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Halloween Ghosts & Jazz, October 30-31, 2010

August 31st, 2010 by kathy | Comments Off

Mukashi, Mukashi…
A Long, Long Time Ago…

The dead were more important than the living.
This Halloween, find out why.
Dramatic Noh-style performance by Brenda Wong Aoki
With Emmy Award Winning Japanese Jazz composer Mark Izu,
The esteemed Dr. Anthony Brown on multiple percussion and
The Taiko drums of Janet Koike & Kathryn Cabunoc,
Shoko Hikage on Koto and
Sax man Masaru Koga on [...]

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September 18-19, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki performing at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.

September 20-26, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki performing at the International Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, Tennessee.

October 28, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu perform Japanese Ghost Stories for Matcha Night at the Asian Museum, 5-9 PM

October 30, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu perform Japanese Ghost Stories at 142 Throckmorton Theatre.

October 31, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu perform Japanese Ghost Stories at Yoshi's Jazz Club, San Francisco

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