Raion Taiko in Concert, This Saturday (Feb 20)
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 08:24PM
February 20th has nearly arrived. What's so important about February 20th? We are playing a major concert at Marshall Middle School, in Marshall, MI. The organizers are teachers at the school who are in charge of an exchange program between their school and a junior high in Shiga, Japan. They contacted me ... gosh ... I feel like it was almost a year ago, to see if we'd be interested in doing a fundraising concert for their students. Although we were still in Japan at the time and the only members of our group were me and my wife, I said we'd do it. Now there are five of us and our new members, Tom, Eileen and Larry, have worked hard to learn new music, as well as teach us a few new songs.
Last weekend we rented a local auditorium to do a run through on our own, with costumes and everything. (see the picture above) and now, we're ready to go. Friday night we'll pack up our drums and after Saturday morning taiko class, we'll head on over to Marshall for the concert.
We even got a write up in the Battle Creek Enquirer today:
Rhythm of the Far East coming to Marshall
If you're interested in coming out to see us, please take a look at the information on our Taiko Performances page.
We hope to see a lot of people there.