On Ensemble : Masato Baba, Kristofer Bergstrom, Shoji Kameda and Kelvin Underwood

Last chance to vote for Jon Goldman

shoji — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:42:47 +0000

There are only three more days till the end of the Netflix Find Your Voice competition and Jon Goldman’s film: Paul Sussman’s Eleven-Step Guide to Self-Actualization is right on the verge or making it to the next round. If you haven’t voted for his film please vote! Jon is using a track that we did with Patrick Graham for his entry and having his film win would be fantastic for us and for Jon!

Vote here: http://www.netflixfindyourvoice.com/

OnEnsemble.org email up and running… for good?

kris — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:10:12 +0000

I’ve transferred our email management to google hosted for the time being. Email sent to me or shoji at OnEnsemble.org should make it through with no problems. Sorry about the downtime!

OnEnsemble.org email down again. Argh!

kris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:12:34 +0000

I’m very sorry to say it appears the problems with the email server are back, and significant. I can’t get the machine to turn on at all. This is actually not such a bad thing — a mechanical failure is usually pretty easy to fix — but it will take me a bit of time to get things back up and running.

My sincere apologies for the inconvenience! If you need any of us urgently, please call my cell phone - 310-350-8825.

Next up: Big!World!Fun!

shoji — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:11:25 +0000

If you have young kids and live in Los Angeles this next performance is for you! We’ll be performing at the Ford Amphitheatre’s Big!World!Fun! Family series Saturday July 11th at 10:ooam. Children are FREE (reservations required) and adults are only $5. Get your tickets and reservations at the Ford Amphitheatre’s website.

The Green Show

shoji — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:09:36 +0000

We had a great performance at the Green Show today! Thanks to Claudia, Jess and all the Green Show volunteers. It was great being back in Ashland and it’s starting to feel like a second home now that Kelvin is living there and we find ourselves performing there for the second time in two months. We even made the Green Show poster complete with a nice shot of the LA skyline.

We’ll be spending the next couple of days in Mt. Shasta getting some creative rehearsal time in with Kelvin before we head back down to Los Angeles. More later!

Oregon Bach Festival

shoji — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:14:15 +0000

We had a great sold-out performance tonight at the Oregon Bach Festival. Our stay in Eugene has been fantastic and we’d like to thank John Evans, Michael Anderson and the OBF staff for bringing us to their amazing festival. We’d also like to thank the great theater and sound crew at the Hult Center for making our concert go so smoothly. Also a huge thank you goes our to our lighting designer Eileen Cooley for all of her artistry and work. And last but definitely not least thank you to the members of Portland Taiko who helped us pack up and load out!

Tomorrow we head down to Ashland for a performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show. More later!

Oregon Bach Festival

shoji — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:54:25 +0000

We are currently in the beautiful city of Eugene OR for the Oregon Bach Festival. Yesterday we performed at the opening of On the Road: Two Visions of the Tokaido at the University of Oregon’s Jordon Schnitzer Museum. We spent today in the theater preparing for tomorrow’s concert and got a nice write up in the Eugene Register-Guard.

Tonight we’re going to watch Helmuth Rilling conduct a performance of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation at the Oregon Bach Festival. Should be great concert!

OnEnsemble.org email back up

kris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:05:01 +0000

Well, I’m not sure what the problem was, but a reboot has fixed our previous email issue. Sorry for the inconvenience!

OnEnsemble.org email currently down

kris — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:17:55 +0000

Argh! The On Ensemble email server seems to be down. Messages sent to OnEnsemble.org are being bounced back. We’re on tour at the moment so I can’t reboot the machine. We get home on July 3rd so I’ll fix it then.

In the meantime, if you need to contact us, please call me at 310-350-8825. My apologies for the inconvenience!

Warehouse

maz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:49:31 +0000

Bryan from TAIKOPROJECT has been obsessed with finding a warehouse for TAIKOPROJECT’s new home. We’re close. This might be it!

It’s a great space. It will take a bit of work to fix the place up to our satisfaction, but once it’s finished, this will be a great space to be in. Practices, rehearsals, small concerts, recordings, retreats… this will be a great resource! And hopefully On can help pitch in to use it too… =)

A taiko group always dreams of having a nice, big, open space. I hope this works out.