All a university really needs to get its students to come out to an event is the promise of free food.
However, Kyoto Seika University enlisted four students from the school¡¯s folk-music club to entice a crowd to a welcome party in April 2012, which ended up being the debut gig for Homecomings.
¡°We didn¡¯t plan on doing anything more than that, so we just practiced whenever we all didn¡¯t have class,¡± says vocalist and guitarist Ayaka Tatamino. ¡°We didn¡¯t get much reaction from our friends or the people surrounding us ... though a few foreign people sang along.¡±
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