Mon. September 12, Haremame (Tokyo)
Taiko/ Leonard Eto
Tap/ Yuji Uragami
Shamisen, Bamboo flute, Taiko/ Kanako Otani
Open 18:00 Start 19:00
Ticket: Adv. 5,000yen, Door 5,500 yen
tel. 03-5456-8880
http://haremame.com

 
Thu. September 15, Togatoga (Kyoto)
Taiko/ Leonard Eto
Tap/ Yuji Uragami
Shamisen, Bamboo flute, Taiko/ Kanako Otani
Taiko/ Akira Sakagami
Open 18:00 Start 19:00
Ticket: Adv. 4,500yen, Door 5,000 yen
tel. 075-744-1497
http://togatoga.jp

 
Tue. September 20, TOKUZO (Nagoya)
Taiko/ Leonard Eto
Tap/ Yuji Uragami
Taiko/ Takuya Kobayashi
Marimba/ Junko Kobayashi
Open 18:00 Start 19:00
Ticket: Adv. 4,500yen, Door 5,000 yen
tel. 052-733-3709
http://www.tokuzo.com

THANK YOU FOR COMING!
Wed. July 13, Shinjuku ReNY (Tokyo)
“Leo Classics Alive”
Taiko/ Leonard Eto, Ryutaro Kaneko, Masayuki Sakamoto, Reach Yamauchi, Yasuhiro Yoshimura
Dance/ Iori Tadokoro, Yuka Izumi
Bamboo Flute/ Naomi Koizumi

Leonard Eto “Music life” is streaming now on Vimeo.
 

 
The theme of this program is “Creativity“. Exploring the fascination of taiko music through three topics: Improvisation, Groove and Expression. This program is available in English.
 
Music Life “Improvisation”
 
Music Life “Groove”

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