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Recent book reviews — February 2015
When Clothes Become Fashion — Art Power — Brioni — This Changes Everything — Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System — Title: When Clothes Become Fashion — Design and Innovation...
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Art Core in Casper Wyoming
After our performance in Palmer Lake, CO we hit the road to Casper Wyoming. Again I have to give a shout out to Aiko for the Starbucks cards they were put to good use! Once we got to Casper we had a...
View ArticleNew Video : Verdugo Hills
In the next few weeks we’ll be posting new videos! The fist sets of videos comes from our friend and filmmaker Ian Mora. We grew up playing taiko with Ian and he came to our Taiko Heroes concert last...
View ArticleNew Video: Lion Chant
Hi all. A new video has been posted from the Taiko Heroes concert series! Lion Chant, composed by Shoji. I’d like to personally thank my childhood best friend, Ian Mora, who filmed and put these...
View ArticleMinneapolis and Chicago Update
I spent the last week in Minneapolis working with Mu Daiko and then Chicago working with Ho Etsu Taiko. Last year Ho Etsu Taiko was the first group I taught Lion Chant to outside of On Ensemble....
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Yamasong Soundtrack
Back in 2010 a good friend and super talented puppet filmmaker Sam Koji Hale put together a short film for our track ‘Yamasong’ off of the album ‘Ume in the Middle’. Ume in the Middle by On Ensemble...
View ArticleSummer Taiko Madness!
I’ve finally updated the calendar with our summer of crazy taiko madness! I’ll be teaching at the North American Taiko Conference this coming weekend then will be teaching and performing at the UK...
View ArticleNATC 2015
Tomorrow I’m headed to Las Vegas for the 2015 North American Taiko Conference! I’ll be teaching two workshops at the conference and leading a performance for a group of kaDON subscribers from around...
View ArticleTwo New Videos from Taiko Heroes!
Ian has added two more videos from the Taiko Heroes concert! The first is an On Ensemble standard, “After Rain”. I’m praying for rain right now as I listen to it. The second, “June”, is by our own...
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UK Taiko Festival Awesomeness
What an epic weekend of amazing taiko awesomeness! First of all I’d like to thank Jonathan, Lucy and all of the volunteers from Kagemusha and Tano Taiko that put so much work into making the festival a...
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On Ensemble at Descanso Gardens
We have a really great family friendly performance at Descanso Gardens this week! It’s part of the Descanso Garden’s World Rhythm series and we’ll be the last performance of this great summer series....
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Next Up: Rotations with Ho Etsu Taiko
We are super excited about our upcoming collaborative concert series ‘Rotations’ with Ho Etsu Taiko on October 3rd and 4th at Chicago’s amazing Anthenaeum Theatre. I’ve been working with Ho Etsu Taiko...
View ArticleNew Videos
Finally got the videos from our February concert at the Aratani Theater with Kaoru Watanabe and Sumie Kaneko uploaded!
View ArticleRotations Behind the Scenes
Take a sneak peep behind the scenes of our upcoming collaborative concert with Ho Etsu Taiko in Chicago. I’ve been working with Ho Etsu for the past year and half and it’s been really rewarding to...
View ArticleChicago/Fort Wayne/Lakewood Tour Recap
Where to start. I really meant to be doing tour updates along the way but neglected to so get ready for the big Chicago/Fort Wayne/Lakewood tour recap! The tour started with me loading up the trailer...
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Taiko Groove : On Ensemble and Mu Daiko
We are very excited about heading to Minneapolis for a collaborative series of concerts with Mu Daiko called Taiko Groove! Way back in 2003 Mu Daiko brought us out to Minneapolis for the first time...
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On Ensemble in St. Louis
We are headed to St. Louis for a weekend of workshops and performance with St. Louis Osuwa Taiko. The weekend starts off with a performance at the Focal Point with St. Louis Osuwa Taiko. Then they are...
View ArticleUp Next: Taiko Heroes 2
It’s time for our annual concert series at the Miles Memorial Playhouse! Taiko Heroes is a chance for us to put together new material and gather friends and family to have one last concert before the...
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On Ensemble at APAP 2016
ON ENSEMBLE Established in 2002 On Ensemble is one of the most respected ensembles in the taiko (Japanese drumming) world. Led by childhood friends Shoji Kameda and Masato (Maz) Baba, On Ensemble is...
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On Ensemble performing at SummerSounds at the Hollywood Bowl
Next week we’ll be performing at the Hollywood Bowl as a part of LAPhil’s SummerSounds. SummerSounds is a fun-filled four week series of lively concerts, combined with art workshops. Each concert is...
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