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Stay tuned and check back often for updates, more sections and new features! Also,
please please feel free to send us any comments or suggestions on how to improve the site!
If you need to reach us, send an email to yamatai@cornell.edu and we will get back to you.
Upcoming Events
Our Fall Concert
Hi everyone! We are pleased to announce the details of our Fall concert:
Shinka: Evolution
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
7:00PM, doors open at 6:30PM
at Statler Auditorium
Tickets are now on sale for $5 in advance from any member and $7 at the door. You can
also reserve tickets by emailing yamatai@cornell.edu. There
will be lots of loud drums and awesomeness. It's going to be exciting
and we hope to see you there!
Posted: 11.1.2009
Campus Performances
Welcome (back) to the Fall 2009 semester! If you didn't catch our performances during Orientation or Clubfest, stay tuned for where you can watch
our next performance. To join the listserve for updates and events:
-Send an email to "yamatai-announcement-l-request@cornell.edu"
-Leave the subject blank
-The body of the message should be just be "join"
-If you successfully join the list, you will receive an email confirmation
Posted: 9.1.2009
Recent News
THANK YOU AMERICA! THANK YOU CORNELL! THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Thank you everyone who came to the Bonten concert in Bailey Hall tonight! We almost sold out (about 1,200 attendees) and had one of the best audiences Bonten has ever had. Thank you guys for cheering and laughing at all the right times as our Yamatai seniors performed with Bonten and our eloquent speaker and musical director Eva Kestner '09 realized her life's dream of performing as part of Bonten. We'd like to thank Professor Grame Bailey for his stirring introductory speech, the volunteers and members of JUSA who helped with the tickets and ushering, and the Bailey Hall staff for making everything run smoothly. We would also like to thank all the organizations who helped us make this concert a success and helped us promote the concert with our aggressive poster and emailing campaign. And lastly, we would like to thank BONTEN (and special guests Jun Murayama on the synthesizer and Kaoru Watanabe on the Japanese flute) for packing up all those drums in Tokyo, Japan and coming all the way to Ithaca to perform. The members of Bonten who performed were Masataka Kobayashi, Momo Kobayashi, Sae Konishi, Hiroyuki Saitou, Ayu Chiba, Jin Onodera, and Eva Kestner '09. We hope you will remember this concert for a long time to come and THANK YOU FOR COMING!
Posted: 3.6.2009
Performance Requests
There is now a form for performance requests!! If you have a request, please use this form... it makes things a lot easier for us!
Posted: 03.13.2008
Our Most Recent Concert
BONTEN: Live at Bailey Hall
We would like to thank everyone who came to the Bonten concert on March 6, 2009 and watched our seniors perform with
Bonten during the concert!