East West Gamers Launches 55th Time With December Concert That includes Hawaiian Artist Daniel Ho

East West Players, the nation’s longest operating theatre of color and the major producer of Asian American artistic get the job done, is psyched to announce a leading livestream concert to kick off their 55th anniversary season, Concerning Worlds.

The present options many GRAMMY-successful Hawaiian musician Daniel Ho. The concert will be the first to convey new music to the East West Gamers stage because Los Angeles theaters had been shut down previously this 12 months. The demonstrate was safely and securely filmed at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Tiny Tokyo before this month.

The live performance will broadcast via livestream December 19, 2020 7 PM PST with a submit-demonstrate Q & A to observe. Movie-On-Demand of the demonstrate will be out there for invest in December 20th 2020 – January 4th 2021. For extra details and to obtain tickets, make sure you visit www.eastwestplayers.org.

Daniel is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning producer and artist in the Finest Hawaiian Songs, Very best Pop Instrumental and Most effective Globe Music types. Other accolades incorporate fourteen GRAMMY nominations, six Golden Melody awards, 3 Nā Hōkū Hanohano awards and fifteen Hawaii Tunes Awards. As a solo artist, Daniel has toured during the U.S. and all-around the world. Daniel’s collaborations transcend genres, from globe music with Mongolian nomads, to classical guitar and ukulele duets with Pepe Romero, to driving rock riffs with electrical guitarist Tak Matsumoto. As an educator, Daniel has visitor-lectured at Stanford College, UCLA and the Oberlin Conservatory of Audio. In 2019, he launched “Ukulele Globe,” an on the internet tutorial plan with YAMAHA’s Musician’s Creative imagination Lab. Daniel also patterns instruments, like the Bongolele and Shakerlele for Ohana Ukuleles and the iconic Small Tenor `ukulele with renowned luthier Pepe Romero Jr. Daniel’s initial music, “Pineapple Mango (The Breakfast Tune)”, has risen to fame as an anthem included by ʻukulele enthusiasts on YouTube. Most a short while ago, Daniel has collaborated with writer Sam O’Neal and choreographer Keali`i Ceballos to develop the primary musical, Pineapple Mango. Generally on the transfer, Daniel is in infinite pursuit of new musical adventures.

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KEALI`I CEBALLOS is a hula journeyman attributing his really like for hula to his mom and dad. In 1991, Kealiʻi started Hālau Hula Kealiʻi O Nālani. In its 28th calendar year, the Hālau has done in prestigious gatherings nationally and internationally. In addition to his function with the hālau, Kealiʻi teaches in Japan, UCLA’s Division of Environment Arts and Cultures/Dance and Santa Monica College or university. His talent has led to associations with movies this sort of as Soul Surfer, Bedtime Stories, Dance with Me, Rapa Nui and Salsa. In 2011, Kealiʻi was honored by the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors for 20 several years of cultural company to the Los Angeles Community.

KANANI TOJI Less than the direction of her kumu, Keali’i Ceballos of Hālau Hula Keali’i O Nālani, Kanani has competed and carried out as a hula dancer all around the entire world for 25+ decades. She has received the titles of Overlook E Hula Mau, Skip Iā ‘Oe E Ka Lā and Miss out on Hula Hō’ike Hawai’i. She is an yearly competitor at the Merrie Monarch Hula Pageant in Hilo, Hawai’i and has most notably executed at the Hollywood Bowl, Disneyland and Osaka-jō Hall in Osaka, Japan.

Randy Drake (DRUMS) commenced taking part in drums at age twelve. A New Hampshire indigenous, he attended the University of North Texas and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Audio degree in Jazz Scientific studies. He received his Learn of New music degree in Jazz Experiments from California State College, Lengthy Seaside. He has toured Japan with guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka, performed throughout the United States with Englebert Humperdinck, and also done, recorded and toured with jazz-pop artist Daniel Ho and Kilauea. Randy proceeds to record and complete with Daniel Ho, Jennifer Leitham and San Gabriel Seven. LA Moments jazz critic Don Heckman commented, “Shelly Berg, working in emphatic unity with Chuck Berghofer and Randy Drake, affirms that jazz can (and ought to) touch the senses, the thoughts and the head.”