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"I
Saw Baachan Kissing Santa Claus"
Grateful
Crane Holiday Concert Coming to Torrance on December
12
The Grateful
Crane Ensemble (GCE) will be celebrating the season with its first
ever holiday concert and CD launch party on Sunday, December 12 at
1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Toyota
Meeting Hall in Torrance.
Entitled
"I Saw Baachan
Kissing Santa Claus," the concert will
feature the Scott Nagatani Band and the Grateful Crane holiday
singers who will be singing all 20 songs from
GCE's brand new
holiday CD.
"This show is kind
of like a JA holiday potluck," said Soji
Kashiwagi, Executive Producer of GCE.
"Everyone in the
family brings their best dishes and wishes to the table, and the
end result is something everyone enjoys. In that
sense, holiday cheer is what we'll be
serving-in
abundance."
Holiday favorites
performed during the show include White Christmas, Santa Claus
is Coming to Town, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Holy
Night, Baby, It's Cold
Outside, Silent Night, I'll be Home for
Christmas, I Saw Baachan Kissing Santa Claus, The
Christmas Song, Grown up Christmas List and more.
Grateful Crane's Kurt Kuniyoshi
also will be singing the theme song from the popular Korean drama,
Winter Sonata in Korean, English and Japanese.
Performers in the
show include: Kerry Keiko Carnahan, Jason Fong,
Loryce Hashimoto, Haruye Ioka, Lisa Joe, Keiko Kawashima, Hideo
Kimura, Darrell Kunitomi, Kurt Kuniyoshi, Aimee Machida, Merv
Maruyama, Helen Ota, Michael Palma, Fusako Shiotani and a special
guest appearance by the Songbird of Manzanar, Mary Kageyama
Nomura.
The Scott
Nagatani Band includes Scott on piano, Danny Yamamoto on
drums/percussion, Gordon Bash on bass and Lisa Joe on
keyboards.
After the
concert, attendees will have an opportunity to purchase the CD and
meet the cast and musicians.
The Toyota
Meeting Hall at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center is located at
3330 Civic Center Drive in Torrance. Plenty of free
parking is available. General admission tickets for
the concert are $25.00. For a group of ten or more,
tickets are $22.00.
For reservations,
call the Grateful Crane hotline at (323) 769-5503.
(Leave a message and someone will call you
back.)
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