2024-2025 Concert Season Announcement
Nagata Shachu is thrilled to announce its 27th annual concert season with three unique and exciting offerings that are sure to satisfy everyone’s musical tastes. Tickets are on sale for every concert, so buy your tickets early before they sell out!
Friday, October 4 Centre Culturel De Beloeil, Quebec
https://centreculturelbeloeil.tuxedobillet.com/main/nagata-shachu
Sunday, October 6 Le National, Montreal, Quebec
https://latribu-lenational.tuxedobillet.com/LeNational/nagata-shachu
Monday, October 7 Shenkman Centre for the performing Arts, Ottawa
https://shenkmanarts.ca/en/nagata-shachu-taiko
Wednesday, October 9 Kingston Grand Theatre
https://www.kingstongrand.ca/events/nagata-shachu
Thursday, October 10 Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto
https://harbourfrontcentre.com/event/kaze-wind/
Saturday, October 12 Burlington Performing Arts Centre
https://burlingtonpac.ca/events/nagata-shachu/
CONCERT 2
A casual and intimate concert featuring shamisen and taiko player Yoshiyuki Kimura from Sapporo, Japan.
Tickets: https://HeartbeatHokkaido.eventbrite.ca
General admission – All tickets $30 plus tax and service fees
Date: Sunday, November 24 at 7 pm.
Performance duration: Approximately 70 minutes
Venue: Tranzac Club Main Hall, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Nagata Shachu Japanese taiko and music group proudly presents the second concert of its 2024-2025 concert season. This intimate, eighty-minute concert ‘Heartbeat of Hokkaido’ features master taiko and three stringed Tsugaru shamisen master Yoshiyuki Kimura (from Sapporo, Hokkaido) accompanied by Momoe Endo (Sapporo), in collaboration with Toronto-based shamisen and folk singer Aki Takahashi and taiko duo Korokoro (Kiyoshi Nagata and Akemi Akachi). With only 150 seats, this performance will be sure to sell out so get your tickets before they are gone!
The first half of the concert will feature traditional folk songs using the Tsugaru shamisen. This type of shamisen and style of music originated from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture, with its fast-paced rhythms, lilting melodies, flashy finger work, and heavy emphasis on improvisation. The second half concert will feature both modern and traditional taiko pieces using a wide variety of taiko drums performed by Kimura, Endo, and Korokoro duo consisting of Kiyoshi Nagata and Akemi Akachi.
This is a rare opportunity to see master artists from northern Japan which has a diverse and rich musical history and culture. Yoshiyuki Kimura was born in Sapporo (Japan) in 1982. At the age of ten he began playing the traditional taiko drum. During a school trip to Aomori at the age of 15, he saw a concert of the Japanese string instrument Tsugaru-Shamisen. In 2001 he trained in taiko playing with the world-famous taiko group “Kodo”. Since then he has taken part in various national competitions with both the taiko drum and the Tsugaru shamisen and received several prizes. He runs his own school in Sapporo, but also offers workshops abroad. In 2013 he founded the “Yoshiyuki Kimura Culture Foundation”, which is committed to promoting regional Japanese culture and training professional players.
Early bird discount – save $5 off all regular priced adult tickets using code NSEB25 valid until January 30
Date: Saturday, March 29 at 8 pm
Venue: Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W, Toronto
Don’t miss Nagata Shachu’s season’s finale concert featuring a collaboration with Haneum. Haneum is a band formed in 2017 by members of The Korean Traditional Music Association of Canada. Composed of musicians who studied traditional Korean music, and western jazz, Haneum aims to create and perform music that reflects the identity of its Korean-Canadian musicians. Haneum is Korean for “One Sound”, “Korean Sound” or the “Tone of the Soul”. Joining Haneum and also performing solo is Korean drummer/percussionist Eunji Kim (Kklily). Kklily is a graduate of the Korean National University of Arts majoring in percussion and traditional arts. In 2017 she won the Grand Prize in the Gang Gam-chan Festival National High Court Pansori Contest. Kklily has performed in Korea, Denmark, Sweden, Mongolia, France and Germany. Since moving to Canada in 2022, she has performed at various festivals and events throughout Toronto and is an artist and teacher of The Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada.
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