WHAT? 2nd Eisa Drum Festival WHEN? Saturday, May 12, 2012 TIME? 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm WHERE? Great Lawn, Kapiolani Community College Kapiolani Community College and the Office of Student Activities are pleased to announce that the 2nd Eisa Drum Festival will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the Great Lawn at the … Continue reading »
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Help Chinagu Eisa Hawaii by Eating
Ray from Chinagu Eisa Hawaii tipped me off to a way to help their club by eating! On Sunday, 20 November 2011, bring the flyer to any Panda Express or Hibachi-san restaurant on the island of Oahu and 20% of your purchase will be donated to the club. Go eat!
Follow @BonDanceHawaii on Twitter & become a FaceBook fan
Like bon dancing? Follow @BonDanceHawaii and like our FB page at http://on.fb.me/kitYiJ— Champuru (@champuru) June 11, 2011
It’s bon dance season!
Donna’s BonDance.com website has a schedule up for the 2011 bon dance season. I’m planning on attending a few with her Bon Dance Posse so maybe I’ll some of you there. There’s also an informative video about Obon and eisa up on BonDance.com so be sure to check it out. Here’s the link: What is … Continue reading »
Kadena’s Senbaru Eisaa
Like I’m wont to do, finding an interesting link (from ChatanTown’s channel) on YouTube led me to look for other things and I found video clips of my hometown’s eisaa group, Senbaru Eisaa (千原郷友会) from Kadena. I’m so stoked!
Cocco’s latest single “NIRAI-KANAI”
J-pop artist Cocco (one of our favorites) recently released her meaningful single “NIRAI-KANAI” on June 9th featuring Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko and artist Curly Giraffe — both are also in the PV. In the PV, Cocco’s holding a jiifaa made by her good friend Kenjiro Matayoshi, a 7th generation maker of Ryukyu kanzeeku. According to her … Continue reading »
Website: “Let’s Bon Dance!” www.bondance.com
For all of you bon dance lovers out there, Donna has created a new website for you to keep up-to-date on where the action is at as well as posts that show you what bon dancing is all about through wonderful photos and videos. It’ll be great to see others in different parts of the … Continue reading »
7 Videos from the 2009 Shinjuku VII Eisa Matsuri
Wow. This is pretty awesome. A YouTube’r by the username of angelyarachinen uploaded seven videos from the 7th annual Shinjuku Eisa Matsuri. (Nifee deebitan to Myron Akana for the link!)
Myron shares video of this year’s Naha Matsuri Parade
Myron over at internet-okinawa.com (Flickr link) posted four videos he took of this year’s Naha Matsuri Parade. (You’ll find the 1st of the videos down below.) Visit akanamr’s YouTube channel for more great videos.
Video: 10,000 Person Eisa Parade from akanamr
I’ve much admired the photos taken by Myron (Internet-Okinawa.com on Flickr) who happens to also be a fan of eisa like I am. I hope the video taken by him of Naha’s 10,000 Person Eisa Parade is one of many to come. Be sure to subscribe to his YouTube channel to get the latest updates … Continue reading »
