Neighborhood Concert

Last weekend, on Sunday, we gave a mini-concert in the backyard of my parents' house.  The weather was beautiful and the trees were at the peak of their fall-colors.  My mother baked fresh molasses cookies and prepared warm, spiced cider for the guests.  It was partially an expression of thanks on our part, for all the neighbors putting up with the times that we have used my parents' garage as a practice space.  I am quite certain that the whole neighborhood is able to hear it when we do practice there.  Although we apologized for the noise and waking people up out of their Saturday afternoon naps, everyone was kind and said they didn't mind at all.  In fact, since we have moved into our new practice space, we haven't really been practicing in the garage any more and some of the neighbors actually complained that we HAVEN'T been practicing.  They actually miss hearing the drums.

Here are a few pictures from the performance.  We played an arrangement of a song called "Raigun" written by Yamada san of Hono Taiko, an excerpt on shime taiko from "Yatai Bayashi" (a song often performed by Kodo), a short piece with our daughter, which we learned at Earth Celebration this past summer and Kaga Mushi Okuri.