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We’re performing a FREE concert this Saturday August 27th at 7:00pm presented by the Canta Clarita Performing Arts Center at Richard Rioux Park!  Come check it out if you are in the area!

On Ensemble is headed to the North American Taiko Conference this weekend! All four of us will be leading workshops and discussion sessions and Kris is helping organize the conference as the assistant conference organizer. Should be a great weekend of taiko!

InventiOn 2011, On Ensemble’s year-long focus on creativity, is going swimmingly. Settling down from the craziness of Cerritos Center in March we’ve been in town for most of April and May, with smaller school shows and workshops here and there. It’s a bit of down-time before things get busy again in the summer and toward the end of the year. Our program of Creative Rehearsals, empowered by the financial support of the FoundatiOn Team, has been a great success. Kelvin comes to town next week for more exploration. Very exciting!

Graphation Film Festival No. 1 Trailers from Graphation on Vimeo.

Yamasong is screening at the Graphation Film Festival at 8:00pm on Thursday March 16th at the Hive Gallery! There will be a Q/A panel with myself and Sam after the screen then a showing of one of the Jim Henson masterpieces that inspired Yamasong, The Dark Crystal!

Graphation @ the Hive
Thursday, March 17th, 8:00pm
The Hive Gallery and Studios
729 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA

Our TAIKO 2.0 collaboration with Russel Baba, Jeanne Mercer, Kaoru Watanabe and Patrick Graham at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts is coming Saturday March 12th at 8pm!  Russel, Jeanne, Kaoru and Patrick are four of our favorite artists to work with.  We’ve been working on new material and it’s going to be one of best concerts to date!  We’ve also added another special guest artist Kodo’s principal dancer Chieko Kojima.  Chieko is on tour this month in the US and we were able to work out her schedule to have her join us for a special performance on the Cerritos stage.  Tickets are on sale now and are available through the Cerritos Center box office.

TAIKO 2.0
On Ensemble with guest artists: Russel Baba, Jeanne Mercer, Kaoru Watanabe, Patrick Graham and Chieko Kojima
Saturday March 12th, 8:00pm
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
12700 Center Court Drive
Cerritos, CA  90703
Tickets $61/$49/$37
Box Office:  (800) 300-4345

This will be our third time presenting a collaborative concert at the Cerritos Center.  Our last concert was with Kenny Endo and you can read a review of the concert at CerritosInk blog.

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Current weather: 74F, balmy!
Miles driven: 7465
Workshops completed (18 scheduled): 18
Performances completed (9 scheduled): 9
Pushups and squats completed (regimen at every gas stop): 6471
Num curry meals eaten: 31

Every other year or so we do a cross country workshop tour on our way to the APAP conference.  This year we have a number of workshops with taiko groups from Las Vegas to Montreal to Fort Wayne and more are being finalized now.  If you are a taiko group interested in a workshop from us on our way to NY in January get in touch with us soon.

Once we get out to New York we’ll be doing two showcases at the APAP|NYC conference.  After New York we’re heading up to Montreal for a concert with our good friend frequent collaborator and musical soul mate Patrick Graham at Sala Rossa.  Then it’s all the way back to Idaho for a residency program and performance at the Sun Valley Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets for our big performance at the Cerritos Center have gone on sale!  This year our guest artist include Russel Baba and Jeanne Mercer co-founders of Shasta Taiko, the extraodinary flutist Kaoru Watanabe and incredible multi percussionist Patrick Graham.  In 2007 we collaborated with the Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble, then last year we collaborated Kenny Endo for a return engagement.  Both performances were reviewed nicely and sold out so get your tickets early!

Taiko 2.0
On Ensemble with special guests
Saturday March 12, 2011, 8:00pm
Tickets:  $37/$49/$61
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts