Tomorrow, Dean Kobayashi will be our guest tomorrow, Friday, February 20th at 12pm PST, the first in our set of 3 great sessions with NS Stick players.

Hailing from Minato-ku Tokyo, Dean comes from a bass playing background and actively writes, performs and records with the NS as his primary instrument.

Dean has been very active in Free Hands Academy events since it's inception. In addition to attending both the 2013 and 2014 Summer Sessions, he was featured on the Bel-Air Stick Night in 2014. He was also our Emcee at the NAMM Stick Night last month which featured a performance of his latest piece, "Inasmuch" which was also featured and posted here on the stickist.com. Dean also heads up the Northern California Stick Circle with Jonathan Korn.

Last I checked, we had Kyle McCann on board to lead the session, I'll confirm that today with Kyle. Hope that you can all join us tomorrow for a great session with one of our community's most active NS players.

As part of evolving our process, we'll send out the link in advance and welcome questions via g+ hangout interface that can be asked in advance. So, even if you can't attend, you can post some questions here to be discussed by Dean, Kyle and crew.

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We hope to see you tomorrow - cheers.

I will be there, unless tomorrow starts badly.

Dean, was one of the highlights for me last year @FHA.... the joy of expression and his facility on the instrument was really compelling! And of course, He is a really great person to hang with. Please send me an invite. I actually have a break in patients at noon, which is odd.

Dean and NS - yes!!! I'll try to connect where it's @!


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Hi Per. We'll start up around 11:45 and begin recording at 12pm pst - I expect that will be about 21:00 your time. Would be great to see you.

Will be 9 pm here.

Great to hear Per and Randy. Rob and I confirmed that Kyle McCann will be in the house to host the session - all hail the NS!

I will send out an email to your respective email addys with a link to the session. Looking forward to it.

I had a great time on the last Free Hands Friday.
Thanks for having me!
It was great to see so many of you. I've met all but two people in person.
It was the first time talking with Robstafarian and Kyle. I hope to meet each of you in person soon.