Spring Thunder Festival 2011Concord-Carlisle High School
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[The lighting, as usual, was straight-on from the front and basically awful. I did what I could to recover levels, lessen harsh contrast, and rescue several players from inky pits of darkness upstage, but there's only so much that can be done under the circumstances...] |
Preliminaries
Juni introduces the show |
Odaiko New England's newest big drum is presented, and everyone gives it a hit! |
Mahora
Norito reading
Hiryu Sandan Gaeshi (version 1)
Ready... |
Yatai Bayashi
Juni explains the Yatai style, and the first set begins... |
Frequent player swaps are needed because everyone's got only just so much long-term ab strength for this. Here's changing to the last of four sections |
Ganesha Awakens
An experimental work-in-progress by Juni
A solo piece so far, but involving a large rack of drums |
Hiryu Sandan Gaeshi (version 2)
... with a few more players. Maybe the dragon will listen now... |
Discussions
Who's been playing taiko for ... one year? Two? Many? |
What do you like best about taiko? |
Audience participation
Come on up and try taiko! |
Don! Kon! Don! Kon! Rrrroooollllllll! |
Kokyo
Everyone |
Noting Cat's dedication and hard work helping put the show together |
Reception in the band room |
Someone's daughter helped on loadout by pulling up all the spike tape |