Improvisation tour official site
 
Fri. September 1
Haremame (Daikanyama/ Tokyo)
Open 18:30 Start 19:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Tatsuya Nakamura (drums)
ticket: 5,000 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Haremame: 03-5456-8880
Haremame
 
Sat. September 2
Haremame (Daikanyama/ Tokyo)
Open 11:30 Start 12:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Ryutaro Kaneko (taiko)
Choi Jaechol (Korean drums)
ticket: 5,000 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Haremame: 03-5456-8880
Haremame
 
Sun. September 10
Chichibu Retreat Field Mahora Inahoyama (Chichibu/ Saitama)
Open 14:30 Start 15:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Ryutaro Kaneko (taiko)
Choi Jaechol (Korean drums)
Chichibu Yatai Bayashi (Oganomachi trad.)
ticket: 4,500 yen
U-25: 2,000 yen
Mahora Inahoyama: 0494-62-1688
Mahora Inahoyama
 
Thu. September 14
Nagoya TOKUZO (Nagoya)
Open 18:00 Start 19:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Tatsuya Nakamura (drums)
ticket: 4,500yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
TOKUZO: 052-733-3709
 
Fri. September 15
Nara Evans Castle Hall (Nara)
Open 18:30 Start 19:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Steve Eto (percussion)
Tatsuya Nakamura (drums)
 
Neikoza/ Jyubei Asano (taiko) , Miki Kiyama (per.,taiko) , Hanae Fuji (taiko), Emotional bamboo flute and more.
Takeru Matsushita, Yuki Tahara (taiko)
Takashi Tajima (tambourine), Ayuko Ikeda (per.)
Special thanks: Susumu Hashimoto
ticket: 5,000 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Online reservetion (Japanese)
Evans Castle Hall: 0742-25-4870
 
Sat. September 16
Noon+Cafe (Osaka)
Open 18:30 Start 19:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Tatsuya Nakamura (drums)
ticket: 4,500 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Noon+Cafe: 06-6373-4919
 
Sun. September 17
Hoshino Sato Iwafune (Katano-shi/ Osaka)
Open 15:00 Start 15:30
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Ryutaro Kaneko (taiko)
Choi Jaechol (Korean drums)
Saeki Bayashi (taiko)
ticket: 4,500 yen
U-25: 2,000 yen
Online reservation (Japanese)
Info. 090-5977-0123 (Saeki)
Email: atsunobu415@gmail.com
 
Mon. September 18
Kyoto METRO (Kyoto)
Matinee / Open 12:30 Start 13:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Ryutaro Kaneko (taiko)
Choi Jaechol (Korean drums)
ticket: 4,500 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Kyoto METRO: 075-752-4765
 
Mon. September 18
Kyoto METRO (Kyoto)
Evening / Open 16:30 Start 17:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Steve Eto (percussion)
Tatsuya Nakamura (drums)
ticket: 4,500 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Kyoto METRO: 075-752-4765
 
Tue. September 19
Omihachiman Shuyukan (Shiga)
Open 18:00 Start 18:30
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Ryutaro Kaneko (taiko)
Choi Jaechol (Korean drums)
Kosaji Suiryo Taiko
ticket: 4,500 yen+drink
U-25: 2,000 yen+drink
Online reservation (Japanese)
Shuyukan: 090-1960-1264 (Nishimura)
 
Wed. September 20
Kota Chominkaikan Ajisai Hall (Kotacho / Aichi)
Open 18:30 Start 19:00
Leonard Eto (taiko)
Ryutaro Kaneko (taiko)
Choi Jaechol (Korean drums)
ticket: 4,500 yen
U-25: 2,000 yen
Online reservation (Japanese)
Miura taiko: 0564-64-6785
Ajisai Hall
 
 

The third single “Straight Ahead”
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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