After a quiet April recovering from last month’s shows, I’d like to direct some attention to the events I have coming up in May.
I had a rather unusual weekend with a crew from the Japanese public broadcasting company, the NHK, following me to my shamisen lesson, my English lesson, and even filming me [...]
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[ 15 May 2008; 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. ] NHK Broadcast
There will be a very brief section about my shamisen-playing and composition on the Iwate NHK program, “Hirukko IWATE.” The focus of the program is on ex-pats studying traditional Japanese (especially Iwate) arts.
[ 10 May 2008; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Onikembai (American World), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
Admission: Free
I’ll join Sato Choei and the Choei-Kai shamisen group for an evening of folk-songs from Tsugaru, the Northern Peninsula of Honshu.
As promised, here is a massive post with some images and the pieces from our “Goshiki Sanran” concerts. It was a wonderful experience, although most of my memories are of furiously practicing either in at my house in Japan or in the hotel in Korea. Please forgive a little bit of roughness in the performance.
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