Yasukatsu Oshima Solo Concert in Hanaichizen, Kanagawa, Japan
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a solo concert in Kamakura City, Kanagawa on October 2 2010. The concert will be held in 'Hanaichizen'. More detailed information about the concert is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
August 01, 2010 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima Solo Concert in Cafemilton, Miyagi, Japan
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a solo concert in Shiroishi City, Miyagi, on November 13 2010. The concert will be held in 'Cafemilton'. More detailed information about the concert is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
July 23, 2010 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima Solo Concert in Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a solo concert in CITY JACK, Ishigaki City, Okinawa, on August 11 2010. More detailed information about the concert is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
photo: Yasukatsu Oshima
July 13, 2010 Concerts
"Ryukyu no Kaze 2010" in Foodpal Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Yasukatsu Oshima will appear in a festival concert in Kumamoto city, Kumamoto in September. In this festival concert, "Ryukyu no Kaze 2010", singers from the islands of Okinawa will perform shimauta (island songs). You can also enjoy meals and drinks of Okinawa and Kumamoto.
Other performers: Sadao China, Kazufumi Miyazawa, BEGIN、Yukito Ara with Satoshi "Sunday" Nakasone, Isamu Shimoji, Keiko Kinjo, Yasunori Kinjo, Claudia Oshiro, Sadahito China, Yurie Kinjo, Kariyushi, Rumi Ota, Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko, Ryudo Uzaki. MC: Mitsuru Tamaki, Ai Iwashimizu.
More detailed information about the concert is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
photo: Ryukyu no Kaze 2009
July 10, 2010 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima concert in Hayama, Kanagawa (Japan)
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a concert in Hayama Town, Kanagawa on August 28 2010. The concert will be held in 'Blue Moon', a seaside clubhouse on the beach of Isshiki Kaigan (Isshiki Beach). Masahiro Takekawa will accompany Oshima on violin and mandolin.
More detailed information about the concert is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
Isshiki Kaigan is a beautiful beach located on the south coast of the Miura Peninsula, about 50km south from the centre of Tokyo. (Hayama Town Office Homepage)
Yasukatsu Oshima has given a concert every year in 'Blue Moon' since its foundation in 1997. It was Ms. Miwa Natori who invited Oshima to Blue Moon in 1997. In 1999, she became Director of Ban Rom Sai, a home for HIV positive orphans in Chiang Mai , Thailand . (Ban Rom Sai Website)
The Ban Rom Sai shop is open inside 'Blue Moon' (where Yasukatsu Oshima will perform) and Ban Rom Sai goods and crafts are available there. Purchasing these products will support Ban Rom Sai.
photo: Keigo Saito
July 10, 2010 Concerts
Solo concert in Okinawa (Japan)
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a solo concert in Naha City, Okinawa in June.
More detailed information is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
May 17, 2010 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima monthly concert in Kyoto (Japan)
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a monthly solo concert in Coffee House Jittoku, Kyoto, from July to December 2010.
More detailed information is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
Coffee House Jittoku began in 1973 in Kyoto. In this atmospheric place, originally an old sake brewery building, Yasukatsu Oshima will present many island songs in a solo performance.
May 17, 2010 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima 'Shimauta Kai 2010 Haru (island songs concert, 2010 Spring) ' at Yamamoto Nohgakudo, Osaka, Japan
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a concert in Osaka City after an interval of a year on April 24 2010.
The concert will be held at Yamamoto Nohgakudo (Yamamoto Noh Theater), the oldest Noh Theater in Osaka, which is authorized as a Japanese tangible heritage site.
Mika Uchizato, the young female singer, also born in Okinawa, on Minami Daito island, will appear as a guest with Yasukatsu Oshima.
At this concert the musicians will perform without any Sound Reinforcement (SR) or Public Address (PA) systems, and they will sing without microphones. Photo: Keigo Saito (taken at Yamamoto Noh Theater)
"Mika Uchizato is one of the few young singers who convey surely and steadily the old songs of Okinawa. The brightness of her singing is increasing in its depth every year. I hope you will enjoy our Shimauta concert with the deep feeling of Okinawa, at the Noh Theater".
Yasukatsu Oshima
Advance tickets will be on sale on February 13, 2010.
More detailed information is available on the 'Schedule' page of this website.
Photo: Mika Uchizato
January 18, 2010 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima monthly concert in Kyoto (Japan)
Yasukatsu Oshima will give a monthly solo concert in Coffee House Jittoku, Kyoto, from January to June 2010.
More detailed information is available on the "Schedule" page of this website.
Coffee House Jittoku began in 1973 in Kyoto. In this atmospheric place, originally an old sake brewery building, Yasukatsu Oshima will present many island songs in a solo performance.
Photo: Keigo Saito (1999)
December 12, 2009 Concerts
Yasukatsu Oshima went to India
Yasukatsu Oshima went to India in November 2009, with Kanako Hatoma and Satoshi 'Sunday' Nakasone, to perform in four cities, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata.
In India, five concerts and two cultural exchange programs were organized by The Japan Foundation, The Consulate General of Japan, Munbai, The Consulate General of Japan, Chennai, and The Consulate General of Japan, Kolkata, with the cooperation of the Embassy of Japan at New Delhi. The concerts in Chennai was organized with ABK-AOTS Dosokai and Tamil Nadu Centre.
More detailed information about the concerts is available on the "Okinawan Folksongs Performed in India" page of the Japan Foundation's website.
The concerts and the cultural exchange programs have been really successful. The musicians and the members of the tour would like to express their deepest gratitude to the audiences in India and to all the people who were involved in this tour.
Here are some of the newspaper articles on the concerts.
'Island songs in a coastal city' THE TIMES OF INDIA (November 18, 2009)
'Flavour of the islands' THE TIMES OF INDIA (December 2, 2009)
'From Okinawa with love' THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS (November 21, 2009)
'A Japanese song in Chennai' NEWS TODAY (November 18, 2009)
'Songs of the Soil' INDIAN EXPRESS(November 28, 2009)
In addition, the newspapers below carried articles on the concert.
DAILY THANTHI (November 18, 2009)
TAMIL SUDAR (November 18, 2009)
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS (November 13, 2009) (November 14, 2009)
TRINITY MIRROR (November 13, 2009)
MAALAI SUDAR (November 18, 2009)
A newspaper website http://www.dinamalar.com is broadcasting a news video about the concert. The interviewee in this video is Mr. M. R. Ranganathan, the chairman of ABK-AOTS Dosokai, one of the organisers of the concert in Chennai. He has been engaged in cultural exchange between India and Japan for more than 30 years.
Photo: the press conference at Chennai
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