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GLTC Collective Performance at #MIBON2024

  • Cranbrook Japanese Garden 700 Cranbrook Road Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48304 United States (map)

GLTC members drum & dance in our MI Bon Summer Festival #MIBON2024 on SUN 8/11 at Cranbrook!


LOCATION & PARKING for GLTC member performers & staff ONLY:

#MIBON2024 team members may be dropped off or load equipment in and out of the festival grounds at the Cranbrook Japanese Garden access drive (700 Cranbrook Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304) before the gate is closed for pedestrian only traffic around 12:30pm. You may then park in the nearby lot (across the street) as instructed for event staff and vendors.


SCHEDULE on SUN 8/11 FOR GLTC #MIBON2024 Team:

10:00am > ARRIVAL on site for all GLTC team members for equipment load-in and site setup

noon to 1pm > LUNCH HOUR (Bento Box from Sushi Kabar for all GLTC performers!)

12:45pm > CALL for all performers to meet at yagura!

1pm - OPENING of the festival as participants begin arriving

1:30 - 5:30 > PROGRAM for MI Bon Festival 2024:
1:30-2:00pm > Murasaki Shikibu - Prelude in the garden
2:00-2:45pm > GLTC Taiko Performance 1* (song list below)
3:00-4:00pm > MI Bon Dancing around the yagura (
visit Bondance page)
4:00-4:45pm > GLTC Taiko Performance 2* (song list below)
5:00-5:30pm > Summer Song team - Postlude in the garden

5:30pm > CLOSING & CLEAN UP the site including load out of equipment


*SONG LIST for GLTC Taiko PerformanceS (Set 1 & Set 2):

  1. Mountain River Matsuri (MRM) arr. Olga Ehrlich

  2. Imabetsu Arama Odori w/T3 drummers (Ash Brown drumming in Set 2)

  3. DREAM by Yamada Mizue w/A2 Taiko Players

  4. WANOICHI by Kaoly Asano

  5. GODAIKO by Yamada Mizue w/Godaiko Drummers & Raion Taiko

  6. MUSHI OKURI trad. from Kaga region of Ishikawa Prefecture w/GLTC Collective


See the public directions & schedule for #MIBON2024 at https://michigantaiko.net/mibon