April 28th
9:26 PM
9:26 PM
December 22nd
10:02 PM
10:02 PM
2taiko are leaving Montréal… Nous quittons Montréal…
We are leaving Montréal sometime in the Springtime, indefinitely… So please come and share our music with us while you can :)
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Nous quittons toutes les deux Montréal au printemps, pour une durée indéfinie… Ne ratez pas nos derniers spectacles à Montréal :)
9:58 PM
Workshop at Flow Space studio / Atelier au studio Flow Space - Montréal - 03 Dec 2011
November 3rd
10:31 PM
10:31 PM
Past shows / Spectacles passés
16-01-12 Casa Del Popolo (Montreal), with Shane Connolly, Toby Kuhn, Ignatius Kim and Gambletron
31-12-2011 Loft Party (Montreal), New Year’s Eve
18-12-2011La Lumière du Mile End (Montreal), Solstice Celebration
02-11-2011 La Bulle au Carré (Montreal), La Soirée des Bretons
01-11-2011 La Lumière du Mile End (Montreal), El Dia de los Muertos
13-10-2011 La Bulle au Carré (Montreal)
17-09-2011 Shelburne Orchards (Vermont), Ringo Matsuri
26-08-2011 La Lumière du Mile End (Montreal), 3rd Year Anniversary Party
06-08-2011 L’Alize (Montreal), J Fest+
04-08-2011 La Bulle au Carré (Montreal)
31-07-2011 Royal Phoenix (Montreal), Cabaret Faux Pas
24-07-2011 Monastiraki (Montreal), Sunday “micro-concerts”
07-07-2011 La Bulle au Carré (Montreal)
02-06-2011 La Bulle au Carré (Montreal)
20-05-2011 Ahimsa Yoga (Montreal)
05-05-2011 La Bulle au Carré (Montreal)
28-04-11 Le Drugstore (Montreal), MTL4japan
01-04-2011 Société des arts technologiques [SAT] (Montreal), Tamuke: Offrandes pour le Japon / Offerings for Japan
23-03-2011 Club Soda (Montreal), Japon 2011, je me souviens…
01-11-2010 La Lumière du Mile End (Montreal), La Journée des Morts / Day of the Dead celebration
September 19th
11:58 PM
11:58 PM
2taiko are Yumi Célia, Alison Roe and 2 (or 3) taiko - large, beautiful Japanese drums.
Yumi started playing taiko growing up in Tokyo, in a local group based at the shrine of Nezu, and Alison began drumming in Scotland, touring full-time with the UK’s leading taiko group. After playing for several years in different taiko groups in Montréal, they did a (very) small show together in a Mile End café in late 2010 and this was the beginning.
Yumi and Alison combined their different taiko styles to develop a varied set of original pieces, and now perform regularly in venues across Montréal. They enjoy the challenge of playing as a duo and the versatility and mobility that affords, in working with other musicians and performers, and in taking their taiko to unlikely corners of the city, so far only once having the police called on them.
Taiko’s an exhilarating art form, visually and musically powerful, and 2taiko have a naturally expressive and vivacious style.
It takes 2 to taiko…
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Yumi started playing taiko growing up in Tokyo, performing in seasonal festivals with the taiko group of Nezu shrine, Ryujin Daiko. As a teenager, she joined Todoroki Daiko, a local group specializing in bon-daiko drumming, which is a particular style played to accompany the traditional street dances of Tokyo’s summer evenings. In Montréal, she became a member of the city’s resident taiko group, Arashi Daiko, and performed with them until 2010. She returns to Tokyo occasionally to get advice from her mentor, Hiroshi Motofuji.
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Alison began drumming in Scotland with Europe’s leading taiko group, Mugenkyo, touring and teaching full-time and performing at theatres and festivals throughout the UK. Since moving to Canada, she has performed and composed with various bands and taiko groups in Montréal, as well as returning to Scotland now and again to play with the taiko-based multi-instrumental group, iSSHO, which she started with friends there in 2007.
