Eitetsu HAYASHI & Eitetsu Fuun no Kai "Central and North American concert tours"

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Haruka Co., Ltd.

subsidy category

Creation Grant

Grant Type

single year

FY26 Term I Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]

Hayashi Eitetsu & Eitetsu Fuun no Kai Acoustic Concert 2014“NATURE’S RHYTHM” Photo: Courtesy of Haru

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Business Overview

In this year "Japan-Caribbean Exchange Year 2014," Eitetsu Hayashi, who has been appointed as a cultural exchange envoy and is scheduled to stay mainly in New York, will give a presentation on the ongoing Taiko music (the latest stage performance expressed only by taiko drums) as well as an introduction to the next generation Taiko group "Eitetsu Fuun no Kai" which he has developed with a global perspective. It is expected that the new stage of "Taiko("Japanese Taiko" is now recognized overseas as "Taiko.")" that Eitetsu Hayashi always creates and proposes will be transmitted to the Taiko group in North America, which has a great influence, and that exchange and cultural experience with musicians from the Caribbean Gulf countries, which is a treasure house of Latin rhythm, will be a new approach to the world music from Japan that Eitetsu Hayashi aims. Performance: Eitetsu HAYASHI (Ueda Shuichiro, Hasemikita, Tashiro Makoto, Tsuji Yu)

implementation period

Saturday, October 11, 2014 San Fernando/Trinidad & Tobago Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Havana/Cuba Friday, October 17, 2014 Havana/Cuba Saturday, October 25, 2014 Buffalo/USA Monday, October 27, 2014 Dublin/USA Saturday, November 1, 2014 – 2 Sun San Francisco/USA

Place of implementation

October 11 The Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (San Fernandez) October 15 Teatro Mella (Havana) October 17 Teatro Miramar (Havana) October 25 Rockwell Hall/Buffalo State College (Buffalo) October 27 The Performing Arts Center of Dublin Coffman High School (Dublin) November 1 McKenna Hall/San Francisco University (San Francisco) November 2 McKenna Hall/San Francisco University (San Francisco)

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Profile

[Hayashi Eitetsu]
Hayashi Eitetsu, who was involved in the founding of "Sado Ondekoza 1971 ~ 1981" and "Kodo" as a central player, created creative drum expression and laid the foundation for Taiko performance, started his activities as a drum solo performer in 82. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 84 and gained an international reputation as an unprecedented Japanese drum soloist in the field of contemporary music. He created a solo-playing method of the large drum, which had not existed in Japanese tradition, and established an original expression of the drum, and made the Japanese drum known to the world as an instrument with infinite possibilities and as Japan's first world music.