Approximately every two or three years, Kyodo members improve their drums. This year, we needed to paint the barrels a different color. So, here you see drummers sanding off the old paint, preparing the barrel for the new color.

[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.]