5PM tickets, doors open at 5pm, show at 6:30pm.  for 8pm tickets, 8pm doors open, show starts at 8:30pm

Drum maestro AKIRA TANA has performed with many of the top names in the jazz world. HIs group, OTONOWA was founded in 2013 to tour and raise funds for the communities devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. The project pays homage to the victims of the natural disaster by presenting traditional and pop Japanese songs that Tana and Otonowa completely transform into modern American jazz instrumentals. Some of the tunes have been part of Japanese culture for generations, and even the pop tunes would be familiar to a majority of Japanese people.The Otonowa musicians are a unique blend of Japanese and Japanese  Americans, and the seamless blending of these disparate art forms is a testament to the cross-cultural mastery of these musicians and to the adaptive…