GO Taiko & World Soran

The Richmond Youth-based Taiko Group and Japanese festival dancers take the stage together!

Celebrate Japanese culture through the power of drums with GO Taiko. GO Taiko is only the second youth Taiko group in BC. Their roots are in South Vancouver and Richmond. GO Taiko has performed at the Unity Festival in Slocan, Fair at the PNE, Vancouver Chinatown Parade, Powell St. Festival, CTV News, BC Lions Halftime Show, Steveston Salmon Festival Parade, and the Richmond Maritime Festival.

World Soran is composed of Japanese, Canadians, Japanese Canadians and international members gathered from all over the world!

The team aims at facilitating long-lasting friendships beyond borders and collaboratively creating memorable performances. Soran-Bushi, born among herring fishermen in the northern sea of Hokkaido Japan, demonstrates the powerful energy of fishermen battling in the sea, while Ushibuka Haiya Bushi from Kumamoto in southern Japan exhibits how the ladies anxiously yet positively waited for their families to safely come back from the sea.

World Soran pays homage to the early settlers from Japan to Canada most of whom were engaged in the fisheries, and contributes to strengthening the bond of Nikkei communities, and friendship between Canada and Japan into the future.

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