Salt Lake City Obon 2021

Welcome to the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple's (virtual) Obon dance festival for 2021! We hope you enjoy all of the dances and taiko drumming featured in this video. We are sorry we were not able to celebrate like we typically do, due to the pandemic.
Obon is a special time of year where our ancestors are said to return to this earth to join us in a celebration of dancing and joy. We hope you enjoy this video and celebrate with us!
Please visit our website for more information on the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple:
www.slbuddhist.org/
Feel free to make a donation to our temple here:
www.paypal.com/donate?token=4...
A huge thanks to all the dancers past and present in this video, and to...
All of the generous sponsors and their families whose support sustains our temple
Todd Matsuda, Kory Hasegawa, and Keaton Yoshinaga for directing, filming, and editing this project
Reverend Jerry Hirano for his opening remarks
Temple president Troy Watanabe for his role as emcee
Dance instructors; Sandy Iwasaki, Emily Iwasaki, and Tracy Akimoto-Roberson
Odaiko drummer (dance accompanist) Ray Nishikawa
Salt Lake Buddhist Temple Taiko Group, under the instruction of Stan Hirai and Betty Yamashita of the Ogden Buddhist Temple Taiko Group
Kira Joko for designing the official logo for the SLBT Virtual Obon
Obon committee chair Lisa Imamura

[@reneematsuura9509]

Great job to all contributors, supporters, chairpersons, volunteers. It was nice to be able to celebrate Obon 2021.

[@saltlakebuddhist]

Thank you, to you and your family for submitting videos!

[@lindayamada2709]

Thank you for sharing❣️

[@scooternak53]

Thank you for sharing.
Namo Amida Butsu🙏

[@lynneaoyama3918]

So nice to see familiar faces! Great job putting this tradition together! The taiko group rocks!

[@masamitadehara4628]

thank you so much for putting this together! we had a great remote bon!

[@craigkurumada9741]

I grew up in SLC doing these dances. Excellent editing, syncing all the videos, past and present.

[@roytanaka9512]

Well done, very enjoyable

[@calnakamura8498]

Will we be able to see this again? I missed the first 8 dances!

[@saltlakebuddhist]

Yes! You should be able to start from the very beginning. Depending on the device you're using, there might be a little repeat/restart button. If not you can click and drag the seek bar at the bottom to replay.