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Browsing Posts published in December, 2007

Merry Christmas!

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Hoping everyone is having a wonderful holiday.
Over the past couple months, I’ve received a number of generous iTunes gift certificates. I hadn’t really used the iTunes store until last summer, but I guess I seem like the kind of guy who deserves more music.
Exploring some of the functions of my account I found this gadget [...]

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Today, I met my senior English Class, and for an end-of-year treat we enjoyed homemade cake and tea. At their request, I also brought in my shamisen and played some folk music for them.
After I finished playing, one of the women said that a poem had just come to her:
あざやかなばちさばきにてアメリカの青年は弾くジョンガラ節を
With deft bachi strikes,
the young American [...]

[ 9 December 2007; 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm. ] Onikembai (American World), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
Admission: Free

I will join Sato Choei and the Choei-Kai shamisen group for an evening of folk-songs from Tsugaru, the Northern Peninsula of Honshu.

[ 2 December 2007; 1:00 am; ] Fukushu Center, Towa, Iwate, Japan

I will join Sato Choei and the Towa Sangenkai for a performance of Jonkara Bushi and Hanakasa Ondo.