{"id":4628,"date":"2010-02-12T19:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T02:47:41","slug":"nikki-yanofsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/nikki-yanofsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Yanofsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27152401trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27152401trim-484x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nikki yanofsky tokyo ginza international jazz festival\" width=\"484\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27152401trim-484x800.jpg 484w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27152401trim-151x250.jpg 151w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27152401trim.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/an-evening-stroll-through-ginza-%E9%8A%80%E5%BA%A7\/>I previously mentioned<\/a> the &#8220;Ginza International Jazz Festival&#8221; we &#8220;won&#8221; tickets for back in October. What I didn&#8217;t mention is the only international performer on the bill was Nikki Yanofsky, the very same 16-year old (she was 15 at the time) who just sang the Canadian national anthem, &#8220;O Canada&#8221;, at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27143409.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27143409-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kabuki kabukiza \u6b4c\u821e\u4f0e\u5ea7 old ginza theater tokyo japan 2009 photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27143409-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27143409-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/27143409.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The location was Kabukiza (\u6b4c\u821e\u4f0e\u5ea7) in Ginza, Tokyo. This very old Kabuki Theater is set for demolition just a few weeks from now. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a video I took of a piece of Nikki Yanofsky&#8217;s performance. Nikki Yanofsky performs &#8220;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&#8221; and Sadao Watanabe joins her on sax. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"800\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BOy5xBbfB70&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BOy5xBbfB70&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously mentioned the &#8220;Ginza International Jazz Festival&#8221; we &#8220;won&#8221; tickets for back in October. What I didn&#8217;t mention is the only international performer on the bill was Nikki Yanofsky, the very same 16-year old (she was 15 at the time) who just sang the Canadian national anthem, &#8220;O Canada&#8221;, at the 2010 Vancouver Winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[241,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4634,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}