This Halloween, get spooked by dramatic and haunting Japanese ghost tales performed by Brenda Wong Aoki with Emmy Award-winning Jazz composer Mark Izu, the taiko drums of Janet Koike & Kathryn Cabunoc, Anthony Brown on multiple percussion, Shoko Hikage on Koto, and Mas Koga on Saxophone and Shakuhachi.
In Japanese Noh theatre, the dead are more important than the living because the actions of the dead brought us to where we are today. Ghosts are usually upset females who won't go peacefully into the night. The Japanese believe ghosts are people who have died with an unpaid debt. An unpaid debt is passed down for generations and grows like a snowball into an avalanche. Whole families, villages, countries live under the dark cloud of an unpaid debt, because by then, nobody knows how to fix it.
Storytellers help people remember the past, and ghost stories remind us that what remains after we are dead are the consequences of our actions.
Our first show is this Thursday October 28th for the Asian Art Museum's "Matcha" series. We'll be performing 3 sets beginning at 5:30.
Next we take the show up to Marin on Saturday October 30th to perform at Throckmorton Theatre:
Dramatic performance with Award-Winning Jazz
$23 General Day of Show
Then we come back to San Francisco to perform at Yoshi's Jazz Club. Yep, I said, Yoshi's! Yee ha, that's quite a gig! Here's the details for that:
October 31, 2010
$5 kids (not recommended for children under 9)
$15 adults with kids$20 adults
Since you're reading my blog, you must be a friend, so you can get a discount for the Throckmorton and Yoshi's performances by using the code word "OHANA" (all caps) when purchasing tickets. I've heard that this isn't working for the Throckmorton online site, so you may want to try calling them.
Ok, and if you're not excited already, here is a video sneak peek of what we'll be doing. It's going to be awesome. Please come!
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