JAPANESE pianist Hiroko Yasunori played for an enthused crowd at the Evergreen Retirement Village in Pakenham last Thursday.
Hiroko came to the village to perform for the residents and even got a few of them up on their feet.
She is a friend of the village’s director and is a talented musician who has been playing since she was three-years-old.
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