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Date: Saturday, 21 May, 2011       Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
LA City Hall (Front Lawn)
1st Street & Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Map of LA City Hall (Front Lawn), 1st Street & Main Street

Come support the festival - Come to LA City Hall front Lawn (1st & Main) and enjoy fun entertainment - make new friends!!! Learn about the "NEW" Festival"Blossoms in the Fall" in September.

Fundraise for Cherry Blossom & Japan Rebuild!!! We need your support & help!!!

Emcee/Performer Miyuki Matsunaga
Performances by Matsutoyo Kai & Minyo Station....

Miyuki Matsunaga is a Japanese actress in Los Angeles who also dances, sings, does voiceover and emcee, teach yoga and pilates, and directs for the stage. She is also a performance artist with her own Japanese dance style called GETA DANCE, which blends elements of traditional Japanese dance, modern dance, and her original haiku poetry.

Matsutoyo Kai performances passes on the Traditional Music of Japan and leaves a Japanese Music Legacy giving performances in Japanese Folk and Classical Music led by Artistic Director and founder Matsutoyo Sato. Part of their purpose is to provide instruction in singing, shamisen, taiko and ka-ne.

Minyo Station "The Direction of the Wind" Japanese Folk Music, as envisioned by Music Director and lead guitarist, Yu Ooka. They are in the forefront of a movement to infuse a New Sound into traditional Japanese Folk Music as interpreted by a new generation of artists a multi-cultural twist that melds Western elements of rock, R&B and jazz with the melodies and structure of Minyo compositions passed down for generation through many village sof Japan.

FREE PARKING under City Hall (enter off Los Angeles Street) directions to parking on the website www.CherryBlossomFestivalSoCal.org

Wendy Anderson
WOW! Event Productions
626-683-8243
wowproductions2@earthlink.net

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