Entrevistas

1. Celebrating traditional Japanese New Years with family

2. Learning Japanese at school and at home with family

3. Developing an original kata

4. Introducing Taiko in Vancouver

5. The philosophy of playing Taiko

6. Defining a Taiko player

Hirabayashi,Roy

(n. 1951) Co-fundador e diretor administrativo do San Jose Taiko

Introducing Taiko in Vancouver

I think it was 1979. We were invited to the Powell Street Festival. I’m not sure if that was the first festival they had or not. It might’ve been. But anyways, we were brought up there. Rick Shiyomi was up there at that time. Naturally, a lot of the Vancouver folks are there now. But they invited us up, and we went up there. It was like a community festival, but they had never really seen Taiko, at least the community itself. So it was great experience for us. We got to meet everyone. For them, they were really kind of excited about what we were doing as San Jose Taiko.

So after that, they decided they wanted to start Katari Taiko. They really became involved in doing that. That was really kind of great to see that kind of happen after just a short weekend experience of meeting people and sharing what we’re doing as a group and seeing other musicians in another community, especially in Vancouver, and kind of take off with it and start their own thing also.

Colúmbia Britânica Califórnia Canadá tambor festivais Katari Taiko música Festival Powell Street San Jose Taiko San Jose taiko Estados Unidos da América Vancouver (B.C.)

Data: January 26, 2005

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Art Hansen, Sojin Kim

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Roy Hirabayashi, diretor administrativo e co-fundador do San Jose Taiko, nasceu e cresceu em Oakland, California e frequentou a Universidade do Estado de San Jose. Além do seu trabalho com o San Jose Taiko, trabalha também para o Programa de Estudos Asiático-americano da Universidade do Estado de San Jose, Japanese American Citizens League, Pacific Asian Coalition e Buddhist Churches of America. (26 de janeiro de 2005)