Ticket on sale!!! Live: Taiko Note by Taikonnection Solo and Fusion

For each of the past two concerts, we had about 500 people in the house. Please buy tickets in advance if you do not want to wait in line.
Ticket can be purchased at the box office or from the following web link.

http://thesmith.org/events/live-taiko-note-taikonnection-solo-and-fusion

Theme of Taiko Note / BENEFIT!!

Theme is "solo and fusion".

First, we present different styles of solo Taiko performances. Ryota Kataoka, who previously played for the Zotos events, and Isaku Kageyama, a professional Taiko drummer from Boston, will give solos and duo performances in different styles. Second, we present how Taiko fuses with Jazz. Ryota and Yuko Yamamura, a notable Jazz French Horn player from NYC, perform as a duo called Ajarria. It is one and only duo of Taiko and Jazz French Horn player. Since their release of first CD last year, they have appeared at a lot of musical events in NYC and Japan. Yuko is also a notable composer and is the grand prize winner of 2012 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. At our concert, she will perform the winning song “Rove Over” with Ryota and Marc Wagnon, a great vibraphonist from NYC. At the end of concert, audiences will experiences a harmonic mixture of Taiko, Jazz French horn and vibraphone mix together.

This is also a BENEFIT CONCERT for 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami relief. Last two years, a lot of people have gradually regained their normal life in the affected areas. Although the physical living environment might have been restored,  many of them are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. My mother-in-law is a director of Tohoku Gakuin University Counseling Center, which is located in the center of the affected area, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Despite their own difficulty, she and her team have provided psychological therapy to the local community since the day after the disaster. To support their activity, we will donate a portion of profit from this concert to the counseling center.

Taikonnection concert 2013 "TAIKO NOTE" ~ Featured artists

Taikonnection is not a group of fixed artists. For each concert, different people become a part of Taikonnection. Only common thing is that every one of them get connected with me through Taiko. For TAIKO NOTE, I will have the wonderful people from NYC, Boston and Japan.

Ryota Kataoka ~ Taiko drummer  http://on.fb.me/XMAydF
Isaku Kageyama ~ Taiko drummer http://www.isakukageyama.com
Yuko Yamamura ~ Jazz French Horn player http://www.yukoyamamura.com
Marc Wagnon ~ Vibraphonist/Percussionist http://www.marcwagnon.com

This is one and only concert. March 24, 2013 will be a special day for you!!

Taikonnection 2013 concert TAIKO NOTE ~Solo and Fusion~

Taikonnection is bringing another Japanese Taiko drumming concert to Upstate NY. The theme of the concert is solos and fusion. Taiko drumming is often considered as a group performance. We are going to challenge the preconception and even take it further to fuse Taiko drumming with Jazz. It will be novel, unique, and exciting as usual.

A portion of profit will be donated to Sendai, Miyagi, Japan for the Japan Earthquake relief.


Date: March 24 (SUN), 2013
OPEN 1:30pm START 2:00pm
Adult $12 College $10 Grade 12 under FREE
Ticket will be soon available at Smith Opera House, Geneva NY 315-781-5483

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More details on performers and events will be up shortly. Please stay in touch!!