Spring 2026 Kenny Endo 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert Tour
East Coast and West Coast Booking NOW
Contact:  karen@pasifika-artists.com OR taikoarts@gmail.com

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12.2.2025 10 am DEAF SANTA – PearlRidge Center (by the movie theaters)

12.3.2025 5:30 pm Japan America Society of Hawaii’s Bridge Awards Banquet, Sheraton Waikiki

12.5.2025  5:30-6:30 pm Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble at
First Friday, Capitol Modern, Hawaii State Museum of Art
featuring Kenny Endo, Todd Yukumoto (sax, flute), Abe Lagrimas Jr (vibes, drumset, ukulele), Mika Mimura (vibes), Yumi Fujii (congas, percussion)

12.6.2025  5:30 pm TCP 32nd annual Bonenkai – Fun for Family & Friends!

12.7.2025  6:00 pm Pearl Harbor Commemorative Parade, Waikiki

12.13.2025  5:00 pm Statewide Cultural Extension Program Showcase, University of Hawaii Music Department including TCP, Jeff Gere, Bailey Matsuda, Greywolf, Phoenixx Chamber Ensemble and more

12.14.2025  Honolulu Marathon, Diamond Head ROAD summit (near Amelia Earhart Memorial)

1.1.2026 Thursday Kenny Endo and Taiko Center of the Pacific
7:09 am First Hike, New Year’s Day Sunrise at Kai’wi State Scenic Shoreline Park
9 am Royal Hawaiian Center’s Fukubukuro Celebration
1 pm  Ala Moana Center’s Fukuburo Celebration, Ala Moana Center Stage
3 pm  Ala Moana Center’s Fukuburo Celebration, Ala Moana Center Stage

1.11.2026 Sunday Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii’s Ohana Festival
11 am JCCH 5F Ballroom

1.12.2026 – 3.01.2026 TCP’s Spring Session I (6 weeks) TBC
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

2.21–2.22.2026 Saturday-Sunday Swingposium

3.2–4.19.2026 TCP’s Spring Session II (6 weeks) TBC
NO class on Sunday, April 5 (Easter Sunday)
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

4.20–6.1.2026 TCP’s Spring Session III (6 weeks) TBC
NO classes on May 25 (Mon)
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

6.7–7.5.2026 TCP’s Summer Session I (4 weeks) TBC
NO classes on June 14 (Sun)
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

7.12–8.6.2026 TCP’s Summer Session II (4 weeks) TBC
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

8.9–9.3.2026 TCP’s Summer Session III (4 weeks) TBC
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

9.13–10.22.2026 TCP’s Fall Session I (6 weeks) TBC
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

10.29–12.10.2026 TCP’s Fall Session II (6 weeks) TBC
NO classes on Nov 26 (Thanksgiving)
https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions

12.12.2026 TCP’s 33rd Annual Bonenkai TBC

3.21.2026 Saturday Cherry Blossom Festival Ball

3.28.2026 Saturday Kidney Walk

2025 Performances now past

1.1.2025  7:09 AM New Year’s Day Sunrise
Taiko Center of the Pacific Youth Group performs at First Hike
Ka’iwi State Scenic Shoreline Park

1.1.2025 10 AM  New Year’s Day
Taiko Center of the Pacific performs at Royal Hawaiian Center “The Grove”

1.11.2025 10 am New Year’s Ohana Festival
Taiko Center of the Pacific performs at Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

1.25.2025 10 am Chinese New Year’s Celebration
Taiko Center of the Pacific performs at Market City

1.25.2025 5-7:30 pm “A Song in Movement” film about activist/dancer/actress/producer
Nobuko Miyamoto w/ performance, Fulkerson Hall, California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt
features Nobuko Miyamoto, Derek Nakamoto, Juan Perez, and Chizuko Endo

1.27.2025 5:30-7:30 pm “Not Yo Butterfly” Talk Story with Nobuko Miyamoto, Deborah Wong, and
Chizuko Endo. Native American Forum BSS162, California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt

1.28.2025 5 pm Lunar New Year’s Celebration,Hyatt Regency Hotel

3.9.2025 4:30 pm Honolulu Festival Parade (Ft DeRussy to Kapiolani Park)
TCP performs Edo Bayashi and Mikoshi Bayashi

3.29.2025 8 am Kidney Walk at Kapiolani Park

4.2.2025 Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble private event

4.4.2025 6 pm Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii’s “Irasshai” Event
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2454 S Beretania Street, Honolulu, HI

4.11.2025 5:45 pm Art at the Capitol

4.12.2025 11 am Mauka to Makai Environmental Fair, Waikiki Aquarium

4.12.2025 Rhythm of the Universe, a special event

4.13.2025 2 pm East West Center’s Multi-Cultural Festival
East West Center, 1601 East West Road (behind Keoni Auditorium)

4.19.2025 YG Brit’s Wedding!

4.29.2025 Japan America Society of Hawaii’s Japan Day

4.25-4.27.2025   “Tadaima” Kenny Endo, Russel Baba, Gary Fitzgerald, Jeanne Mercer in Mt Shasta, CA
Virtual tickets available via TaikoVentures

4.27.2025–6.1.2025 TCP Spring Session III at WMS and KCC (5 weeks only)

5.2.2025 Methuselah, Kenny Endo guests with Hawaii Symphonic Band, Moanalua High School

5.23.2025 Kenny Endo guests with WAITIKI at the Halekulani Hotel, 2199 Kaila Road, Honolulu
https://www.halekulani.com/experiences/the-waitiki-7-returns/

5.24–5.25.2025  Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational workshops and performance, Stanford University

5.26-2025 6 pm Kenny Contemporary Ensemble at Hakone Gardens, Bay Area, CA
Kenny Endo, Masaru Koga, Jay Lai, Chizuko Endo, Hiroshi “Rosh” Tanaka
https://www.hakone.com/eventshttps://www.hakone.com/events

6.3.2025 5 pm “The Art of Taiko – Stories Told through Taiko,” a lecture/demonstration
Kapaa Public Library, Kauai Island

6.3–7.21.2025 TCP Summer Session I at WMS and KCC
TCP: https://taiko-center-of-the-pacific-387153.square.site/current-upcoming-sessions
KCC Registration: https://continuinged.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/taiko/

6.21.2025 10 am “The Art of Taiko – Stories Told through Taiko,” a lecture/demonstration
Moiliili-McCully Public Library

6.28.2025 10 am “The Art of Taiko – Stories Told through Taiko,” a lecture/demonstration
Liliha Public Library

7.2-7.3.2025 BIG ISLAND “The Art of Taiko – Stories Told through Taiko,” a lecture/demonstration
7.2.2025 10 am Naalehu Public Library
7.2.2025 1 pm Mountain View Public Library
7.3.2025 5 pm Honokaa Public Library

7.5.2025 TCP cameo performance at Moiliili Summer Festival @ Washington Middle School grounds

7.19.2025 10 am “The Art of Taiko – Stories Told through Taiko,” a lecture/demonstration
Aina Haina Public Library

7.26.2025 “Story Circle” of the Japanese diaspora (on-line) presented by Brenda Wong Aoki and First Voice

KE 50th Anniversary Concerts + Events

August 9 – Saturday
7 pm
間 MA vs GROOVE I Concert
Kenny Endo’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert
Traditional Japanese Festival & Classical Music and Dance + Contemporary Taiko Collaborations with local jazz greats featuring Kenny Endo, Mochizuki Saburo, Suzuki Kyosuke, Okayasu Kiyora, JD Andrade, Mika Yamazaki, Noel Okimoto, Dean Taba, Todd Yukumoto, Abe Lagrimas, Jr, Jay Lai, Pei-Ling Kao, Chozen-ji artists, String Quartet, and other special guests!
PLUS screening of the Renkon project by Noe Tanigawa
University of Hawaii’s Kennedy Theatre
Details, concert tickets and workshop tickets ON SALE NOW, visit: kennyendo50.com

August 10 – Sunday
4 pm
間 MA vs GROOVE II Concert
Kenny Endo’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert
AND Taiko Center of the Pacific’s 31st Anniversary

• Taiko Center of the Pacific featuring TCP’s Youth (“YG”) and Adult Performing Ensembles, Special Guests Seiichi Tanaka, Shoji Kameda, Hiroshi “Rosh” Tanaka, Michael Gonhata, Alumni, and others

University of Hawaii’s Kennedy Theatre
Details, concert tickets and workshop tickets ON SALE NOW, visit: kennyendo50.com

August 11 – Monday
Educational Outreach
7-8 pm Collegiate Taiko Gathering – UH Music Building

August 12-14 Tuesday-Thursday
間 MA vs GROOVE Workshops – The Summer Taiko Intensives
9 am – 5 pm – SIX Workshops DAILY

• 間 MA vs GROOVE Workshops with Kenny Endo, Mochizuki Saburo, Suzuki Kyosuke, Russel Baba & Jeanne Mercer, PJ Hirabayashi, Shoji Kameda, Hiroshi Rosh” Tanaka, Abe Lagrimas Jr, Mochizuki Mukon (J.D. Andrade), David Ryo Jones, Michael Gonhata, Sho’on Shibata, and other special taiko artists

Details, concert tickets and workshop tickets ON SALE NOW, visit: kennyendo50.com

August 12-14 Tuesday-Thursday evenings
7-8 pm
間 MA vs GROOVE Cultural Programs
August 12 – Hogaku Bayashi Past & Present
w/ Mochizuki Saburo (founding member of Sukeroku Taiko and esteemed Kabuki musician)
August 13 – Edo Sato Kagura (Japanese shrine music and dance) AND Festival Music
w/ Suzuki Kyosuke (acclaimed Edo style Lion Dancer of the Wakayama Shachu of Tokyo)
August 14 – Tradition as a Basis of Innovation – Symmetrical Soundscapes, Moonwind, Sunflower
w/ Kenny Endo (renown taiko artist paving new directions for the art of taiko)

August 15 – Friday
“Healing Beats,” U.S. premiere of documentary film about the art of taiko and its global impact
by Spanish filmmaker Ivan Munoz Ureta

8.29-8.31.2025  North American Taiko Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Kenny Endo, Chizuko Endo, Sho’on Shibata, Michael Gonhata will offer workshops in addition to many other North American Taiko Leaders

9.19.2025 Kahilu Theatre, Waimea, BIG ISLAND – Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble
https://kahilu.org/events/kenny-endo-50th-anniversary-celebration/

9.20.2025 Anaina Hou, Kauai – Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble
https://anainahou.org/events/kenny-endo/

9.13.2025 Habilitat, Kaneohe HI

10.2.2025 20th Annual Mahatma Gandhi Day / Day of Non-Violence

10.14.2025 Finney Chapel, Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble, Oberlin OH

10.17.2025 Kenny Endo, keynote speaker, Schools of the Future Conference

10.24.2025 Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble, Rialto Theater, Loveland CO
https://tickets.rialtotheatercenter.org/default.asp?searchdate=10/24/2025

10.30.2025 JASH “Japan Day”

11.14.2025 TCP at Kuakini Foundation’s “Holiday Trees and Treasures”

11.14.2025 Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble, The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton, OH
https://secure.thereser.org/1489/1492

11.16.2025 Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble, Field Arts & Events Hall, Port Angeles, WA
https://fieldhallevents.org/event/kenny-endo-contemporary-taiko-50th-anniversary-tour/

11.17.2025 Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble, Triple Door, Seattle, WA
https://tickets.thetripledoor.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=2156

11.22.2025 Kenny Endo Contemporary Ensemble, Aratani Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
https://jaccc.org/events/kenny-endo-50-years-of-taiko/
Kenny Endo HOMECOMING CONCERT featuring
Kenny Endo (taiko), Abe Lagrimas Jr (ukulele, vibes, drumset), Jay Lai (guzheng, piano, ukulele), Chizuko Endo (taiko, percussion), Dave Iwataki (keyboards, synthesizer), Hitomi Oba (sax), Nobuko Miyamoto (vocals), Johnny Mori (taiko), Josie Hung (dizi flute), Nomi Jean (Nominjin) (vocals), Miles Endo (taiko, percussion), Maz Baba (taiko).