KOTO Performance at Friendship Bell
September 19, 2000

Leader (left), Yuko FUKUDA
and Eiko MATSUZAWA (middle) and daughter (right) Keiko MATSUZAWA
in concert at the Oak Ridge Friendship Bell.

They performed:
SAKURA - "cherry bloosoms",
 ROKUDAN, and
 KINUTA which represents the sounds of a weaver at work.
Yuko sang the words to HATSU DAYORI telling about the arrival of spring.

SCSO hosted a pot luck supper after the performance.

Thanks to SCSO members Shigeko Uppuluri and Mariane Vigander for making the concert possible.

Ringing the Friendship Bell.	Yuko Fukuda explains her dream of performing in the United States in the Millennium Year.
Shigeko Uppuluri introduces the preformers.	The beautiful music was enjoyed by all!
	Yuko sang the words to HATSU DAYORI telling about the arrival of spring.

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