WHEN & WHERE:
Saturday, January 25 at 8:00 pm
Berklee Performance Center
Boston, MA
Wednesday, February 12 & Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 pm
Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
Asheville, NC
Sunday, February 23 at 7:00 pm
McAninch Arts Center
Glen Ellyn, IL
Wednesday, March 12 at 7:30 pm
Lone Tree Arts Center
Lone Tree, CO
Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 pm
Mondavi Center
Davis, CA
Saturday, March 22 at 3:00 pm
The Soraya
Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, March 25 at 7:00 pm
The Madison Center for the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
Friday, March 28 at 7:30 pm
The Moore Theatre
Seattle, WA
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
"...he physically powerful cohort of musician-athletes work and live together as a community in the Asuka Village, said to be the birthplace of Japanese culture. There they create their own musical compositions, theater productions, sets, lighting design, choreography, performance techniques, costumes, makeup, stage settings and props. They make their own bachi sticks used to play the traditional Japanese instruments, beginning each show by hitting a Wadaiko drum weighing half a ton, made from a single piece of wood from a 400-year-old tree.
In every program, the drummers play 35-40 different Japanese drums, which are divided into four types: Miya-daiko, Hirado-taiko, Okedo-daiko and Shime-daiko, each varying in size and tone. Additionally, the troupe play J..."
