Progressive Taiko

Happy Holidays from Prota!

lizisrunning — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:17:49 +0000

Hey everyone!

We’ve had a great year, and we hope you have too! Prota would like to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season! Be safe and be merry… peace on earth!

PROTA wins Nima-Kai Games!

lizisrunning — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:37:44 +0000

Craig, Keiko, Minoru, Frank and David emerged victorious yesterday at DiscoverNikkei.org’s Nima-Kai Games. Congratulations guys, and great job! Way to support the community!

Nima-Kai Games: Xperiment in Community Learning

lizisrunning — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:25:54 +0000

On the morning of Saturday, November 20th, Prota is going to represent the taiko community at the Nima-Kai Games at the Japanese American National Museum. The Games are hosted by the folks at Discover Nikkei.org , and they are going to test the community’s knowledge of everything Nikkei! We will be answering trivia questions, acting out clues and trying to guess what others know about Nikkei issues through a “survey-says” type of activity! It sounds amazing, and we’re really looking forward to it. Wish us luck!

Celebration of the Arts

minoroots — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:40:03 +0000

Prota recently participated in the city of Yorba Linda’s 11th Annual Celebration of the Arts! It was a beautiful sunny Sunday and we had a great time checking out the wonderful works by artists around town, and also enjoyed performances by other groups like the Ron Kobayashi Trio and the Beach City Big Band. We had a fun crowd on hand that actively engaged in our audience participation portion. Good job, people of Yorba Linda! We hope you enjoyed the performance as much as we did!

Photo credit: Gabriella R. (Celebration of the Arts)

PROTA Rocks NATC 2009

minoroots — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:09:34 +0000

We debuted a brand-new rendition of Jason’s composition, “Yonsei,” at the 2009 North American Taiko Conference! This Yonsei “Vol. 2″ incorporates our contemporary taiko beats and movements with some rockin’ riffs by Minoru on the electric guitar. We’re excited about stepping into this new territory of music… we still have so much to learn and explore! Check out the videos of our performance below!

“Yonsei (vol. 2)” & “Swing”
Friday, August 7th, 2009
North American Taiko Conference 2009: “Taiko Ten”

Thanks for all of the support, fellow taiko-lovers!