NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY:
August 9, 2025
NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY:
August 9, 2025
Live Performance & Film Projection will be included in Kenny Endo’s “Ma vs. Groove” concert presented at Kennedy Theatre on the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa campus. Celebrating 50 years, Kenny Endo's concert will feature music of the Kabuki theatre (tsuzumi, taiko, shamisen, vocals), jazz (drumset, vibraphone, ukulele, bass, saxophone, flute), and his signature multi-piece taiko kit.
Guest artists include:
Mochizuki Saburo - Kabuki bayashi tsuzumi, taiko
Suzuki Kyosuke - Edo Kotobuki Jishi (lion dance), Edo Bayashi (Tokyo festival music)
Okayasu Kiyora - nagauta shamisen and vocals
Kineya Sakio (Bryson Goda)
Mochizuki Mukon (J.D. Andrade)
Fujima Saeka (Mika Yamazaki - traditional dance)
Noel Okimoto (drums, vibraphone, pandrum)
Dean Taba (bass)
Todd Yukumoto (sax, flute)
Abe Lagrimas Jr. (drums, vibraphone, ukulele)
Free venue parking.
General admission is open seating - first come, first served.
Live Performance & Film Projection will be included in Kenny Endo’s “Ma vs. Groove” concert presented at Kennedy Theatre on the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa campus. Celebrating 50 years, Kenny Endo's concert will feature music of the Kabuki theatre (tsuzumi, taiko, shamisen, vocals), jazz (drumset, vibraphone, ukulele, bass, saxophone, flute), and his signature multi-piece taiko kit.
Guest artists include:
Mochizuki Saburo - Kabuki bayashi tsuzumi, taiko
Suzuki Kyosuke - Edo Kotobuki Jishi (lion dance), Edo Bayashi (Tokyo festival music)
Okayasu Kiyora - nagauta shamisen and vocals
Kineya Sakio (Bryson Goda)
Mochizuki Mukon (J.D. Andrade)
Fujima Saeka (Mika Yamazaki - traditional dance)
Noel Okimoto (drums, vibraphone, pandrum)
Dean Taba (bass)
Todd Yukumoto (sax, flute)
Abe Lagrimas Jr. (drums, vibraphone, ukulele)
Free venue parking.
General admission is open seating - first come, first served.
Live Performance & Film Projection will be included in Kenny Endo’s “Ma vs. Groove” concert presented at Kennedy Theatre on the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa campus. Celebrating 50 years, Kenny Endo's concert will feature music of the Kabuki theatre (tsuzumi, taiko, shamisen, vocals), jazz (drumset, vibraphone, ukulele, bass, saxophone, flute), and his signature multi-piece taiko kit.
Guest artists include:
Mochizuki Saburo - Kabuki bayashi tsuzumi, taiko
Suzuki Kyosuke - Edo Kotobuki Jishi (lion dance), Edo Bayashi (Tokyo festival music)
Okayasu Kiyora - nagauta shamisen and vocals
Kineya Sakio (Bryson Goda)
Mochizuki Mukon (J.D. Andrade)
Fujima Saeka (Mika Yamazaki - traditional dance)
Noel Okimoto (drums, vibraphone, pandrum)
Dean Taba (bass)
Todd Yukumoto (sax, flute)
Abe Lagrimas Jr. (drums, vibraphone, ukulele)
General admission is open seating - first come, first served.
6:30pm
6:30pm
6:30pm
Doors open at Kennedy Theatre
1770 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822
Doors open at Kennedy Theatre
1770 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822
Doors open at Kennedy Theatre
1770 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
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R e n k o n ( r ĕ ŋ ’ k ô ŋ )
Renkon means lotus root in Japanese.
It’s said you can see the future looking through the root passageways.
In many cultures, the lotus symbolizes transformation, rooted in mud, then rising through the water to bloom.
With this central metaphor, our Renkon Project uses music, dance and images to look back in history and forward into the world we are creating now.
R e n k o n ( r ĕ ŋ ’ k ô ŋ ) :
Renkon means lotus root in Japanese.
It’s said you can see the future looking through the root passageways.
In many cultures, the lotus symbolizes transformation, rooted in mud, then rising through the water to bloom.
With this central metaphor,
our Renkon Project uses music, dance and images
to look back in history and forward into the world we are creating now.
R e n k o n ( r ĕ ŋ ’ k ô ŋ )
Renkon means lotus root in Japanese.
It’s said you can see the future looking through the root passageways.
In many cultures, the lotus symbolizes transformation, rooted in mud,
then rising through the water to bloom.
With this central metaphor, our Renkon Project uses music, dance and images
to look back in history and forward into the world we are creating now.