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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

Yamasong our short film collaboration with director Sam Koji Hale will be screening this Saturday at the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry’s “Evening of Puppet Film Shorts”.

Saturday Sept. 25th, 7 pm
Bob Baker’s Marionette Theater
1345 West 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Suggested Donation: $5 Members, $10 Non-Members, Parking $3.

Yamasong the short film based on our track of the same name has just won the award for Best Fantasy Short film at the Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival!  Then to top it off it took home the award for Best Animated Film!  Congratulations Sam on the amazing work!

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!