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Tink Tink’s “Atchaa Atchaa Season 2” Features Eisaa
Everyone’s favorite Okinawa Pops group Tink Tink is back for their 2nd season of their special YouTube show “Atchaa Atchaa”. They start off this season featuring 3 of Okinawa’s most famous eisaa groups. Be sure to subscribe to their channel to catch the rest of their videos. And we must add that Rinken Band’s “Funayare”…
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Parsha cluB to Release New Eisaa Collection Album
Longtime readers of Karakui/Riccin know that we’re BIG fans of Parsha cluB. We view the band as a bridge between Rinken Band and BEGIN, and also as a link to new music created by Yonaha Toru and others. So it’s with great pleasure that we see a new 30th anniversary album from them of eisaa…
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“Eisaa Don Don” with English Subs! (YouTube)
Originally posted on Karakui: https://youtu.be/H_9Aym4iNrY “Eisaa Don Don” available until 8/31 With news that the 66th annual Eisaa Festival may actually take place this year (it was canceled last year due to the pandemic), the special movie “Eisaa Don Don” was made available on YouTube until August 31st. Be sure not to miss it!
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Amazing English Subtitled “Okinawa Live Show”
In the “We can’t believe this is available” department comes a strangely named website called “Okinawa Live Show” from the Okinawa Prefectural Government. Don’t let the name fool you as this is an amazing resource of English-subtitled videos (also available on their YouTube channel) of Luchuan traditional performing arts like Okinawa Shibai, Kumiudui, Ryukyu Buyou,…
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10,000 Eisaa Dancers Online in Virtual Okinawa
Due to the pandemic, most of this year’s eisaa festivities (there were still smaller, downsized local ones here and there) have been canceled. To make up for it, there was a limited time YouTube VOD of the fantastic film “Eisaa Don Don” (extended to 9/30!), a rebroadcast of the Campus Records x Matsuda Kazutoshi’s 2020…
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Remote Eisaa Festival 2020 Rebroadcast
With the cancellation of this year’s eisaa festivities, Campus Records is rebroadcasting their Remote Eisaa Festival 2020 on their YouTube channel! They have also launched a Remote Eisaa Festival website with an online store (sadly, no overseas shipping) and are accepting donations (“throwing money”). Speaking of Campus Records, they’ve been releasing a lot of great…
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66th All-Island Eisa Festival Canceled
It was scheduled to take place on August 28 to 29 so many of us were happy to see the festival back on-track but on July 21 the organizers have decided to cancel it due to the pandemic. It’s sad to see it canceled again but it’s for everyone’s safety as the organizers felt that…
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Kamiya Chihiro Releases “Eisa-Medley” Digital Single
Ahead of her upcoming new album release next month, Kamiya Chihiro surprised fans with a digital single for “Eisa-Medley”. The single is available on Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music!
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“Eisaa Don Don” Available for Limited Time (YouTube)
With news that the 66th annual Eisaa Festival may actually take place this year (it was canceled last year due to the pandemic), the special movie “Eisaa Don Don” was made available on YouTube until August 31st. Be sure not to miss it!
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Eisaa Don-Don (Drama)
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the All-Island Eisaa Festival (canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic), a drama special was shown on OTV on February 13th of this year. It looks like a must-watch drama and I love the part in the above trailer when it shows one of the drama’s themes: “We will…
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