Sat. March 8th
Open 16:30 Start 17:00
Sun. March 9th.
Open 12:30 Start 13:00
Flower Expo Memorial Hall, Osaka
“Kemono Michi” won the Audience Award in Milan, Italy in 2024.
“Kemono Michi” is a path that is created in mountains and forests by the passage of wild animals. It is also used as a metaphor to mean “choosing a different way of life from a peaceful and safe one and living that way.”
A few years ago, I went into the forest several times during a period when I was cut off from contact with people. Since that experience, I have been able to face the taiko drums from a perspective I had never seen before and find new sounds.
“Kemono Michi” premiered in Milan, Italy in 2024 and won the Audience Award as the work most enthusiastically loved by the audience.
Based on the concept of the work, I will recreate “Naniwa’s Kemono Michi” with musicians based in Kansai.
We will guide you to the mysterious “Kemono Michi” through the sound of the taiko drums.
Directed by Leonard Eto
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Iori Tadokoro（dance）
Takeru Matsushita（taiko）
Yuki Tabara（bamboo flute, taiko）
Mari Murakami（bamboo flute, taiko）
Masaya Teramachi（bamboo flute）
Keitaro Hosokawa（tap）
ticket
adv. 5,000 yen
door 5,500 yen
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Leonard Eto “Kemono Michi”
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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
