taiko festival!

There was a taiko festival at the 北海道開拓村 Hokkaido Pioneer's Village, and Hashimoto was playing so I went with them. I watched six or so groups playing, it was awesome.

While eating lunch with the group, somebody joked that I should put on a 法被 happi coat and play one of the songs I know to open the afternoon show. At that point I pulled my bachi and tabi socks out of my bag, and everybody couldn't help but laugh. What can I say, I knew there'd be taiko, so I packed them just in case. We spent the rest of the lunch break practicing the backup parts for Ishikari.

The show was held inside an auditorium, so we set three drums outside the building and we played Ishikari-daiko (the one with three drums) for potential visitors to the show. After finishing, people came in in droves, there was about triple the attendence for the afternoon show.

Taiko rocks.