2025 Spring/Summer Tour

Greetings from Woodstock, NY! I am a little late with sending this newsletter as my tour has already started in NYC with an amazing packed show opening for Unheard-Of Ensemble. I met them a few years ago in San Antonio, TX as a participant for their composer workshop. You can listen to the music here, which is very different from what I am composing now and my first foray into writing for a professional ensemble.

I am now hitting the road with my nearest and dearest Frank Meadows and Eli Wallace for a four day tour MAW mini tour kicking off two months of travel throughout the U.S., Canada, South Korea and Japan.

This will be my first Asia tour and I am excited humbly attempt speaking Japanese after an intense four semesters of study at the University of Hawai'i. 日本の友達、挨拶してください . And secondly, the incredible saxophonist, Sunjae Lee, set up some amazing shows for me in Seoul while I am there participating in the International Gugak Workshop. I'll be working closely with local traditional musicians over the course of two weeks learning basic skills of playing gayageum and geomungo and also playing some experimental improvisation concerts with musicians on the scene.

I also found this cute sketch I made 20 years ago of a Japanese boy band, UNBALANCE, that I befriended during a study program in Sapporo. It 20 years almost to the day since I arrived in Sapporo for that exchange program.

Today MAW is off to Maine. The summer itinerary is posted below. I looking forward to seeing friends and meeting new folks. Please don't be shy if you are at one of these concerts. Hugs!

U.S East Coast

May 24th Brooklyn, NY - Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, solo opening for Unheard-Of Ensemble "Ecologies Series"

May 27th Mt Tremper, NY - Art @ Tremper ​

May 28th Portland, ME - w/ MAW Apohodian Theater

May 29th Brattleboro VT, Epsilon Spires

May 30th Waterbury, VT - w/ MAW Phoenix Gallery

New Music on the Point

June 1st to 16th Lake Dunmore, VT

Ackerley Solo Canada Micro-mini Tour

June 18th Toronto, ON - Sellers and Newel

June 20th Montreal, QB - Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival​

International Gugak Workshop

June 22 to July 5th Seoul Korea

Ackerley South Korea/Japan Tour

​​​June 28th Seoul, South Korea - Samadi Lounge w/ Sunjae Lee and Kikanju Baku

July 7th Seoul, South Korea - DIP Industries with Jeonhyeon Joo

July 9th Sapporo, Japan - Coo

July 11 Tokyo, Japan - Bar Isshee w/ Ayako Kanda

July 12th Osaka, Japan - T-Bone w/ Ayako Kanda

July 13th Kobe, Japan -  EAUUU w/ Ayako Kanda and Loui Yoshigaki

July 14th Osaka, Japan - Satone w/ Ayako Kanda

July 15th Kobe, Japan - Big Apple w/ Ayako Kanda

July 16th Yokohama, Japan - Chat Noir w/ Kei Koganemaru

July 18th Chiba, Japan - Jazz Candy w/ Tatsuhisa Yamamoto

July 19th Tokyo, Japan - Otooto w/ Masayo Koketsu

July 20th Tokyo, Japan - Ftarri w/ Tetuzi Akiyama​

Impulse Festival

July 29th to August 2nd Los Angeles, CA