Dear Friends,
Just to inform you that my shamisen teacher will organize a concert in Paris on Saturday 15 September 2012.
Her shamisen and koto students will play several pieces of Japanese musics.
For my part, I will play Natsu no oimode and Tuski no sabaku.
Details here (in French) : http://imgur.com/Dv8y5
I am very excited (but very afraid as well) as it is my first public performance after one year of shamisen practise. I have asked a friend of mine to take a video that I will post on Bachido for your comments (and critics) !
Cheers
Frédéric
Whooaaa!! Wish I could go see that! 
Stay relaxed and everything will be fine. 
And as I’m sure Eric and Norm can relate, be sure to change your strings the day before the concert. 
I look forward to the video.
Best of luck, Fred!
Kyle would the day before be good?
new strings dont sit right for atleast 9 hours of playing/ retuning really…
atleast in my experience, i would say a week before maybe haha
but thats just me
I would love to see it Fred, maybe sometime should i visit france or you visit england.
Good luck with your concert and stay relaxed as kyle says
Best of luck Fred! I will be looking forward to a video post! Sounds exciting! Enjoy the experience and yes… Stay relaxed! But stay focused as well! Cool!
Courage Fred , la première expérience scénique est toujours stressante mais c’est celle qui te marques le plus et j’ai hâte de voir la vidéo du concert aussi!
Cana , a week before a gig is maybe a little too much , but i agree , a day before is risky , unless you want to live your life in danger ! When i was playing live , i would change my strings two or three days before the show , pull every strings to stabilise the nod , and the guitar was never out of tune , and yet i was playing the “god damn you fender for inventing that stratocantstayintune”
Thanks for your support !!!
I will try to follow your advices and stay relaxed . The video will learn a lot on my way of playing…
I hope you do it well! ummm…really… I am sure you will do it awesome!!
Good Luck Fred!!!
Its hard to stay relaxed while playing but the most important thing to remember is that people generally don’t know what its supposed to sound like :D.
Also don’t worry about breaking a string, I haven’t played Shamisen that much in public but I was playing in this Cafe place, I broke a string in the middle of the song and some guy gave me £20 and said “Don’t stop playing, buy some new strings!”