Basic Odaiko for beginners with Joe Small Cost: $40 ($35 if we can get around 20 people) Joe Small is a solo taiko performer, a performing member of pioneering solo taiko artist Hayshi Eitetsu’s elite professional ensemble, Fu-Un no Kai, and a member of the taiko group Prota.

QUITIPLAS IN THE POCKET with Yeeman Mui Cost: $50. It is a piece for solo improvisation on the slant style (naname) drums. The poly-meter base beat is adapted from the Venezuelan Quitiplas music with a choreographed solo cue that focuses on creating different tonalities of the drum

Eugenio Arango guests teaching for Juan Carlos. Cost: $12 ea. class Three classes every Sunday starting from Aug 7.