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Kishi Bashi at the Skirball Cultural Center on August 23, 2018. Striding onto the Skirball Cultural Center’s Sunset Concert stage before a full house ...
Natsukashii. That is the Japanese word that best expresses the feeling I get whenever I hear a song from “back in the day” – which, by ...
Read Part 1 >> Recently, I was lucky enough to travel to Estes Park to visit the beautiful mountain campus of Eagle Rock School and meet ...
Meghan Tokunaga-Scanlon is an energetic and passionate music educator, who leads music, theatre, and dance programming at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center in ...
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The Pure Nikkei Society There is a music event where Nikkei musicians deal with the concept, “Enrich the world with Latin and Okinawan fusion”, and ...
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My friends (and anyone who follows my social media “food porn” photos) know that I’m a snob about Japanese food. I have strong opinions ...
ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Nov. 16, 2017, I had a date with my cousin, Diane, to see Kuniko Fukushima sing and play the piano at the ...
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Read Part 1 >> What does the band play specifically? Mainly swing, Glen Miller type stuff. Then I was asked to direct this youth band in ...
If you ever wanted to get a sense of what life actually felt like in camp, look no further than this contraband film from the ...
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Little Tokyo, 1989 One night, Mario Martinez, a struggling musician from Boyle Heights, was sitting in a booth at the Atomic Café in Little Tokyo ...
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