As of about 2 months ago I’m currently a member of Kawauso Daiko, a taiko (Japanese drumming) group made up of both foreigners (mainly JETs) and locals. Our first performance last week was at the Tsuno Town candle festival:
Unfortunately, the video taken of that performance is of very low quality, so I won’t share it here, but it was amazing, being surrounded by 3,500 candles while performing in front of a local crowd!
This weekend we had our second performance held at a shopping complex as part of an even that happens once every 5 years, the name of which I can’t actually recall!
I think we performed much better for the second performance, but apparently we ran out of film…
Anyway, without further ado, here is our morning performance!
Our first song. I’m second from your right.
Our second song. I’m not playing but I’m sitting sternly second from your left.
Our third and final song. My debut on the huge dai drum at the back. So nervous!
We have another performance at the end of November at the re-opening of a rest stop in Susaki. We’ll be playing a new song there so look forward to it!