Taiko Classes and More Pictures

There are a few blogs I check every once in a while and when they fail to update them at least once a week, I begin to get frustrated.  One of them, which promises to update every Monday, Wednesday and Friday has not updated for at least three weeks.  I am on the verge of not checking it anymore because I wonder if it will ever update. 

It has served as a reminder, though, that I do not update our own blog nearly as often as I should.  Even if it is just to pass on information, I believe it is considerate to try to update it on a regular basis.

More Pictures

In my last post, I wrote about our performance at the Mochitsuki event at the Center for Japanese Studies (U of M) and posted a few pictures.  I finally got the rest of the pictures from my dad and have added some of the better ones to our photo album.  Be sure to check them out.  Here is one to get you started ...

In other news, we began preliminary taiko classes on January 18th. So far we have had a good response and the two adult classes grew in number from week one to week two. We are now approaching capacity for both of them.  If you have been considering joining, don't wait too long, as they may fill up.

We were very honored to host a special guest on our very first day of lessons.  In attendance was Sumiyo Asano of Asano Taiko.  It was exciting to have her there as we made these first steps to begin sharing the taiko drumming we learned at Asano Taiko over the past few years in Michigan. Thank you for your visit, Sumiyo-san. We look forward to seeing you again soon. 

Sumiyo-san is also responsible for one of the blogs on the Asano Taiko website.  She also wrote about her visit, which you can read about and see pictures here: Asano Tsushin.

One change in classes to note, especially if you are interested in the Monday evening classes.  We found that our planned starting times were too early for children getting out of school and adults getting off of work, so we have moved the starting times back slightly.  The new times are as follows:

Mondays

5:00 - 6:00 PM Children's class

6:00 - 7:30 PM Adult class

We hope that this is more convenient and will allow more people to attend the classes.

Until next time (hopefully, it won't be too long)...

Brian