Musou Band

Last night our friend WanChen hooked us up with VIP passes to see a Taiwanese all-girl band at the National Theater downtown. The theater was beautiful (we'd never been before) and the music was awesome! Again, it was a fun intercultural experience to see many Salvadoran-Taiwanese families with bilingual children! The girls were definitely working the fact that they were all drop dead gorgeous and wearing mini skirts, but were really impressive on their instruments as well, which were all really old traditional Taiwanese instruments. I had never seen anything like some of those instruments before! They played a wide range of songs, from traditional Taiwanese songs, to the theme from Titanic, to "La Bamba", to "Flight of the Bumblebee" to a traditional Salvadoran song. And they played each song with the most sentimental expressions on their faces, as if they were pondering a rainbow in the distance or smelling freshly washed linens while watching puppies bound through a field of daisies.





I called this song the Taiwanese bluegrass song, featuring the two-stringed violin, which was my favorite instrument:



And here are some snippets of some of the instruments:







Flight of the Bumblebee....