In 2020 and 2021: Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic, all CD release events being planned for Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles have been cancelled.
July 20, 2019 1-4 pm: Chinese Historical Society of America, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco
June 30, 2019, 1-4 pm: CD release event: Charlie Chin and Philip Kan Gotanda at the San Mateo Public Library, 55 W. 3rd Ave. in San Mateo
May 18, 2019, 3-5 pm: CD release event: Charlie Chin at Eastwind Books, 2066 University Ave. in Berkeley.
In 1979, the Japantown Art and Media Workshop (JAM) put on a concert featuring Charlie Chin and Philip Kan Gotanda. Charlie was part of the first Asian American "movement" musical group along with Chris Kando Iijima and Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and performed songs about Asian Americans and their communities starting in the early 1970's. He is also a well known storyteller who was living in New York City at the time. Philip Kan Gotanda is an internationally acclaimed Asian American playwright who was writing and performing Asian American songs, some of which he later incorporated into his musicals and plays. This concert has now been released as two CDs, which Eastwind Books and other select locations are selling. To celebrate the release of the CDs, the artists would like to share some thoughts about the concert and their experiences as Asian American musicians and artists, and to play a few songs and sign CDs.
Nov. 27, 2016: Second special CD release event held at the Do Be Do Bar in Yokohama, Japan, sponsored by MUSIC CAMP, Inc.
Nov. 6, 2016: The CD is released in Japan with a special release event sponsored by MUSIC CAMP, Inc.
Sept. 24, 2016: Some members of the band will participate in a discussion on Sept. 24, 2016, 1 pm, at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JamSJ), 535 N. 5th Street, San Jose. This topic of this discussion is the 1970s Sansei Music Scene in San Jose. Although this is not a public event, members of the public may attend this event.
Sept. 10, 2016: The CD is released at a reunion of the Lake Sequoia Retreat church summer camp, reunion held at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Palo Alto.
July 20, 2019 1-4 pm: Chinese Historical Society of America, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco
June 30, 2019, 1-4 pm: CD release event: Charlie Chin and Philip Kan Gotanda at the San Mateo Public Library, 55 W. 3rd Ave. in San Mateo
May 18, 2019, 3-5 pm: CD release event: Charlie Chin at Eastwind Books, 2066 University Ave. in Berkeley.
In 1979, the Japantown Art and Media Workshop (JAM) put on a concert featuring Charlie Chin and Philip Kan Gotanda. Charlie was part of the first Asian American "movement" musical group along with Chris Kando Iijima and Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and performed songs about Asian Americans and their communities starting in the early 1970's. He is also a well known storyteller who was living in New York City at the time. Philip Kan Gotanda is an internationally acclaimed Asian American playwright who was writing and performing Asian American songs, some of which he later incorporated into his musicals and plays. This concert has now been released as two CDs, which Eastwind Books and other select locations are selling. To celebrate the release of the CDs, the artists would like to share some thoughts about the concert and their experiences as Asian American musicians and artists, and to play a few songs and sign CDs.
Nov. 27, 2016: Second special CD release event held at the Do Be Do Bar in Yokohama, Japan, sponsored by MUSIC CAMP, Inc.
Nov. 6, 2016: The CD is released in Japan with a special release event sponsored by MUSIC CAMP, Inc.
Sept. 24, 2016: Some members of the band will participate in a discussion on Sept. 24, 2016, 1 pm, at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JamSJ), 535 N. 5th Street, San Jose. This topic of this discussion is the 1970s Sansei Music Scene in San Jose. Although this is not a public event, members of the public may attend this event.
Sept. 10, 2016: The CD is released at a reunion of the Lake Sequoia Retreat church summer camp, reunion held at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Palo Alto.