John John Festival profile

    Three piece Japanese Irish & pop music band
    - fiddle/vocals, guitar/vocals, and bodhran -
    John John Festival is fast becoming most popular Irish band in Japan.
    With rhythm, melody and emotion in a genuine groove their mutual ease
    and happiness makes the audience happy too.
    “Make us and them happy” is their musical mind set.
    Their story began Jan 2010
    and in the short time since they have released 4 albums,
    joined 3 other musicians' albums, many festivals,
    also overseas festivals too.

    illawarra folk festival (Australia, 2014)
    Celtic Colours(Canada 2016)
    Since June 2014, took 2 years break, they come back in 2016.
    The new CD is coming up soon, produced by Shinsuke Sasakura.

     

     

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    member

     

    John* (Mana Okubo) : fiddle, vocal

     

    Annie (Hirofumi Nakamura) : guitar, vocal

     

    ToshiBodhran : bodhran, percussion

     

    John John Festival CD

    JohnJohnFestival 1st album "JohnJohnFestival"

     

    01　E waltz

    02　annie's love

    03　JJF

    04　sally gally

    05　above & beyond

    06　canoa / breton

    07　selma

     

    1,3,4,5,6(breton),7 traditional tunes

    2,6(canoa) original tunes

    track 2 composed by annie, track 6 canoa composed by toshi

     

    guests

    Rutsuko Kumasaka：piano accordion(on track4,5,7)

    Tomosuke Tajima：drums,percussion(on track3,4,7)

    Koji Shimakawa：hung drums(on track5)

     

    designed by Reiko Nishimura

    recorded by Kazunari Motoki&Koji Shimakawa(cosmic soul) 

    mixed&mastered by Kazunari Motoki

     

    itunes down load   (try to listen!!)

    JohnJohnFestival 2nd album "Songs & Tunes"

     

    01　Futari no kotoba   (music and words by Toshi Motooka)

    02　Hey John Joe   (music by Toshi Motooka & John John Festival)

    03　Second star   (by G.Tate/ trad) 

    04　Christmas eve   (trad)

    05　Omoide no uta   (music and words by Toshi Motooka)

    06　One two polka   (by Toshi Motooka / Mick McAuley / Nathaniel Gow)

    07　I was wrong in soul   (music and words by Toshi Motooka)

    08　A whole life of a bird   (trad / by Josephine Keegan / Preston Howard)

    09   Aube Mauve   ( by Gordon Gunn / Soig Siberil)

    10   Old film story   (music=trad "Easy and Slow" / words by Toshi Motooka )

     

    guests

    Tomosuke Tajima：drums,percussion chorus (on track2,3,4,5,6,7,10)

    Azumi Miyata：contrabass, chorus (on track1,5,7,10)

    Naomi Nakahara：uilleann pipes, whistles, chorus (on track3,4,6,10)

    Reiko Nishimura : fiddle (on track3)

     

    designed and illustration by Reiko Nishimura

    recorded by Satoru Fujii, Shinsuke Sasakura

    mixed&mastered by Satoru Fujii

     

    itunes down load  (try to listen!)

    SASAKLA & John John Festival 1st album "Trek Trek"

     

    01  The garden of cranberry  (music and words by SASAKLA)

    02  The water is wide  (trad)

    03  The floating mountains  (by James Fagan / trad / Gordon MacLean)

    04  Trek Trek  (music and words by SASAKLA)

    05  By the time it gets dark  (music and words by Sandy Denny)

    06  The sailing song  (music and words by SASAKLA)

     

    SASAKLA : vocal, guitar

    john* : fiddle, percussion, chorus

    annie : guitar, mandolin, accordion, chorus

    toshibodhran : bodhran, percussion, chorus

    Tomosuke Tajima : percussion

     

    Mixed by Shinsuke Sasakura

    Mastered by Toru Kotetsu

    Illustrated by danny

    Designed by Ryu Mieno

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