SMILEY LIVE! Mike Penny -- Tsugaru Shamisen Performer
Schedule
Wed Nov 16 2022 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
The Contemporary Club | Redlands, CA
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The A.K. Smiley Public Library presentsSMILEY LIVE!
Mike Penny - Tsugaru Shamisen Performer
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 6:30 pm
A.K. Smiley Public Library Contemporary Club
173 S. Eureka St., Redlands, CA 92373
This free event is part of a growing series of musical events called Smiley LIVE! open to the public.
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Mike Penny is an award-winning Tsugaru Shamisen performer and composer from Los Angeles, CA. He first studied shamisen in 2004-2005 in Santa Cruz, CA with Kevin Kmetz, and later received the Japan Foundation's Uchida Fellowship, which allowed him to study in Tokyo with the highly respected Tsugaru shamisen Sensi Fukushi Toyoaki in 2007-2008.
Penny has given hundreds of public performances and workshops throughout Japan and the U.S., both as a solo artist, as well as a member of various ensembles. Through his many performances and viral video performances on YouTube, he has gained a following for his unprecedented style of shamisen playing, which combines traditional and extended techniques in a variety of musical contexts, including jazz, Balkan folk, Western classical, and popular music in a fusion of both east and west, past and future.
In recent years, Mike has been active as a studio musician, contributing his shamisen stylings to projects such as Sony PlayStation's Ghost of Tsushima's original soundtrack (2022) and more.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MikePennyOrchestra
Bandcamp: www.mikepennyorchestra.bandcamp.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/mikepenny01
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mikepenny01
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Smiley LIVE! is a series of monthly free concerts featuring a variety of musical genres sponsored by the A.K. Smiley Public Library. The Contemporary Club is located at 173 S. Eureka Street, behind the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, just south of the Library and Smiley Park. For further information please call 909-798-7565.
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