Celebrate the music, dance and tradition of Japanese Obon summer festivals here in SE Michigan! MI Bon Festival #MIBON2022 is a community project of the Great Lakes Taiko Center @GLTC
Last Summer 2021, the Great Lakes Taiko Center (GLTC) celebrated our first annual Michigan Bon Festival on August 7th 2021 with Taiko performances by Tanoshii Taiko Tai (T3), Godaiko Drummers, and Raion Taiko, and we premiered the new Michigan Ondo (original song and dance) by Kyoko Johnson & Noriko Maidens, our MI Bon project creators.
At this inaugural Michigan Bon Festival (MI Bon 2021), we celebrated our past year of Taiko connections, like our Bondaiko Bondance Kane (BBK) online class and outdoor group practices, and we honored the people and places of our Taiko community as we gathered to share our Michigan Ondo along with other folk songs and dances of the Japanese Bon Festival, or Obon, a summer festival tradition from Japan which continues to evolve around the world as a time to honor the spirits of our ancestors and to gather in celebration of life as a community.
Let's dream about #MIBON2022 together! ~Eileen Ho & Larry An, GLTC co-directors and members Taiko Centering 2022#TaikoDreams
Participation in last year's event was limited to GLTC members and their guests, for COVID safety reasons, but we look forward to inviting more people to future MI Bon festivals. This year's MI Bon planning committee is happy to announce that our 2nd annual MI Bon Festival 2022 will take place on Saturday, August 20th at the Novi Public Library! UPDATE: 8/20 event cancelled due to weather; postponed to rain date of SAT 9/24!
Dear MI Bon friends, We have decided to cancel today's 8/20 event due to the afternoon thunderstorm forecast and postpone #MIBON2022 to the Rain Date of SAT Sep...
