Lanterns and Music

The Lantern Festival is a big event in Taiwan. There were so many lantern displays -- each one made by a different group, or business, or school, or class -- and they were very interesting to see. It was hard to get any good pictures though, because there were so many people under the tents that I could hardly move let alone get pictures.




There is every sort of music to be heard here. The other evening, when I was taking a stroll through the Cultural Centre, I came across some sort of children's musical production. I sat and enjoyed the dancing and singing of different groups of school children performing. I had to laugh though at the variety of songs chosen. First there was a yodeling song, then what I think was a Chinese folk song, then a Christmas jingle, then a Christian worship song, followed by another Chinese song, at which point I left because of the mosquitoes. But I couldn't complain that there was a lack of variety. It was really great. I didn't have my camera with me so I couldn't take any pictures. Sorry. But here is a picture I took on a different day near Love River. The man is singing some sort of Taiwanese folk music and strumming his instrument while his foot control the "drum" he made from the Pink Panther toy and a hard hat.