Today marks the end of a very busy week. Today was our spring concert, the culmination of a quarter's worth of work and was overall a very rewarding experience. Perhaps to make.this more relevant to the project, what was significant about this concert was that there were 3 other collegiate taiko groups that attended from UC Riverside, UCLA, and UCI showing the pervasiveness of the collegiate Taiko community extending into the Japanese American community and the support that each other has over a shared commonality of Taiko.
In terms of updates as for the project, I am getting closer to acquiring interviews but.I have been invited to attend the practices of San Diego Taiko and Naruwan Taiko this week so I can engage in deep hanging out with the groups and learn more about the Japanese American community and their views towards Taiko especially in the fact that they are community groups extending outside the collegiate scene. The practices are scheduled for this Thursday so I'm really excited and I will provide updates along the way.
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