IRPS Asian New Years Festival

Playing between a qin performance and a heated kimchii eating contest, Asayake performed Ashura, Arashi, and Oiichi in front of the International Relations and Pacific Studies library. Overall I think we put on a good show that drew a lot of people out of their rooms and offices :) Good job to Jenna for her very first performance and solo! ;] All the newbies are playing strong.

Here are some pictures:





Just as a side-note though, with the number of Lunar New Year performance requests we are getting, I am starting to wonder how many people actually know that Japanese people do not really celebrate the Lunar New Year. Not that it's a big deal.

Asayake Taiko in the UCSD Guardian

02/20/07: Drumming Up Past Experiences

Asayake Taiko was featured in UCSD's very own Guardian! With the number of performance requests coming in, I feel we are getting quite a lot of publicity -at least more so than the previous years. I'm so proud to be a part of this group!

I know what we will go far.

NSU Day of Remembrance performance

What a great performance! The newbies had their very first performance on Friday, and they were awesome! Congrats to the newbies!!! This marks one of many more great performances to come from them, and I look forward to performing beside them! Great job, everyone! :D