To Sendai With Love: A benefit event for Japan

I am deeply grateful for all who attended the event, To Sendai With Love. Thank you to all of the artists who offered songs, prayers and dances. A heartfelt thanks to our featured guest artist, Keishi Yazawa from Sendai, Japan. You allowed us to connect to the land and people of Sendai through the taiko drum and your sincere stories of healing and hope. May we continue to send our love and prayers to Japan. May my brother, Stephen Sato and his new non-profit organization, KASA: Kindness America - Sendai Alliance be blessed with guidance and support. To learn more about KASA: Kindness America - Sendai Alliance look us up on facebook and visit: www.kasacommunity.org Thank you Vanessie's, Smokin' Bachi Taiko, Santa Fe JIN and KASA board members.

See highlights from KASA's August 11th Benefit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v​=kxssDnjwOm0

New CD release party!

Friday, August 26th, 2011
Madi's CD release party.
6pm at the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Fe.
505 Camino de las Marquez 505-983-5022
I have completed my new CD, Return to the River, which includes songs from Sendai, Japan as well as, my original songs. Featuring taiko drummers, Kenny Endo and Koji Nakamura, koto by Yukiko Matsuyama,and shakuhachi by David Wheeler. Produced by John Rangel. Recorded live at a Zen monastery in Crestone, Colorado.

A Benefit Event for Japan in Santa Fe, NM

KASA presents a benefit event for Japan on August 11th, 6pm-8pm, at Vanessie in Santa Fe, NM. Our intention is to raise awareness of the current situation in Sendai following the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. The evening will feature live performances by taiko drummer, Keishi Yazawa (Sendai native), vocal artist Madi Sato, Smokin' Bachi Taiko Ensemble and Shigin singer Michiko Pierce. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

Special thanks to Santa Fe Jin, Vanessie and Smoking Bachi Taiko.

KASA board members will travel to Japan this October to locate families needing assistance. We are focusing our efforts on small villages like the community of Rokugo to help rebuild lives and raise spirits!

Thank you for your interest in KASA! For more information about our future plans, contact Stephen Sato or Madi Sato.

KASA's mailing address:
8225 Fairmount Dr. 1-203
Denver, CO 80247

Stephen Sato
303.548.8127
stephenleesato@gmail.com

Madi Sato
505.660.2526
madisato@gmail.com

Fulfill your singing desires and experience the healing art of singing in a choir.

Happy Summer to all!

Awaken your authentic voice and experience the healing art of singing in a choir.

Join this spirited group of women who are setting their hearts on fire with sacred music from around the globe. Santa Fe Women's Sacred World Music Choir directed by Madi Sato.

Summer Session: August 18th - September 8th, $120 early $136 regular
Fall/Winter: October 13th - January 29th, $260 early, $300 regular
All Classes are Thursdays 5:00-6:30PM Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de las Marquez
To learn more and register please visit: www.MadiSato.com or call 505-660-2526

Yours in Song,

Madi Sato
CHOIR TESTIMONIAL
"Thank you for creating a place where I can feel safe and supported in expressing myself. Even though the choir is a group setting you have this rare and wonderful gift of making each one of us feel that our voice is unique and beautiful and worthy of hearing and sharing with others. Often times I would come to choir after a long and chaotic day at work feeling either exhausted or completely stressed out but I would leave an hour and a half later feeling calm, serene, and connected to not only myself but also to rest of the community. I think of the choir as medicine for the soul and I really cherish that time with you and the other women."
Allison Moore, 2011 choir member

Private Vocal and Sound Healing Sessions with Madi Sato

Expand  your vocal ablities  through private lessons with Madi.  She employs a combination of  traditional and innovative techniques to help you awaken your authentic voice.  

Madi  studied  under jazz legend  Chris Calloway for years and has  substantial knowledge of  traditional Japanese music as well as  sacred music of many cultures. Experience the healing energies of ancient tones and indigenous sounds  from around the world. Each sound healing session is  oriented to the specific needs of the individual. Madi's  experience with sound masters of many backgrounds  and lineages combines with her intuitive ability  to sense the best process for inner transformation.

These private sessions  bring wholeness to the mind and body and joy to the spirit.

To schedule a session call: 505-660-2526

                   $80 for a one hour session

                 www.MadiSato.com

Santa Fe Women's Sacred World Music Choir Summer Sessions beginning in June.

http://madisato.com/class_choir.html

Awaken your authentic voice and experience the joy of singing with the Santa Fe Women’s Sacred World Music Choir directed by Madi Sato. Learn to use your voice for self-healing and explore the multi-dimensional art of singing indigenous, sacred music from around the world. 

Early Summer Session – 6 weeks

June 9-July 14 , $180 early $200 regular

Late Summer Session – 4 weeks

Aug. 18-Sept. 8, $120 early $136 regular

All Classes are Thursdays 5:00-6:30PM

Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de las Marquez

To register: 505-660-2526

My new CD, Return to the River

I spent the day in the studio with my producer, John Rangel....getting closer to completion. As I sing these songs I feel my hands in the rice fields of Sendai, walking with Obaachan to the temple, sipping Ocha with family on the tatami mats, being dressed in kimono by the women of my family, cleaning the ancestors altar and offering food, the big baths, watching the dragonfly around my father's grave, looking at the milky way in Sendai and talking to my father, coming into motherhood, singing shigin with Koji San on taiko, singing in circle with my choir and meeting the ONE, my love.

I dedicate this CD to my father, Tadaharu  Sato (1948-1980).

I am going to Boulder, CO this week to sing in a benefit concert for Sendai at Naropa.  Sawagi Benefit.  See you there!Japan Benefit, Naropa University Boulder, CO