Category: The Pan-Tones
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New Pan-Tones videos
New arrangements and videos from our October shows- Howl’s Moving Castle theme, Rosemary’s Baby theme and the most famous of all Peruvian tunes… El Condor Pasa. Thank you Robert Hokamp for recording and making these videos! All our videos on our Pan-Tones page here.
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The Pan-Tones update
This Japanese set came along in a very roundabout way… The Pan-Tones were asked to play at the Denton Folk Fest on a weekend where Robert was unavailable. Around the same time, I had started practicing singing. Some of the songs I started singing were in Japanese, which reminded me of other songs that were…
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The Pan-Tones: Knots-kashi (懐かしい)
“Natsukashii” translates to “nostalgia” in English, and is pronounced “knots-kashi.” I’ve arranged a new set for the Pan-Tones of music from my experience growing up as a Japanese American in the 90s/00s. Here’s the set list so far: -Sailor Moon theme song-Totoro theme song-いつも何度でも (Always with you), from Spirited Away-人生のメリーゴーランド (Merry-Go-Round of Life), from Howl’s…
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The Pan-Tones new videos
So excited about these awesome videos taken by Larry L. Hill (YouTube: Animals Mistaken For Monsters)!
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The Pan-Tones at Rubber Gloves
Tomorrow night, Tuesday 6/21 at 6PM! Our fantastic alto player Courtney Pham recently moved to pursue a DMA, so we’ve had some personnel changes. Jessica Schury is playing alto, and Connor Kent joins us on drums and percussion! What an awesome group of musicians to play with! I love working with this group- arranging, rehearsing,…
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The Pan-Tones debut
Two successful gigs in one night! It was a whirlwind, but so fun. We played in basically two opposite situations, which was fascinating. The first gig was at the Texas Flute Festival to a basically empty auditorium which was relatively big, with brick walls, and acoustically dry. The second gig (two hours after the first)…