Yumi joins Painted X-Ray
This isn’t strictly 2taiko news, but Yumi has now joined Alison in her Glasgow band, Painted X-Ray. With two recent Glasgow gigs under our belts, we’re looking forward to more, hopefully in France next summer.
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Montréal days
Now we’re spending more time together, rehearsing and performing with Painted X-Ray, it got us reminiscing about our early days playing together in Montréal. We started playing together just before the tsunami in Japan, in March 2011, and our first gigs were wee ten-minute slots at benefit concerts and events to raise money for the
Kurumaya-sensei
October 2023: It is with great sadness that we found out that our taiko teacher, Kurumaya-sensei, master of the Fukui style of taiko, has died. Alison was fortunate to be taught by him when she first began learning taiko, with Mugenkyo in 1999. At that time, Kurumaya-sensei was staying with Mugenkyo at their new base
Taiko practice in France
During the brief interlude between lockdowns and travel restrictions, we managed to get together to do a couple of gigs at outdoor festivals in Belgium and France. Here we get in a much-needed practice at the Lay-Saint-Christophe while en route from Brussels to Vallorcine. Many thanks to Chantal Puccio and her husband for their generous
Update: December 2016
It’s been a while since we’ve seen each other, but 2taiko are finally getting together to attend the European Taiko Conference in England in February 2017. Yumi is currently based in Nancy, France while Alison lives in South Wales and on a boat in the West of Scotland, so England is a relatively convenient place