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WaFoo Band Photograph
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From Left:
Yutaka Uchida (drums), Yuuki Koike
(flute/alto sax), Kazuo Nakamura (bass) Ippei Ichimaru (Shamisen), Takeshi Asai (piano)
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From Left:
Ippei Ichimaru (cello/bass), Takeshi Asai (piano), Sanae Asai
(vocal/calligraphy), Masashi Sonoda (guitar), Yuuki Koike
(flute/alto sax), Yutaka Uchida (drums), Kazuo Nakamura (bass)
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Our Major Appearances
White
Plains Cherry Blossom Festival 2005 & 2006
Cable TV "MANHATTAN CLASSICAL
OPERA HOUR"
(Manhattan Neighborhood
Network) March 11 & April 22, 2006
WaFoo Concert and Clinic at Greenwich
Japanese School (CT), December 6, 2005
P.S.
22 (Educational program Funded by SI Bank & Trust Foundation
GAINS)
WaFoo Concerts(June. 2nd, 2005 @P.S. 22)
Off-Broadway show “D” music, June
2005
White
Plains Cherry Blossom Festival 2005 (May. 8th, 2005 @Tibbits
Park)
Nagasaki Hiroshima Reflections in Staten
Island, April 2005
NYC
Culture Fest 2004 at Battery Park(Oct. 2nd, 2004 @Battery
Park)
JuneFest 2004 at Jacques Marchais Museum
of Tibetan Art, June 2004 (presented by COAHSI)
Greenwich SeptemberFest (Connecticut), September
18, 2005
October Concert with the Richmond County
Orchestra (Staten Island, NY), October 9, 2005
WaFoo
Concert at St. Peter’s Church (Staten Island, NY), October
23, 2005
Upcoming Performances
Saturday, May 27, 2006 - WaFoo Spring -
Summer Concert
St. Peter's Church 8:00 p.m. -
53 St. Mark's Place, Staten Island, NY 10301
Saturday, October 14, 2006 - Concert &
Lecture at Hammond Museum
Hammond Museum 2:00 p.m. -
Deveau Road, North Salem, NY 10560
Sunday November 12, 2006 - Pre Thanksgiving
Banquet
hosted by Japan Society of Fairfield County 12:00 p.m. -
St. Luke's LifeWorks - 8 Woodland Place, Stamford CT
Quotes
“WaFoo’s amalgam of jazz and traditional
elements is very, very easy to love.”
- Michael Fressola, Arts Editor for Staten Island Advance
“People were in tears; emails and phone
messages have been pouring in.... many, many people spoke
about how deeply your performance affected them.”
- Beth Gorrie, Coordinator of the Hiroshima Nagasaki Reflections
Press Articles
News Paper
Staten
Island Advance (Oct. 21st, 2005)
Staten
Island Advance (Oct. 4th, 2005)
Staten
Island Advance (Sept. 4th, 2005)
Yomitime
(Oct. 7th, 2005)
Staten
Island Advance - December 26th, 2004
Staten
Island Advance - July 4th, 2004 (Review)
Staten
Island Source - June 24th, 2004
Staten
Island Advance - June 22nd, 2004
Contact Infomation
email: info@WaFoo.info
Phone: 718-816-4126
Thank you.
