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SANTA ROSA, CA. ~ Mat- suri! Japanese Arts Festival will return to Juilliard Park and the SOFA Arts District of downtown Santa Rosa on Sunday, May 7, from 11am 5pm.


to its


Celebrating eighth


year, Mat- suri! has be- come one of the signature cultural


fes-


tivals in the North Bay. The event is organized by So-


noma County Matsuri, whose mission is


to offer deep in-


sights into Japanese culture by providing a forum for Bay Area


artisans, artists, and performers of Japanese traditional arts to showcase their talents. Perfor- mances and demonstra- tions at the admission- free Japa- nese fes- tival take


will place through-


out the day in


Park and will


Juilliard feature


taiko drum- ming, tradi- tional dance and music,


martial arts, Kyogen theater performance,


tea ceremony,


and more. Back by popular demand, there will also be a children’s activity booth and


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mochitsuki—the pounding of sweet rice into cakes using a wooden mallet. Complement- ing the festivities and perfor- mances will be a variety of ex- hibitors and vendors featuring Japanese arts, crafts, and food. Matsuri! Japanese Arts Fes- tival is partially funded through the City of Santa Rosa’s Com- munity Promotions Funds. Additional


sponsors include


the Consulate General of Ja- pan in San Francisco, Julia L. Grant Donor Advised Fund of Community


Foundation So-


noma County, Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League, the Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Exchange Bank - Sebastopol, North Bay Bohe- mian, and many other support- ers as well as Upbeat Times for publishing this announcement! All proceeds from the raffle


held at the event will go to the Matsuri Scholarship Fund, which supports individuals and organizations in Sonoma Coun- ty who study or teach Japanese culture in the community. “The festival continues to grow each year, thanks to the strong sup- port of our sponsors and the entire community. We are hon- ored to have the opportunity to contribute to the cultural rich-


TM Matsuri! Japanese Arts Festival Returns May 7th!


ness and diversity of Sonoma County by showcasing authen- tic Japanese arts, music, the- ater, and entertainment,” says Henry Kaku, Sonoma County Matsuri Board President. As a prelude to the festival, Sonoma County Matsuri will offer a special evening concert by Grand Master Riley Koho Lee and Elliot Kallen, highly acclaimed shakuhachi players, on Saturday, May 6, at 7pm. Titled Bells Ringing in an Empty Sky: An Evening of Music for the Shakuhachi, the performance will be held at the Church of One Tree in Santa Rosa. Tickets are $15 advance sale and $20 at the door. For more information about Matsuri! Japanese Arts Festi- val and the pre festival concert, please visit www.sonomamat- suri.com or www.facebook. com/sonomamatsuri/, or email- info@sonomamatsuri.com.


Sonoma County Matsuri is a non-profit organization based in Santa Rosa. Its mission is to share and promote Japanese arts and culture by providing educational opportunities and enhanced intercultural under- standing in the greater Bay Area.


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Gaylord Jackson Perry (born September 15, 1938) is a former Major League Baseball right- handed pitcher. He pitched from 1962 to 1983 for eight different teams. During a 22-year baseball career, Perry compiled 314 wins, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. Perry, a five-time All-Star, was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in each league, winning it in the American League in 1972 with the Cleveland Indians and in the National League in 1978 with the San Diego Padres. He is also distinguished, along with his brother Jim, for being the second- winningest brother combination in baseball history—second only to the knuckleballing Niekro broth- ers, Phil and Joe. While pitching for the Seattle Mariners in 1982, Perry became the fifteenth mem- ber of the 300 win club. Despite Perry’s notoriety for doctoring baseballs (e.g. throwing a spitball), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them on a regular basis – he even went so far as to title his 1974 autobiography ‘Me and the Spitter’ .


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Like most pitchers, Perry was not renowned for his hitting ability, and in his sophomore season of 1963, his manager Alvin Dark is said to have joked, “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”


There are other variants on the story, but either way, on July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career.


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