the workshops!
TP heads to Texas next for workshops in Austin. We're in the final leg of our longest tour to date--
Sold-out show at the Buckman Center in Memphis, Tennessee! Thank you to Cindi Younker and the Buckman team for bringing us out to Memphis!
Full house at the Capitol Theatre in Bowling Green, Kentucky! Thanks Mina and Dr. Lee for bringing us out to Kentucky!
TP workshops with St. Louis Osuwa Taiko in Missouri! Thanks to Andrew and Jaci for coordinating the workshops and hope to see you again soon!
Tonight's show at the Rose-Hulman Institute's Hatfield Hall is SOLD OUT! Thanks Bunny and Greg for all your work to make the show a success!
TP is in Terre Haute, Indiana! Check out the article about our outreach activity at the Booker T. Washington Community Center in the Indiana Tribune-Star!
TP heads to North Central Ohio to workshop with Icho Daiko and Oberlin College Taiko! Thank you to Ikuko Kurasawa for arranging everything for the workshops, to Steve Frank at Icho Daiko, Pastor Nozomi Ikuta, Roy & Aiko Ebihara, Marell, and of course, Galen Rodgers for all their hospitality and help during our short stay in Ohio!
Yesterday's performance at the Stamford Center for the Arts was fantastic! Thank you to all the taiko groups who came out--Soh Daiko, Odaiko New England, and of course, O-Tatsu Taiko, just to name a few. Special thanks to Sandra Shen for coordinating our first production out here in Connecticut! Also, check out the new TP Tour Blog, and follow our adventures on the road...
Yesterday's performance at the Stamford Center for the Arts was fantastic! Thank you to all the taiko groups who came out--Soh Daiko, Odaiko New England, and of course, O-Tatsu Taiko, just to name a few. Special thanks to Sandra Shen for coordinating our first production out here in Connecticut! Also, check out the new TP Tour Blog, and follow our adventures on the road...
Yesterday's show at the Annenberg Center was a great success! Good sized house, really warm reception, and a good tech staff (which always makes things easier). Thanks to June and Gayle for all their work to bring us out and special thanks to Gayle, Gary, Kathy, and Gregor for housing us for our stay! Tonight, we perform in Stamford, Connecticut!
Tonight we perform at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia! Come on by if you're around town!
This week, TP worked with Philadelphia's Kyo Daiko several times, working on refining their version of "Omiyage" for a big performance in April. After Bombu and Kitsune in LA, they are probably the group we have workshopped "Omiyage" with the most!
School outreach day-today, TP performed for 300 schoolchildren at the Church of the Holy Redeemer, and then gave a beginner's workshop at the Asian Arts Initiative, both led by Jen and Yuri-good job guys!
Check out the latest news article about TP in the Philadelphia City News! Tickets for our Philadelphia show at the Annenberg Center and our show at the Stamford Center for the Arts are still available, come on by if you're in town! Also, you can check out a low-resolution video of our performance at the 81st Academy Awards here! Thank you to Fatima Robinson and John Robert Wood for all their work to create the Best Song production!
Today, TP splits in two and leads workshops in Philadelphia and Long Island for Ryu Shu Taiko, Taiko Tides, and Kyo Daiko. Thank you to Gerry Senese for use of his fantastic dojo, and thank you to Gayle Isa and the Asian Arts Initiative, and June O'Neill for their work to bring us to Philly!
TP makes its New York debut in a sold-out concert at the Wang Center at Stony Brook University. Thank you to Sunita and Joan for all your work to bring us out to Stony Brook. Additional thanks to all the Taiko Tides folks, especially Joe, Eva, Boro, and Kaya!
We made it to New York! 2,800 miles logged in over four days of driving through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey! Whew!
L.A. to New York in four days? The longest TP road trip begins today...
Today, TP plays in the 81st Annual Academy Awards! We are performing in a musical medley for Best Song featuring "O-Saya" and "Jai-ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, and "Down to Earth" from the movie Wall-E. Also performing in the medley are composer/singer A.R. Rahman and John Legend.
Kaoru Watanabe leads a Miyake Daiko workshop with Bombu Taiko today at Higashi Honganji! Welcome Kaoru!
TP has been cast to perform at the 81st Annual Academy Awards! Tune in on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time/8:00 Eastern Time and watch for us when they present the "Best Song" category! And then, the next day, we pack up and start driving over to New York from Los Angeles...
Yuri and Jen are back from Greece! Welcome back! Now let's get ready to go back on the road...
A big thank you to Maureen Levinson for bringing us out to the St. Martin of Tours school for their cultural awareness series! Great school, great kids, and great parents! What more could you need? Thank you again and we look forward to performing for you all again soon!
TP is proud to present our new Youth Programs website! We are expanding our youth classes starting in May, check out our offerings and spread the word!
Two weeks until we go on our longest tour ever, with performances and workshops in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee!
Thank you to Kevin and Christine from Tick Tock Productions for bringing us out for the shoot of MTV's new reality show, "The Phone"! Our episode will air in late April, check it out!
Plans for our Spring 2009 tour are rolling along...come on out and see us if you're free! TP has also just received a new Odaiko stand from master craftsman Mark Miyoshi! His work is truly beautiful! Thanks Mark!
In about a month, TP embarks on their longest tour ever! If you're on the East Coast or in the Midwest, come on out and see us! In other news, we are putting together our third DVD, with footage from "Rhythmic Relations 2008," our "(re)generation" show in 2007, and our other adventures over the last two years. It's looking like it'll be our best DVD yet! Stay tuned for updates on its release date...
If you didn't catch our performance on KCET on Christmas Eve, check it out here! In other news, happy birthday to TP Musical Director Maz, who turns 31 today! Happy New Year to you all and stay tuned for what looks to be an exciting year for TP!
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