We had a gig in a lovely church. It had this giant cross hanging from the ceiling over the stage.

( It was a really nice space. )

This was a very odd gig. I'm not sure what I learned from it, other than if you're driving drums, don't expect to be able to get to an open house. Grooved pavement made moving drums interesting. There was sound conflict, but luckily not until mostly into the set. I thought about playing shinen on fue, but backed out.

So this might not be too coherent, because I'm pretty tired. But we had a taiko gig at 5am. The humity was so high, the nishaku drum sounded like playing on a basket ball. I'm so glad that steve recommend I find a sun block I'm not allegic to (which I think did) because the sun was burtal ( Read more... )

hartford was fun. I think one of my better preformances, but I can't remember much. It really felt like the first performance where I've started to be treated as a performer more than a student ( Read more... )

(I'm not locking this taikolog post ( Read more... )