[NewMusicEvents] Shoko Hikage solo, Saturday w/ special tea menu

[Philip Gelb]

Saturday, June 14
8 pm
location: Private residence in Oakland
$70/person
limited seating for 17
only a few seats left!
Performer: Shoko Hikage - koto

Ok, this is certainly the most ambitious menu of the almost 2 years  
of this series of dinner/concerts.  Tea lovers will rejoice at this  
one; Donna and Nez of http://chadoen.com have supplied me with some  
truly amazing high quality green teas from Japan and oolongs and  
jasmine teas from China. All dishes will have tea as an ingredient  
and Nez and Donna will be serving many different teas through the  
evening.

tea 1
cold infused karigane

soup
ochazuke (using genmaicha green tea; a Japanese variety combining 2  
kinds of tea and roasted rice))
(brown rice, umeboshi plum, kaiware (daikon sprouts), wakame  
(seaweed), toasted sesame seeds with a stock made from kombu, shitake  
and genmaicha

tea 2
cold infused Kyoto bancha

salad
cucumber wrapped in daikon slices with fried oolong tea leaves and  
apricot sauce

tea 3
Sakura/Aojiso/Gold Leaf tea  (yeah, there really are gold flecks in  
this tea!)

entree
green tea noodles (matcha)
seitan with spiced plum sauce
daikon pickled with Shincha  and cherry blossoms
gyokuro tea leaves with shoyu

tea 4
an Oolong from Taiwan called Oriental Beauty

dessert
matcha 3 ways
matcha cake w/ maple matcha ice cream and matcha covered raspberries

tea 5
blooming tea served in glass

Performing this night will be the incredible koto player, Shoko  
Hikage. Shoko is originally from Akita Japan where she grew up  
playing koto. After College she became a house student of the great  
avant garde koto players, Kazue and Tadao Sawai. 10 years ago, she  
moved to San Francisco. Shoko and i  co-founded a group, "Natto"  
several years ago which has released 2 highly acclaimed CDs and  
toured in the states and Japan


and coming up later this summer and fall on the series:
August 23
Jon Raskin/Liz Albee du et
limited seating for 19
$60 per person
byob
menusoup
homemade tofu w/ corn and seweed

appetizer
polanos stuffed with roasted corn/pepper relish
blue corn bread

entree
stuffed eggplant

dessert
peach cobbler w/  blueberry pinot sorbet

Saturday, September 13
limited seating for 19
$60 per person
byob
Marcus Shelby - bass, Darren Johnston - trumpet
menu tba

Saturday, October 3
Michael Manring - electric bass
limited seating for 19
$60 per person
byob
menu tba but dessert will be apples stuffed with walnuts, raisins and  
spices baked in chardonnay

Philip Gelb
vegetarian chef
shakuhachi player, teacher
phil at philipgelb.com
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