Izumo Band Marches Path to Rose Parade

Chisato Asuta, shamisen (photos by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS)

Japan will again be represented in the Rose Parade in Pasadena on Tuesday, as the 120-member All-Izumo Honor Green Band performs. At the annual Band Fest tune-up on Sunday, the band delighted the huge audience at Pasadena City College with precision marching, a Japanese selection featuring band member Chisato Atsuta on shamisen, and Takuya Yamasaki’s one-man dancing group to the Village People’s “YMCA.”

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