The Muko, Japan, Taiko Group came to Saratoga to participate in the Oct. 6 Saratoga Community Parade and to celebrate Saratoga's 40th birthday. Saratoga Taiko also marched in the parade, and both groups played at the city's birthday celebration after the parade at Wildwood Park. The group includes (front row, from left) Chiyoko Fujii, Yoko Nakajima, Atuko Yamada, Mitsuko Asada, Marilyn White, Yuki Sakai, Yukie Shimizu and Art Okuno; (second row from left) Aki Ikuno, Takashi Kimura, Atsuko Yamada, Munenori Higashi, Pauline Celano, George Ogino and Joan Gomersal; (back row from left) Machiko Nakatani, Ron Landrum, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shingo Takahashi, Gail Carotozolo and Peter Marr.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, October 16, 1996.
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