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Japanese Drum Troupe Performs at John Carroll University
JCU event marks the group’s final U.S. tour stop

Friday, April 25
7:30 p.m.
Dolan Center for Science and Technology / Donahue Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public.

This performance is presented with the support of the Japan Foundation, the Japan Association of Northeast Ohio (JANO), the Japan America Society of Northeast Ohio (JASNO), the Nippon Taiko Association & the Ishikawa Taiko Foundation and the John Carroll University Liturgical Music and Musical Arts Program.

John Carroll University is the last venue for the Yuzuriha Taiko troupe.  Their U.S. tour included Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terra Haute, Indiana, and Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

John Carroll University’s East Asian Studies Program presents Yuzuriha Taiko, a group of women who perform Japanese music with drums and the bamboo flute.
                         
Yuzuriha is comprised of four women. The group performs traditional Japanese music, incorporating original compositions by the well-know composer and musician, Shunsuke Kimura.

Dr. Roger Purdy
Coordinator, East Asian Studies
216.397.4776
rpurdy@jcu.edu

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition. The university has more than 3,000 undergraduates and nearly 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 annual college guide ranks the master’s degree program at John Carroll University among the top 10 universities across the Midwest. The university is ranked 13th in the“Great Schools, Great Prices” category which compares academic excellence with cost. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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