{"id":1523,"date":"2017-08-24T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napost.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T19:18:55","slug":"bellevue-world-taiko-festival-october-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/bellevue-world-taiko-festival-october-6-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue World TAIKO Festival on October 6 &#038; 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"il\">Japan<\/span>\u00a0Creative Arts and the School of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">TAIKO presents\u00a0the third annual &#8221; Bellevue World\u00a0TAIKO\u00a0Festival&#8221; which sold out event with gathering audience from all over the US in past events. Audiences can enjoy the fusion of various rhythm of the\u00a0DRUMS\u00a0which centered\u00a0Japanese\u00a0Taiko\u00a0Drums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year,\u00a0Kenny Endo is invited as a special guest.\u00a0Kenny Endo is well known as the leading person of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0world in US. He has an honorable achievement, being the first foreigner who became a Natori (stage name and masters license) in hogaku hayashi(classical\u00a0<span class=\"il\">drumming<\/span>).\u3000Also, he has studied various\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Drumming<\/span>\u00a0styles from masters and also stayed in\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Japan<\/span>for more than ten years for studying and performing\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">drums<\/span>\u00a0in his younger era.<\/p>\n<p>In addition of the Kenny&#8217;s beautiful numbers, the traditional\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0numbers will performed as collaboration by Kenny and local professional\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0group CHIKIRI and also Cascades\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Drummers<\/span>\u00a0( A group made in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of The School of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">TAIKO<\/span>. ) with full of human power &amp; spirits. Furthremore another guest performer Ian Dobson who is famous as Seattle based percussionist will create new passion with\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Drummers<\/span>\u00a0on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences are strongly recommended to come to the venue on the time of doors open. The festival will have some lectures including the rare opportunity to learn the &#8220;History of<span class=\"il\">TAIKO<\/span>\u00a0in US&#8221; which will be lectured by Stan Shikuma who is the leading person of the Northwest area\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0world more than 35 years and also you will enjoy the unique knoridgement of Kimono by Mariko Kayama, founder of Kimono Art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1525\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1525 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/napost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/soundsoftaiko1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Tero Patana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1526 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/napost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/soundsoftaiko2-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Sounds of Taiko\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy; Marcia Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>INFORMATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"m_4806212814449879750mc-toc-title\"><strong>Date :\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161430\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday, October 6, 2017 &amp; Saturday, October 7, 2017<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Place :<\/strong>\u00a0Carlson Theatre @ Bellevue College<br \/>\n3000 Landerholm Circle SE \u00a0 Bellevue, WA 98007<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time schedule\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161431\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday, October 6, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nOpen \u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161432\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:30 pm<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nLecture Start \u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161433\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:55 pm<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"il\">Concert<\/span>\u00a0Start \u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161434\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:30 pm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161435\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday, October 7, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nOpen\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161436\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3:30 pm<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nLecture Start \u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161437\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3:55 pm<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"il\">Concert<\/span>\u00a0Start \u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2035161438\"><span class=\"aQJ\">4:30 pm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ticket Price<\/strong><br \/>\nGeneral \u00a0 $33<br \/>\nKids &amp; Students \u00a0$22<br \/>\n*\u00a0Kids under 18 years old. \u00a0College Students under 24 years old or under\u00a0( Required Students ID )<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_4806212814449879750mc-toc-title\"><strong>Performers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Special guest : Kenny Endo<\/strong><br \/>\nIan Dobson<br \/>\nCHIKIRI<br \/>\nCascades\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Taiko<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Drummers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtaikofestival.org\">:\u00a0www.worldtaikofestival.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u00a0Creative Arts and the School of\u00a0TAIKO presents\u00a0the third annual &#8221; Bellevue World\u00a0TAIKO\u00a0Festival&#8221; which sold out event with gathering audience from all over the US in past events. Audiences can enjoy the fusion of various rhythm of the\u00a0DRUMS\u00a0which centered\u00a0Japanese\u00a0Taiko\u00a0Drums. This year,\u00a0Kenny Endo is invited as a special guest.\u00a0Kenny Endo is well known as the leading person of\u00a0Taiko\u00a0world in US. He has an honorable achievement, being the first foreigner who became a Natori (stage name and masters license) in hogaku hayashi(classical\u00a0drumming).\u3000Also, he has studied various\u00a0Taiko\u00a0Drumming\u00a0styles from masters and also stayed in\u00a0Japanfor more than ten years for studying and performing\u00a0Taiko\u00a0drums\u00a0in his younger era. In addition of the Kenny&#8217;s beautiful numbers, the traditional\u00a0Taiko\u00a0numbers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":429,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napost.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}