Each year, the Nikkei Student Union at UCLA participates in the Manzanar Pilgrimage. This year, Kyodo Taiko was asked to perform the opening number of the program.

Here, we stand in front of the bed of the truck, which acted as a stage, where the program took place.

[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.]