By Dena Wood
The Times
Japanese Students Visit The 'Burg
Switchgrass members will travel to Japan in October
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Waitsburg Sasayama Exchange students visited the Bruce Museum and Wilson-Phillips house on Sunday. Back row (l to r): TVAMP director Kate Hockersmith, Robert Walsh, chaperone Hideki Niki. Front row (l to r): Mina Momii, Rina Maegawaa, Kaleb Kuykendall, Kenji Nakamura. Switchgrass member Chris Philbrook is not pictured.
WAITSBURG – Members of Waitsburg's favorite bluegrass band, Switchgrass Delta, are playing host to several Japanese students as part of the Sasayama-Walla Walla Sister City Exchange Program this month.
In October, the band members themselves will be the ones making the long flight to Japan as part of the program's 45th anniversary cultural exchange.
The family of Switchgrass Delta fiddler Kaleb Kuykendall is hosting 16-year-old Kenji Nakamura, and the family of standup bass player Robert Walsh is hosting Rina Maegawaa, 16, and Mina Momii, 17.
The Japanese students are part of a larger group th...
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