Heads up karisu_sama & didjiman

[gurdymonkey]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?entry_id=38902
Approximately 5 minute segment about Emeryville Taiko's sessions in Oakland's Lakeside Park, including an interview with Sensei Susan Horn.

And just for fun, hand and stick drumming in 16th century Japan. These are all details from the same folding screen in the Tokyo National Museum identified as 'Genre Scenes of the Twelve Months':
www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0022470.jpg
www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0022476.jpg
www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0022479.jpg
www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0022490.jpg

Detail from 'The Maple Viewers,' Also 16th c., also in the Tokyo National Museum.
http://www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0042445.jpg