Alicia Bay Laurel - Live in Japan CD

Alicia Bay Laurel's 12 concert tours in Japan, starting in 2006, brought her into collaboration with many other musicians, dancers, and event producers, resulting in some astonishing events, most notably an all-day peace music festival conceived and coordinated by Kaoriko Ago Wada, the designer/owner of organic fiber/fair trade fashion company, Little Eagle, with whom Alicia collaborated both as performer at Ago Wada's dance-based fashion exhibitions, and as illustrator for many of Little Eagle's printed clothing and accessories, starting in 2008.  This album features three of Alicia's performances at the peace music festival, staged at ground zero in Hiroshima on August 8, 2015, during the week of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Also included here are Alicia's duet with legendary traditional Japanese vocalist, Ikue Asazaki, and the first public performance of kumu hula Miho Ogura's choreography of Alicia's song Ukulele Hula, danced by Miho and fiv