I'm Performing at Yoshi's!!

An Afternoon of Japanese Ghost Stories and Jazz at Yoshi's Halloween Weekend
Nov. 1, 2009 2PM One Performance Only!

Sunday 2:00 pm Matinee
$5 Kids (10 to 17 years)
$15 Adult (With Kid)
$20 Adult (General)

Please buy tickets in advance at: http://sfyoshis2.inticketing.com/events

The haunting eloquence of Brenda Wong Aoki's ghost stories masterfully performed in concert with Asian Jazz pioneer composer Mark Izu, featuring the thunder drums of Janet Koike & Kathryn Cabunoc of Maze Daiko, Anthony Brown on multiple percussion and Shoko Hikage on Koto. A record release concert for Legend of Morning Glory (a Kabuki Taiko Oratorio).

“Japanese Ghost Stories and Jazz” is a performance of two ancient Japanese ghost stories, re-written and performed from a modern American perspective by acclaimed contemporary solo performance artist and writer Brenda Wong Aoki, in concert with original music from Emmy award-winning jazz composer Mark Izu. This unique contemporary show integrates Japanese theatrical techniques, story, visual motifs and musical instruments like taiko drumming and the koto. Both artists are widely known for their groundbreaking work that combines non-Western theatrical performance jazz and spoken word traditions. This is a one-time only Halloween weekend performance that the whole family (with children ages 10 and up) will enjoy!


" Mark Izu's music is a great gift to the jazz tradition, to its on going transformation and revitalization into energetic and unpredictable new directions" - Downbeat Magazine

"...Aoki's remarkable talents as a performer and storyteller - talents which include an impressive synthesis of modern and traditional Japanese and American theatrical techniques of dance, mime, movement, song and voice placement..." Hollywood Drama-Logue