It's dance, it's drumming, it's earsplitting.
It's the 2010 International Taiko Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, an event you won't forget, even after your hearing returns to normal.
San Francisco hosts one of the foremost taiko schools in the country — the San Francisco Taiko Dojo — and, as in previous festivals, you'll get to hear a tremendous, headlining school from Japan: Osuwa Daiko.