NATC 2025 Phoenix: Full Schedule

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8:00am MDT

7 Essential Sounds for Chappa LIMITED

Monday September 1, 2025 8:00am - 10:00am MDT

For your more freedom musical express, “Chappa” will be became the best partner for you.
It will make you to moving around on stage and adding some of another color for your team numbers.
Contrary of seems, it is very difficult to handle for making good sound.

A famous Chappa player can control different over 200 sounds.
Ringtaro introduces the most essential 7 sounds in this workshop.
After workshop, you may create your original sound illimitably with your sensibility!

Prerequisite/What to bring: Please bring your Chappa if you have it.

Speakers

Ringtaro Tateishi

Artistic Director, CHIKIRI & The School of Taiko

RINGTARO TATEISHIArtistic Director of “CHIKIRI”Principal of “The School of TAIKO”Co-founder of Japan Creative ArtsRingtaro is an awardee of the 2022 Heritage Arts Apprenticeship Program as a master artist by the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions, Humanities Washington... Read More →

Monday September 1, 2025 8:00am - 10:00am MDT
213B

Workshop, Foundational

10:30am MDT

Shishimai (for Intermediate/Advanced) LIMITED

Monday September 1, 2025 10:30am - 12:30pm MDT

213B

Participants will learn the movements of Wakayama Ryu Edo Kotobuki Jishi, the traditional celebratory shishimai (lion dance) of Tokyo, more in depths to have better understanding on how it will be done in a performance setting.

Prerequisite/What to bring: Participants should have taken one or more lessons/workshops in the past, in Wakayama Ryu style.

Speakers

Ai Matsuda

Born and raised in Japan until the age of 16, Ai Matsuda (she/her) moved to Hawaii to study English. There, she began to play taiko with Hawaii Matsuri Taiko, led by Mrs. Faye Komagata – her aunt.She then had the opportunities to learn from Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka of the San... Read More →

Monday September 1, 2025 10:30am - 12:30pm MDT
213B

Workshop, Focus