Spring Thunder Festival 2011
Concord-Carlisle High School
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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
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Juni introduces the show |
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| Odaiko New England's newest big drum is presented, and everyone gives it a hit! | |
Mahora
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Norito reading
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Hiryu Sandan Gaeshi (version 1)
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Ready... |
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Yatai Bayashi
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| Juni explains the Yatai style, and the first set begins... | ||
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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 |
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Ganesha Awakens
An experimental work-in-progress by Juni
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A solo piece so far, but involving a large rack of drums |
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Hiryu Sandan Gaeshi (version 2)
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... with a few more players. Maybe the dragon will listen now... |
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Discussions
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Who's been playing taiko for ... one year? Two? Many? |
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| What do you like best about taiko? | |
Audience participation
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Come on up and try taiko! |
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| Don! Kon! Don! Kon! Rrrroooollllllll! | |
Kokyo
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Everyone |
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Noting Cat's dedication and hard work helping put the show together |
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| Reception in the band room | |
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Someone's daughter helped on loadout by pulling up all the spike tape |