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Live blogging at the Okinawan Festival
Not sure if I’ll even have time to do this (I’m one of the performers for the festival), but I’m hoping that this’ll be the first year that I’ll be live-blogging from the HUOA Okinawan Festival. The festival, the 26th, will be held at Kapiolani Park (Honolulu, Hawaii) from Saturday 8/30 to Sunday 8/31. More…
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Tutorial: Tuning your sanshin, Part 1
When something gets requested here enough times, we’ll do our best to get it to you. So here it is, our first video tutorial on tuning your sanshin. Be sure to check out our “Tuning Your Sanshin” page for more info. I’ll also have it up for download — at a better quality than streaming…
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Karakui.com
If you haven’t already bookmarked us, perhaps now is the best time to do so: karakui.com. 🙂
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Karakui.com: Two songs I’m in love with…
Rimi Natsukawa’s latest album (and perhaps her last from the JVC label), “Umuikaji” (VICL-62259), as a whole is pretty good, much like her other 11, yes eleven (we’re going according to her record label’s site), albums. But two songs, both eisaa-flavored, are simply delicious to my ears. Of course, I’m kind of partial to this…
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