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After almost ten months' worth of bonding, practicing, performing, building new equipment, traveling to new places, and making collegiate taiko history, Bakuhatsu is sad to say that the 2016-2017 season is over with our last practice of the school year last night.  Bakuhatsu after the last practice of the 2016-2017 school year where we planned for the future and jammed until we were out of breath. Photo courtesy of Naoki Kanagawa Congratulations to our graduating seniors as they take the Bakuhatsu spirit with them in their future endeavors! Allyson Beem August Walker Curtis Fan Calvin Lee Daniel Kim Gloria Kum Naoki Kanagawa Rahi Suryawanshi Shai Nielson Also, a special shout out to our member Hiroya Mizobe who is heading back to Japan soon and who we'll miss very much! The school year may be over, but Bakuhatsu doesn't give up on taiko that easily (or at all). The team will be back at it again with summer practices and performances resuming shortly after finals end. While we will be missing some members who are leaving Davis soon and will say goodbye to graduates as they leave Davis, we still have the summer full of song learning and performing to look forward to! San Jose Obon, July 8-9 Bakuhatsu is incredibly honored to have been asked back for another year in a row to perform at our biggest performance of the summer, San Jose Obon—a festival where "generations of families and friends come together and enjoy a rich cultural experience in one of the three remaining Japantowns in the United States." There will be games, food, taiko performances from various groups, and lots of dancing. We can't wait to join in on the festivities and also perform on Sunday, July 9th! 2017-2018 Board Members Congratulations to the new Bakuhatsu board members as they transition into their new positions over the summer. Co-Presidents – Tomoki Masakawa & Braden Wong Practice Directors – Issa Takada & Yuki Igarashi Administrative Director – Quynhmi Nguyen Treasurer – Jonathan Gong Equipment Managers – Michaela Tan & Gregory Wada Publicity Manager – Michelle Boutell Showcase Directors – Thao Le Hoang, Cayce Badiola & Quynhmi Nguyen Workouts Director – Daniel Lavados Relations Ambassador – Gregory Wada Historian – Michelle Boutell Webmaster – Daniel Lavados Designer – Gloria Kum Thank you to everyone—family, friends, and all other supporters—who helped make this year as amazing as it was. We hope to make next year even better!  Bakuhatsu members and guests after the 2016-2017 annual BakuBanquet. Photo courtesy of Naoki Kanagawa Written by Shai Nielson, BTD Historian 2016-2017
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This past Memorial Day weekend was the 23rd Annual Intercollegiate Taiko Invitationals (ITI) hosted by UCLA's Kyodo Taiko and Yukai Daiko. From early in the morning and throughout both days, members of 16 different collegiate taiko groups* got to meet each other and take workshops from professional taiko players**. Workshops ranged from various naname and odaiko forms to bachi twirling to polyrhythms, while the instructors came from all over California and beyond to teach. During the first morning, collegiate players got to watch an instructor demonstration and each evening the players got to perform with their groups during the collegiate showcases.  Every year at ITI, the collegiate members make their own hachimaki based on themes or cool ideas and then exchange their creations with others as a way to make new friends and have something unique from the event. Here is Bakuhatsu before we exchanged our dog-theme hachimaki. Bakuhatsu had a phenomenal time learning so much from the instructors and from the other collegiate teams and would like to thank Kyodo and Yukai for hosting such an amazing event this year. We already can't wait for next year's ITI at UC Riverside hosted by Senryu Taiko! *USCD Asayake, Cal Poly Touzan Taiko, UNLV Rebel Taiko Experiment, UCI TaiKomotion, UCD Bakuhatsu, Kazan at USC, UCR Senryu, UCI Jodaiko, University of Washington Taiko Kai, The Claremont Colleges Taiko, CSUN Jishin Taiko, University of Oregon Ahiru Daiko, Cal Raijin, Stanford Taiko, UCLA Yukai Daiko, UCLA Kyodo Taiko **Kris Bergstrom, Kristy Oshiro, Prota, Unit One, Tiffany Tamaribuchi, Taiko Project, Eien Hunter Ishikawa, Masato Baba, David Wells, Shoji Kameda, Naruwan Taiko, SJ Taiko, Bevin Chan, Clara Takahashi, Young Kang, Reid Taguchi, Eric Briggs, Mike Hirota Written by Shai Nielson, BTD Historian 2016-2017 |
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