From Kyoto, Japan,
The Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Green Band performing a benefit concert for the Earthquake and Tsunami victims of Northern Japan inside the Performing Arts Center at John F. Kennedy High School, located in La Palma, California on Tuesday, January 3rd 2012. This is an incredible band and they put on a great show! During the time when the band performs to Alan Menken’s Go the Distance (around the 1:02:52 mark), band members take turns and go thank their host families for opening their doors while on their Southern California Rose Parade trip. In total, there were 46 host families that opened their doors to these exceptional 131 Japanese students.

00:05 – It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing): Duke Ellington
03:55 – Colorguard performance to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”
06:25 – In the Mood: Glenn Miller
09:44 – L-O-V-E: Nat King Cole
11:00 – Clarinet Quintet – Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)
14:40 – Tachibana High School Introduction
17:27 – Manteca: Dizzy Gillespie/Luciano Pozo
20:42 – Carpenters Forever, arranged by Toshio Mashima
26:55 – Japan Earthquake/Tsunami MC
30:38 – Introduction of Japan’s GBA President: Hisashi Hiramatsu
35:23 – Prayer with Tohoku Earthquake Video
41:36 – Hymn to the Land of the Rising Sun: Frank Duarte
51:45 – Theme from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean
1:00:26 – Go the Distance; Disney’s Hercules: Alan Menken
1:25:45 – The Stars and Stripes Forever: John Philip Sousa