Fri. October 20
Nara Evans Castle Hall (Nara)
Open rehearsal 13:00-18:00
Steve Eto (Percussion)
Leonard Eto (Taiko)
Reach Yamauchi (Taiko, Shamisen)
Tatsuya Kobayashi (Taiko)
ticket: 2,600 yen incl. 1drink
Evans Castle Hall: 0742-25-4870
 
Sat. October 21
Hanahaku Memorial Hall (Osaka)
Open 15:30 Start 16:00
Leonard Eto (Taiko)
Kanako Ohtani (Shamisen)
Saeki Bayashi (Taiko)
Yui Eisa Unit (Okinawa taiko)
Eisa BUNAGAYA (Okinawa taiko)
Eisa BILLIKEN (Okinawa taiko)
ticket: 4,500 yen
U-25: 2,000 yen
Mail order
tel. 090-5977-0123 (Saeki)
How to get to there.
 
Sat. October 28
Omihachiman Shuyukan (Shiga)
Open 15:30 Start 16:00
Leonard Eto (Taiko)
Reach Yamauchi (Taiko, Shamisen)
Tatsuya Kobayashi (Taiko)
Kosaji Suiryo Taiko
ticket: 4,500 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Online reservation (Japanese)
Shuyukan: 090-1960-1264 (Nishimura)
 
Sun. October 29
Ganoji (Nagoya)
Open 15:30 Start 16:00
Leonard Eto (Taiko)
Reach Yamauchi (Taiko, Shamisen)
Tatsuya Kobayashi (Taiko)
Shiori SaKurai (Marimba)
Iori Tadokoro (Dance)
ticket: 4,500 yen
U-25: 2,000 yen
Mail order: otosouko@gonna.org
Tel. 052-506-8955 (Otosouko / 9:00-16:00)
How to get to there.

The third single “Straight Ahead”
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Video streaming

The second single “Pancomelen Forever”
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The first single “DON DEN”
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WTC Premium Talk
Leonard Eto talks about “TAIKO as a PERFORMING ART”

Taiko as an Expression on Stage: Its Development and Future

kaDON “Exploring Katsugi with Leonard Eto”
kaDON is a new online venture dedicated to producing high quality instructional videos for taiko and fue. Simply out, kaDON is the world’s best place to learn taiko and fue online. In this introductory course, taiko legend Leonard Eto teaches the ins and outs of Katsugi Okedo from its history to the development of the modern playing style, roping and maintenance to step-by-step lessons on how to play the Katsugi Okedo while controlling and becoming one with taiko.
http://kadon.com/course/exploring-katsugi/

Cultural Envoy Year 2013-2014
Leonard Eto has accomplished the mission as the Japan Cultural Envoy for one year from August in 2013 to July in 2014. This movie is only a part of his activities. Please enjoy it!

3.11 Message
The Japanese people have held a sense of fear against nature from ancient times, so we held festivals and prayed for abundant harvest and sound health. The core of the festivals have been the Japanese taiko and dancing. Japan is now in a serious situation, but as a musician, my role stays the same as before. I continue to communicate aggressively through music with people who possess different values, search for something we have in common and arrange it in a form of music and performance. Now, we must seriously accept messages from nature which support human activities and move on. I believe that this leads to being creative. Stay positive.

2011 Leonard Eto