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| Name: | David Finke |
| E-mail address: | dhfinke@gmail.com |
| Comments: | What a thrill to begin the New Year with you here in Columbia for "First Night," filling the Missouri Theater, and then at the Courthouse Square.. A whole new art form that inspired and uplifted us. Such amazing energy and discipline you have. It's not just the precision and sensitivity of the sound; it's also the grace and force and determination with which you move -- Can we call it "dance"? That's almost too gentle of a word. More like poetic explosion, everywhere at once, yet joined in an organic whole. I'm telling my friends about you! |
| Name: | Steve Esquire |
| E-mail address: | info@massageunlimited.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.massageunlimited.com |
| Comments: | Saw you all at UCI and again at UCLA. Awesome drumming and percussion.
Thanks for a wonderful performance! |
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| E-mail address: | duncan@yahoo.com |
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| Name: | claudine |
| E-mail address: | dlaudinemiller@att.net |
| Comments: | Loved, loved, loved the performance at the Japanese Festival. My husband and I have been inspired and want to learn. Please look for our application for the beginners class. |
| Name: | Colleen |
| E-mail address: | Murphy |
| Homepage URL: | http://aol.com |
| Comments: | Saw you at the Japanese Festival this last week end you are WONDERFUL!!!!! Can't waitfor your CD!!! |
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| E-mail address: | haley@sympatico.ca |
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| Name: | Brandon Riley |
| E-mail address: | A_Good86@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I just moved to st louis, been playing 13 years and would like to join the group. Hit me back with an email because I am really excited to join. |
| Name: | Laura |
| Comments: | I'm so honored to be a member of this group! The grace and beauty are so powerful. Love you all!!! |
| Name: | Karen Howe |
| E-mail address: | klh15@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Wow. Wow, Wow, WOW! You guys are amazing! I finally had the privilege of seeing you perform, and you are all so fantastic. I really enjoyed it! I hope your trip to Japan is a huge success. |
| Name: | Brian Sole |
| E-mail address: | raion.taiko@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.michigantaiko.com |
| Comments: | Hi St. Louis Osuwa Taiko. Nice Website. Lots of info. I am planning a trip to Suwako in Nagano next week. That's how I happened to stumble across your website. Glad I found it. |
| Name: | Shoji |
| Homepage URL: | http://onensemble.org/ |
| Comments: | Hey all! St. Louis Osuwa Taiko will always occupy a special place in my heart for bailing me out of a complete disaster back in 2003. I was on tour with Hiroshima right after the Taiko Conference and due to a mix up with the road manager I showed up in St. Louis with NO DRUMS!! Luckily St. Louis Osuwa Taiko saved the day by rushing drums to the theater seconds before I was supposed to take the stage... whew... I'll always be grateful for that! |
| Name: | Teri |
| E-mail address: | teribear62@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Attended your show (the first of its kind for me) at First Night St. Louis on New Year's Eve. Absolutley amazing! Hope you all attain your dreams! |
| Name: | Al Davis |
| E-mail address: | adavis54@charter.net |
| Comments: | Eddie, I'm impressed. I'm glad you had the passion for this. I hope to go to the next show on 12/31/08. What a way to bring in the new year! |
| Name: | Al Davis |
| E-mail address: | adavis54@charter.net |
| Comments: | Eddie, I'm impressed. I'm glad you had the passion for this. I hope to go to the next show on 12/31/08. What a way to bring in the new year! |
| Name: | Nicholas Handler |
| E-mail address: | nickhandler@mbdojo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.mbdojo.com |
| Comments: | I was lucky enough to see one of your performances during the Japanese Festival this year. You were the stars of the festival! I love what you guys do and am proud to know that you operate out of St. Louis.
I anxiously await a CD soon and look forward to possibly booking a performance for our Martial Arts school's yearly celebration. Thanks for your art and energy! |
| Name: | Susan Haley |
| E-mail address: | susanlampkin@ktis.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://arborspa.com |
| Comments: | I was on lunch break from MTIM and strolled into the festival by chance. Feeling so fortunate to wander through the event on such a gorgeous day, I heard the announcment for the taiko performance and rushed to find a seat. From the first beat I was utterly mesmorized. Thank you to the Columbia Arts Festival for giving this to us. I too am going to take the classes...our planet needs global drumming...I love the idea of bringing Native American drummers and all drummers together to synchronize out hearts once and for all! |
| Name: | daphanee gassel |
| E-mail address: | gypsylovedg@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | You guys were absolutely amazing at the Columbia Festival for the Arts today! I am so glad I stayed to see you guys and I know everyone else there loved it too! I had my eight year old brother with me and he was so bored all say and complained about everything until you guys went on. When you guys started playing his eyes got huge and he just said "that's awesome" and didn't move until you guys walked off set. It's all he's been talking about for hours! I hope you guys raise enough money to go to Japan! Good Luck and thanks for the performance, it was awesome! |
| Name: | llett |
| E-mail address: | jaci@stltaiko.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.stltaiko.com |
| Name: | Karen O'Koniewski |
| E-mail address: | ohboymommy@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | WOW! How COOL is Taiko! I knew I wanted to see a drum performance at the Japanese Festival yesterday...but I had no idea what I was in for. You guys are amazing and cool and talented and artistic. I am a musician, and all musicians have their tonal art and most have a visual aspect as well based on their physical activity (I've always been known to "get into it.") But you guys raise that physical activity to a whole new level and it is AWESOME.
Yup, loved it, can't wait to hear it again, want to do it. Just hope the class fits my schedule. |
| Name: | Jocelyn |
| Comments: | great new website :P |
| Name: | Richard Zabovnik |
| E-mail address: | RIZ445@cox.net |
| Comments: | Three of the members of Osuwa Taiko drove all the way from St. Louis to Edmond, OK to particapate in Taiko Madness II
that was held at my home again this year. Only 3 of them played, but it could have been a dozen from the sound and the energy that they produced. There were 3 college drumming groups at the event who were priviliged to watch Osuwa Taiko play half a dozen different drum selections. Each group learned something from each of the other group's performance. It was an amazing afternoon of drumming under crystal clear skies and an unusually calm day for Oklahoma. We went out to dinner with Andrew, Jaci, and Junsei after the event concluded and had a great meal at Pearl's Lakeside Restaurant. We had a great conversation about taiko and related things for over 2 hours. They are all wonderful and engaging people. Most of the members of the 3 college groups are international students who will have a terrific memory of the day they spent in Edmond drumming for their friends. Richard Zabovnik |
| Name: | Gene Nickel |
| E-mail address: | e.nickel@mchsi.com |
| Comments: | Dear Friends,
I saw your performace for the first time Friday night, 2/29/08, here in Jefferson City. This was one of the most amazing experiences of my life!! I can't tell you how much the power and beauty of your performances moved me! Between the loveliness of Maki's face as she concentrated on the music, Anna's incredibly beautiful smile and the love I could "feel" radiating from her as she flowed with the music, Helena's lovely form and power, and Andrew's incredible "force", together with the beauty of the "dance" as you ALL preformed "together" was almost more than I could stand! Thank you "ALL", for one of the most incredible experiences of my life!! I so hope to see you all again, and soon, and so I can bring some of my friends who I know will experience the same kind of joy and beauty that I did!! Thank you!! Good-bye for now! I hope to see you again soon!! (I may have to do something {pull some strings} either here in Jefferson City or at University of Missouri in Columbia to get you all back in this area as swoon as possible. I'll see what I can do!) Oh by the way, have you all ever performed for a group of American Indians? As great and powerful as drums were (and still are) in their culture, I would think this would be something they would "REALLY" enjoy experiencing!! (I think the "meeting" of these two cultures, in this way, through this music, would be awesome!!) Take care, my friends! God willing, we will meet again! |
| Name: | Tatsuo Sekiguchi |
| E-mail address: | fuurinkazan_tenko@yahoo.co.jp |
| Homepage URL: | http://dojotenko.gouketu.com/ |
| Comments: | I am proud very much of the St.Louis Osuwa Taiko. After all I think that the influence of the Grand Master Mr.Daihachi Oguchi is very big in drum world.
I think that there should be an opportunity to come sometime. Many Thanks! Tatsu |
| Name: | Misa |
| E-mail address: | misasuzu@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi, Guys! I don't know if there are still someone in the current members who remembers me, but I'll write anyway! :) It's been a while since I saw this website last.
Andrew (Thalheimer-san), are you still with the Osuwa Taiko? Ellen, Aya, too? I was away from the US for the past three years (went to Singapore to teach) and now I'm back in the US, at Cornell. It seems they just started taiko group last year here, so I am planning to join them (if I passed the audition, that is.) Anyway, just wanted to say Hi to St. Louis Osuwa Taiko Group. You guys sound GREAT!!! :) |
| Name: | Kelli |
| E-mail address: | dragonflygurl1@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | This was the first year i went to the Japanese festival and I saw you guys perform and you were great. The energy you guys had through it and the music was good. Makes me want to go to the japanese festival every year just to watch you perform |
| Name: | Sarah C |
| E-mail address: | Geminisc64@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | You guys are awsome!! i love your music. Your the reason I go to the Japenise Festival each year, great job!! |
| Name: | Del Dobbs |
| E-mail address: | SSLeonjr@Sailormoon.com |
| Comments: | My Wif and I got to see you all at the St. Louis japanese Festival On Sept. 2nd for our 4 year wedding anniversery, and we loved you guys!, the rhythem was awsome and your performance was amazing! We both hope you all continue to have a great time together and continued success with your music! we love you guys!! |
| Name: | Amanda Jackson |
| E-mail address: | msmander87@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.myspace.com/msmander87 |
| Comments: | First of all: WOW! You guys rocked my socks and then some! I was at your performance Yesterday at the Japanese Festival and you guys have inspired me to want to learn the awesome art of Taiko-I mean i've seen performances before on T.V. but when you see it live...WOWIES! You guys are AWESOME and I'm SOOO glad I had the oppurtunity to see you, you guys have made a fan for life! <(^.^<) |
| Name: | Tim T.R.A.N.C.E. |
| E-mail address: | timmueller042@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I saw your performance at the Japanese Festival. I was captured in pure awe. Your music is very amazing and extremely inspiring!!!! I'm going to be sure to keep a close eye on your site for news regarding your performances!!!! By the way what was the name of the song that you performed for the finale on the first day of the Japanese festival? |
| Name: | mark |
| E-mail address: | mark_heady@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | i saw you guys in 2005 and again tonight. i could listen to you guys play for days. you guys should be very proud of yourselves. you have an amazing talent. i bought circus harmony in 2005 at your show and some one stole it. i cant wait for your cd to come out. is there any way to get a t-shirt online? the new ones are pretty cool. keep up the good work. cant wait to see you again.
big fan |
| Name: | GavinPerry |
| E-mail address: | gavin53perry@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Just came back from your concert at the Japanese Festival at Mo Bot Garden. So what does "E ya sa ta esa" mean after all?
G |
| Name: | Jason |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.jasonrscott.com |
| Comments: | Wonderful work! |
| Name: | Ula |
| E-mail address: | alkaissu@lawrence.edu |
| Comments: | I recently took an independant study on taiko in university. I looked and looked for ways it was combined with polish music, or if it even was. But now, once I'm done, I found it. Great Job! I really like. The band is also one of my favorite from Poland. Keep pushing in this direction!
Thank you! |
| Name: | dirck |
| E-mail address: | dirck@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://board-ua.com/ |
| Comments: | Great site, I am surfing the web and well this helped me a lot on my query! Haven't had much luck finding such a good info! GREAT JOB! |
| Name: | Rick |
| E-mail address: | rick@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.b4playing.com |
| Comments: | you have a cool site - keep it going! |
| Name: | Ulf |
| E-mail address: | bert8lil@gmx.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.witze.eu |
| Comments: | I'm from Germany and I like this sound.
When are you the next time in Germany ? And Where ? I want to hear your sound - that's the rythm I need !!! Greeting from Ulf |
| Name: | Colleen Wilder |
| E-mail address: | kileen05@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi,
We lived in Japan for 3 years. We have family there. We saw a Taiko session in Japan with more than 30 people on stage.It was very moving.You feel your heart beat keeping with the time of the drum. I love it.When we saw your art,your music it was the same feeling. You know it only takes a few Taiko drummers can make a sound of 300! Domo Arigato Gasimas!!! Colleen |
| Name: | David |
| E-mail address: | dptaylor65@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi Everyone: Took my daughter, son-in-law, and 10 year old grandson to see you at the Japanese Festival last night. You should have heard my grandson. Taiko is the reason I have been going to the festival for years now. Really enjoyed it, keep up the good work.
David |
| Name: | Arec |
| E-mail address: | n.arec@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://arecwords.proboards57.com |
| Comments: | I saw you guys at the Japanese Festival and I just want to say you guys are so awesome! I could listen to you guys play for hours. Such intensity and livelihood. It was my first time every seeing something like that and I would do it it over and over because you guys are amazing. ^^
~Arec |
| Name: | Maggie MacMichael |
| E-mail address: | sissy_aggie01@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | H! I'm Nick the grup member's little sister. You guys are AWESOME!!!! Whenever my mom and I come to the performances, we know almost all of the songs. Good luck with future performances! ~ Maggie MacMichael P.S. You need to take a new picture of the group (with the new members) and put it on the website, Andrew! |
| Name: | Wendy |
| E-mail address: | wendywhiteside@alum.wustl.edu |
| Comments: | Been a while since I took a look at this site, but WOW... you guys look awesome in those pictures!! :) I didn't know you were so intense! hehe. |
| Name: | Becky |
| E-mail address: | bassyrs@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Saw your show Sunday 9/4 at the Japanese Festival in St. Louis. It was awesome. You guys made me want to learn taiko - ya gotta admit, musicians have the most enjoyable recruitment tactics. I hope to catch your October concert. Just wanted to leave a note to express how much I enjoyed your show. Thanks for a great ending to a great day! |
| Name: | Sheeran |
| E-mail address: | luke2bvater@aol.com |
| Comments: | I saw you guys at the Botanical Gardens Japanese festival, and I will hopefully see you at the Forest Park performance.
All of you were just fabulous! The way your bodies moved all together was just beautiful, and the power of the drums was beyond belief! Good luck with everything you do in the future! |
| Name: | Leonard |
| E-mail address: | hmliaw@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Wow.. being a long time since I visited the site.
The picture on the "Group" page made me nostalgic again. Ok... Kaifuu is from Andrew... and the other songs originated from? Wendy, where did you get a WASHU alum email account? I want one too.. |
| Name: | Tiffany |
| E-mail address: | ttaylor1@maryville.edu |
| Homepage URL: | http://poser-cookies.net |
| Comments: | I saw you guys today at Hands Across the Pacific and wow! You're all awesome!! I really want to learn taiko drumming - it looks extrememly difficult, but very fun at the same time. Well, I'm glad I saw your performence today, keep up the great job. Who knows, maybe someday I'll be a member? Anyway, hope to see ya at the Japanese Festival. |
| Name: | robin |
| E-mail address: | ssaavik@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | great job on the cd, guys! i'm so sad that i couldn't play with you all in it. :-P my wimpy body can't even play one song now without being winded.
many of the other non-taiko pieces on the circus harmony cd are quite polished! i'm pretty impressed that this product came from our local st. louis, grass roots, community, non-profit groups! |
| Name: | Wendy |
| E-mail address: | wendywhiteside@alum.wustl.edu |
| Comments: | Hey guys!
The site looks great, as always. :) I like the new additions... and you have a CD out??? That's awesome. Congrats!! I would like a copy, so let me know where I can get my hands on one. Where did all these new songs come from anyways?? I miss you all. I'm trying to stay in shape here with Soh Daiko, but it's been difficult to do so this year due to lack of time. Hopefully I'll be back at it next year and hopefully I'll have more time to come see you play again in St louis! Until then, Ganbatte!! |
| Name: | robin |
| E-mail address: | ssaavik@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hey guys! I miss taiko quite a bit. I would love to come back at least in some form.
It sounds like you guys are gonna rock at the Gardens this year! I'm unfortunately going to be out of town that weekend, but I'll be thinking of you! Fingers twitchin', robin |
| Name: | Andrew |
| E-mail address: | andrew@stlouis.osuwa.taiko.cc |
| Homepage URL: | http://stlouis.osuwa.taiko.cc |
| Comments: | Join that group! You don't want to stay so out of practice.
Join 'em then come back and teach us something. (If you can still lift your arms after practice!) |
| Name: | Leonard Liaw |
| E-mail address: | hmliaw@mail.utexas.edu |
| Comments: | Damn I miss Taiko. I'm seriously considering joining the taiko group here in Austin. 2 things I got out from my visit last week 1) Extreme happiness in seeing you guys again and playing on the drums again and 2) Realization of how out of shape I am. My arms and legs were sore for days after the short 2 hour fun I had with the drums. I feel like I was back to day one 5 years ago when I first started playing taiko.
Miss you guys. Drop me call if you're heading down this way. I might make another trip to STL next year for the 5 year Wash U reunion. Who knows... hope to see you soon and good luck on everything. Leonard |
| Name: | Mika Ebihara |
| E-mail address: | m_ebihara5108@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi! I'm a president of Arashi Taiko Club at St.Cloud State
University in Minnesota. We are thinking about to contact other college taiko teams. We used be have a website, but our school cut our website. Therefore, we are creating now. I hope to relationship with you guys and in the near future, we want to open a big collge taiko event! |
| Name: | Melanie Rodrigues |
| E-mail address: | merodri@siue.edu |
| Comments: | Hi,
I have heard great things about the troupe. I am currently looking to book performers for our Campus Events at SIUE and would love to have you guys perform here. If interested kindly e-mail me @ merodri@siue.edu Thanks and keep up the good work! Melanie Rodrigues Multicultural Programs Chair Campus Activities Board, SIUE |
| Name: | Kirsten |
| E-mail address: | kborger01@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My family and I went to the Japanese festival at the Botanical gardens this year. And we found our way over to your groups performance. No words can describe the music. It was more than inspirational, it was plan amazing. I hope to see you there next year. |
| Name: | Marc Ellington |
| E-mail address: | MarcE20@aol.com |
| Comments: | In a quest for a part of my heritage a few years back I found Taiko (Most notably a KODO CD). I immediately found a very enjoyable form of music. I wish that I was still in school so that I could be eligible to try out for the group. I plan to see you perform sometime in the near future, and am looking forward to the opportunity.
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| Name: | Stephanie Haworth |
| E-mail address: | haworthsd@charter.net |
| Comments: | saw you guys today at balloon festival in forest park and was WOWED! am looking forward to coming to practices and possibly joining! |
| Name: | sephie |
| E-mail address: | seph@japan.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.moanime.org |
| Comments: | I found a new love, but while I should be happy, I'm actually saddend. You see, I live far away from St. Louis (3 hrs drive to be exact) and can't possibly afford the gas it would take to really become a part of Osuwa Taiko. So, now what? Do i just deal? I don't wanna!! Should I transfer to Washington University for taiko?! LOL
Someone help me!! Is there any Taiko groups in Columbia,MO? or even Springfield,MO?? Or even yet, Kansas City,MO???? If anyone has ANYTHING for me, email me puh-leeze!!! |
| Name: | Jim Backer |
| E-mail address: | info@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.elitemassagechairs.com |
| Comments: | Wow, what a great site... Thought I'd drop by, so to
speak, and say thanks again for such a great performance last Tuesday! Gotta keep in touch and do it again sometime, definitely. Have a good one! |
| Name: | Chuck |
| E-mail address: | shadowlessasasin@aol.com |
| Comments: | ARRRRGGGHH!!!!! I am so damn frustrated now cuz my professor won't let me take the final early, which means I will not be able to come see you guys perform at UCLA in the upcoming intercollegiate! Anyways, I hope you guys will have a good time there though. I certainly did last year at UCI. |
| Name: | Britt |
| E-mail address: | slavepuppet@lycos.com |
| Comments: | I went to the Botanical Gardens September 1 and saw...heard...your group perform. It was wonderful! I thoroughly enjoyed the original composition, 'performed for the second time ever'. Heheh. Before the Japenese Festival, I hadn't the slightest clue as to what Taiko drumming was, and really, I'm happy I know now! Does Osuwa Taiko, by any chance, have a CD out? I'd like to buy one, if you do = }
-Britt |
| Name: | Megan Geeck |
| E-mail address: | animegirlie20228@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I've seen the Osuwa Taiko perform at least 3 times, probably more. The lastest event was at the Japanese Festival of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and at the beginning of the summer at the Hands Across the Pacific performace at Maryville. I just wanted to say that I love the group, I love the performances and I love the members. I think you're all wonderful people for sharing your gift with others, and thanks so much for the picture opportunity you gave to us Hands Across the Pacific students! You've helped to introduce me to a new and beautiful artform, and I hope to see more performances in the future!
~Megan |