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This week On Ensemble will be attending the Western Arts Alliance Annual Booking Conference.  Here’s our showcase schedule:

Tuesday August 31st : 10:00pm
Wednesday September 1st : 10:00pm
Pacific Room, First Floor, Hyatt Regency Long Beach

We’re represented by Cadence Arts Network at Booth 431.

We’re excited to be returning to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Kelvin’s home turf to perform in the free, outdoor Green Show series, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:15pm. We’ll be performing in the beautiful surroundings of the Festival Courtyard Stage. You can see the whole schedule of free concerts here. The Green Show was one of our favorite performances last year. If you’re in the Ashland area, join us Aug 28!

Our next performance is in Phoenix, AZ at the new Musical Instrument Museum. The Musical Instrument Museum ordered a whole set of Miyoshi taiko and we’re excited to see them at the museum. Our performance is this Saturday the 26th. We have a hands-on demonstration at 11:00am and then a full concert performance at 7:30pm. Tickets are $25-$30 and are available at the Musical Instrument Museum’s website or by calling the box office at: (480) 478-6001.

Maz and Shoji will be performing in the East Village tonight at DROM with some really great guest artists: Yuka Yamamoto, Shanir Blumenkranz, Barbara Merjan and Kaoru Watanabe! Should be a fun performance come check it out if you are in NY.

Saturday June 19th, 9pm
General admission: $10
DROM
85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th)
212 777-1157

Maz and I are headed to New York this month!  First we will performing Tuesday June 15th at Carnegie Hall for the New York premiere of Eric Whitacre’s Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings.  We were lucky enough to work with Eric two years ago when he premiered Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings at the Boston Court Theater in Pasadena.  The New York performance will be the concert version which probably means no elaborate fight to the death angel battle scenes but it’ll be an experience none the less!

Then on Saturday June 19th at 9pm we’ll be performing with at DROM with Kaoru Watanabe (flutes and taiko), Yuka Yamamoto (vocals, ukele), Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) and Barbara Merjan (drums and taiko) as a part of NakaNaka a performance series that Kaoru facilitates.  Should be a lot of fun!

Our next performance is in Tacoma!  We’re performing in the Rialto Theater at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.  We’ll be doing a few educational programs for local schools then our concert performance will be on Friday May 28th at 7:30pm.

If you are in the Seattle/Tacoma help spread the word!  Tickets are $24 and $39 and can be purchased online at the Broadway Center’s website.

Come see us perform for free this Saturday at 11:00am and 12:30pm!  We’re performing with Japanese storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto at the Music Center’s World City series.  This is a great one to bring your kids to!

World City features internationally renowned artists in admission-free performances on select Saturdays at the W.M. Keck Foundation Children’s Amphitheatre at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

All tickets are free and are distributed on Grand Avenue at 2nd Street. Tickets for 11:00am performance distributed beginning at 10:00am. Tickets for 12:30pm performance distributed beginning at 11:00am.

Sam, the director we’ve been working with, has finished “Yamasong” a short animated film based on our track of the same title.  He’s started submitting it to film festivals and it’s already been accepted to the World Music and Independent Film Festival in Washington, DC and the Florida Film Festival.  We’ve also set up a website for the film and will be producing a DVD soon!  We’ll be posting more news about “Yamasong” and where it will be showing soon!