{"id":1467,"date":"2022-02-09T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:09:14","slug":"taiko-kenny-endo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/taiko-kenny-endo\/","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s Got The Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The good vibrations keep coming from taiko virtuoso Kenny Endo, who lives life marching to the beat of his own drum.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Who else can say they\u2019ve performed for Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, have a day proclaimed to them in Honolulu and, most recently, be named to the United States Artists\u2019 2022 class of Fellows? None other than triple threat Kenny Endo, one of the world\u2019s most prolific taiko performers, composers and teachers.<\/p>\n

Those grand feats only brush the surface of all that Endo has accomplished. And while the latter is only the most recent, it was an honor, nonetheless. It was just last week when Endo was recognized next to 63 fellow artists across 10 creative disciplines, including architecture and design, dance, film, traditional arts, visual art and writing. The organization at the helm of the project, United States Artists, puts an emphasis on supporting a broad register of creative people \u2014 an effort even more pertinent now given that some artistic avenues, like Endo\u2019s performing arts, have taken a backseat due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\t\t