{"id":2981,"date":"2015-03-14T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T05:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2015-03-14T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T05:35:43","slug":"uto-taiko-matsuri-by-yoshikazu-fujimoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150314_2981.html","title":{"rendered":"“Uto Taiko Matsuri” by Yoshikazu Fujimoto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Feb. 19,\u00a0Motofumi Yamaguchi and I visited some TV stations and a\u00a0radio station in Kumamoto to promote “Uto Taiko Matsuri<\/a>.” We gave a mini live performance at each station.<\/p>\n

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We visited Kumamoto Castle on the way. I was very impressed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I led a taiko\u00a0camp from Feb. 20 (Fri) to 22 (Sun), and on the\u00a0final day, the participants had a recital at\u00a0Uto Taiko Matsuri\u00a0to show everyone what they had learned\u00a0during the camp. Each year, this recital is the first act at\u00a0the festival. First, we sang “Hobashira Okoshi Ondo” and then we played a new piece called “Narukami, which means “Thunder God.” The ten\u00a0participants, including three local high school students, had joined me there\u00a0from all over Japan. I was really pleased that they all took part. Some of them were just beginners, but I had them play simple base rhythms and\u00a0we were all able to play together.<\/p>\n

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Just before the performance with the Taiko Camp participants. We performed in pink “Uto Taiko Matsuri” t-shirts.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Feb. 19,\u00a0Motofumi Yamaguchi and I visited some TV stations and a\u00a0radio station in Kumamoto to promote “Uto Taiko Matsuri.” We gave a mini live performance at each station.   I led a taiko\u00a0camp from Feb. 20 (Fri) to 22 (Sun), and on the\u00a0final day, the participants had a recital at\u00a0Uto Taiko Matsuri\u00a0to show everyone what they had learned\u00a0during the camp. Each year, this recital is the first act at\u00a0the festival. First, we sang “Hobashira Okoshi Ondo” and then we played a new piece called “Narukami, which means “Thunder God.” The ten\u00a0participants, including three local high school students, had joined me there\u00a0from all over Japan. I was really pleased that … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[164,24,43,22,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}