Mom and Dad came for a visit this April. They convienently arrived Wednesday evening the night before an International Ladies Club event. So the morning after their arrival, Mom and I abandoned poor Dad and I dragged Mom to the ILC lunch. The featured performance for the month was a traditional rain dance from somewhere in this area. It was performed by locals ranging in age from may be 10ish to retiring age. We were told that their performance for us was kind of a trial run for the actual performance which would take place that weekend. All in all, it was very good. The primary music was taiko drums with some flutes in the back. Most of it was one repeating pattern, which continued while each of the characters in the dance took their turns performing solos on the main central drum. Here's the drummers: 
This, I gathered, is an important community member of some sort calling a dragon to ask for rain.
Finally, a guardian Chinese dragon came out and entertained us all.
Clearly, I missed part of the storyline some how, but it was interesting to watch all the same. What made it more neat was the fact that they had people of all ages participating. It was neat to see smaller kids get involved in their heritage like that. It was a highly enjoyable experience. 
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