Get your tickets now: Benefit concert for Tokyo Garden is Dec. 9

A concert to benefit the owners of Tokyo Garden has been scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 9, at Fulton 55 in downtown Fresno.

The Fresno Bee reported in September that Tommy Yoshioka, who owns and operates the restaurant and music venue with his brother Toshi and Toshi’s wife Esko, was seriously injured in a car accident. With Tommy unable to return to work, Toshi and Esko are having trouble maintaining the 61-year-old restaurant.

Tokyo Garden has featured in the late-night experiences of many Fresnans. I wrote last January about how the old-time bars and hangouts in Fresno have all but disappeared, and it seems Tokyo Garden may be the next to go. Although this would be a huge loss for Fresno, it’s too selfish to expect the Yoshioka family to continue to struggle to keep the doors open.

And right now the family could use some help. The December benefit will be hosted by Nate Butler and will include stories from performing bands of their experiences and memories at Tokyo Garden. The line-up of bands for the concert includes:

• The Roger Perry Band
• Debi Ruud and the Trainspotters
• Blake Jones and the Trike Shop
• Rockville
• Thunderbolt 650
• Sparklejet
• Fulton’s Folly

This is a 21 and over event. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here. All ticket sales and raffle purchases will go to the Yoshioka family.

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Jason Farris

Head YES man at FresYes.com

I grew up in Fresno. Relaxed in its calm breezes, listened with my dad to the crack of the bat at little league baseball games when I was a kid and now take my son to do the same at minor league games. I broadened my mind at its schools (I went to high school right here at San Joaquin Memorial, and to college at Fresno State!) I love that if I drive for two hours in one direction, I can be in the mountains. For two hours in another, luxuriating on a California beach. I can enjoy the cosmopolitan atmosphere of San Francisco or Los Angeles, but still be able to come home to relaxation, calm, and quiet.

I love where I live, and I also love what I do. I'm lucky to be able to work in a profession in which I get to build relationships; one that has me meeting new people each and every day and helping them to build new lives in my beloved city. I'm lucky enough to work in a profession in which I can marry cutting-edge technologies and marketing techniques to good, old-fashioned, nose-to-the-grindstone work. I am lucky enough to work in a profession that allows me to work as an advocate for my clients; to use every tool at my disposal to get a job done well for them, and with as little stress and expense as possible.

I love my city. I love my job. One inspires my excellence for the other.

Fresno? I say FresYES

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