Vanessa Yee and Andrew Chen, both 2006-2007 Kyodo newbies, play along to the music as people obon dance around them at the 2007 Manzanar Pilgrimage. The snow-capped mountains in the background provide a beautiful yet somber view.

[Kyodo Taiko at UCLA was the first collegiate taiko group to form in North America, founded under UCLA's Nikkei Student Union. Striving to live up to the group’s name, Kyodo Taiko functions as a family, sharing the joy and spirit of taiko with more and more of the surrounding community each year.]