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Wendy and Lisa have just released a CD of their original score of the TV show “Heroes” and I have an artist credit on the album!  I recorded taiko and throat singing for the show right before season three started.  I followed the show religiously through the first season and a half and but must admit I have no idea what is happening  anymore.

Wendy and Lisa have amazingly successful careers spanning Prince and the Revolution to TV soundtracks, to their own albums as a duo and just self released a new album “White Flags of Winter Chimneys” which sounds fantastic.

Applications are currently being accepted for “Taiko 10″ a free community concert held in the Noguchi Plaza at the JACCC as part of the 2009 North American Taiko Conference.  If you are a member of a taiko group planning on coming to this year’s conference “Taiko 10″ is a great opportunity to share your music with the greater North American taiko communtiy.  Applications are online at the taiko conference website.

We’ve had an amazing response to the Summer Taiko Institute thus far.  We received an overwhelming number of qualitfied applications and are really looking forward to working with a great group of participants from all across North America come August.

The Summer Taiko Institute is also being featured on a new website CreateCulture.org that I think many of you will be interested in.  It’s a social networking site for those interested in the arts and there are ton of listings of interesting events and workshops from New York to Los Angeles.

Today is the official release date for “Ume in the Middle”!  It’s available now at CDBaby.com and on iTunes. We’re also hitting the road to celebrate the release of our new album with up coming performances in Ashland, Tahoe, Placerville and Berkeley.  Next month we’ll be in Eugene and the month after that  we’ll have some Los Angeles performances and perform at the California WorldFest along with this year’s headliners Los Lobos and the Indigo Girls.

Our radio campaign for “Ume in the Middle” kicked off this week and it’s off to a great start.  To see if a station near you is playing “Ume in the Middle” check the list below.  I’ll update this list frequently so if you don’t see you favorite station on the list keep checking back! (more…)