This group is from okinawa and produce a relly original sound using traditional Shima Uta songs.
During the Opening Ceremonies there was a parade of flags representing the countries where the participants had come from.
This is a performance by Calabash in Hawaii at the 2007 Okinawa Festival. The song is Asadoyuta an okinawan folk song only with a modern twist.
Okinawan Minyo is a popular style of music in Japan. Basically stated the minyo songs are songs of the common island people who inhabit the Ryukyu island chain. Many of the Odori style dances that accompany these songs include Okinawan karate movements. This was the way the okinawans hid the art of Karate from the Japanese when Japan invaded Okinawa and forbid any form of martial arts. This film was not taken by me but I decided to use it because of the great karate movements included in the dance performed by one of the customers to the bar that night.
This is a recording of the Chicago Matsuri Daiko Performing at the Chicago White Sox Game on August 11th 2007.
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