Japone Artists Concert at Pletterij Haarlem

Join us at our try-out show at Pletterij Haarlem, just before we will travel to London for our show at HYPER JAPAN. This show will also be streamed live for our fans worldwide who can't join this performance in person! Date:24 June (Friday) 20:00

Place: Lange Herenvest 122, 2011 BX Haarlem

Info/Tickets : https://www.pletterij.nl/event/24-jun-22-japone-muziek-theater/

Performers;

Utako Arakawa – Vocals

Ayumi Matsuda – Recorder

Yusuke Morita - Bass guitar, Manipulator

For those who want to see our performance through a livestream, we want to let you know that the website is in Dutch but you can translate the website into English with Google Translate to make the process easier.

Japone Artists to organise "LOVE UKRAINE" Charity Concert

Japone Artists will have a charity concert full of love and passion for Ukraine! This concert is scheduled to take place on Saturday 2 July 2022 at Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in the city of Haarlem (10 min walk from the station Haarlem).

The program is very special, as it will contain Original/Improvisation music, Japanese traditional/Modern music including Final Fantasy “Love Theme”, Flamenco music, Classic music (de Falla, Mozart) and Negro Spirituals Etc..! You will enjoy marvelous music with acoustic sounds in a historical beautiful space of a church in Haarlem!

In this concert, especially our new member, who has joined us last year, bass player and composer Yusuke Morita will join to perform from Tokyo, Japan. He has been working also for anime productions such as Hirune-Hime (Napping Princess),Carol & Tuesday and recently Shenmue the animation. Together with him, Japone Artists have been fervently creating original music and videos, of which two music videos got presented at the UK event HYPER JAPAN.

This concert will make an impression on people of all generations with Japanese beauty and spirits through a refined high qualified performance! Please make a reservation (limited seats) and don't miss this special concert!

Performers:

Soprano/Vocals: Utako Arakawa

Recorder: Ayumi Matsuda

Bass: Yusuke Morita

Piano: Yoshimi Kawai

Date: Saturday 2 July 2022, 20:00

Location: Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk Haarlem Witte Herenstraat 22, 2011 NV Haarlem

Admission fee: 20 Euro*

Reservation: japoneartists@gmail.com

(*Tickets at the door) Promotional material (Download)

＊All proceeds of the concert go to : “Supporting and helping the refugees from the Ukraine by the Japanese church” For the sake of supporting the refugees of the Ukraine, Ref. Nobuyuki Uchimura (The paster of Milano church /Japanese Church of the Southern Netherlands) is cooperating with the Ref. Valentin Nehro of the Baptist church in Borehove, Ukraine. Mr. Uchimura´s one of activities is to transport supplies, foods and donation money directly to the Ukraine. He drives a distance of 2,600 km round trip from Milano to Ukraine.

Mr. Uchimura says that supporting refugees is normally done by professional organizations, but at the same time, the activity of local churches is essential and should not be forgotten. My mission is helping such local churches in the Ukraine. In my view, the big problem is that children are suffering greatly. They are one of the biggest victims. I would like to help for the week such as children, family and elderly people who need great help.

＊Mr. Uchimura´s activity is reported in the following website. www.slimconference.org/ukraine (*Japanese )

Japone Artists to perform "Light in Darkness” at Heroes Made in Asia 2021

It has been confirmed that after a long absence, that the members of Japone Artists will return to the physical stage. The performance with the group will be at the first edition of Heroes Made in Asia in Gorinchem on 16 and 17 October 2021. The performances will be on both days at the same time, from 13.45.

The art collective will present a special performance with Japanese classic and contemporary music, theater, martial arts, dance and screen image-art, the show is titled "Light in Darkness".

…In a beautiful Japanese scenery with cherry blossom petals dancing around. A Japanese Geisha gets married to an American navy officer. But then a tragic story happens...

The new show, specially created for Heroes Made in Asia, is titled “Light in Darkness” and consists of 7 internationally performing Japanese artists; Utako Arakawa (Soprano/Vocals), Kazuma Glen Motomura (Dance), Ayumi Matsuda (Recorder), Yusuke Morita (Bass/Programming music), Hiromi Haneda (Screen image-art). For this performance, we will welcome the addition of two guest performers, pianist Misaki Yamada on keyboard and martial art performer Aristos for the theatrical combat. You will enjoy our extraordinary theatre combat and beautiful Japanese traditional scene with marvellous music and image-art screen! The spectacular and breathtaking show will invite you to an extraordinary world! After reaching our fans via digital platforms, such as new music videos and our video podcast "Japone Artists Talk", it is finally time to meet you all. We are looking forward to seeing you at Heroes Made in Asia 2021. Please RSVP on our Facebook events to show us that you are looking forward to seeing us again in real life! *Tickets: https://www.made-in-asia.nl/nl/

Let's introduce our guest performers! Misaki Yamada (on the left) is a pianist from Japan and studied with W.Brons at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and graduated with a masters degree. Since then, she has been mostly active with teaching many students and giving regular concerts in and outside the Netherlands. She is also a manga artist as well, so, therefore, margin the culture between western music and Japanese manga is her life work. About performing with Japone Artists at Heroes Made in Asia 2021, she said: "What an honour to join to very unique group Japone Artists this time! I hope to give some special enthusiasms and memorable time from the stage to you all great audiences. Looking forward!" Aristos (on the right) is a professional martial arts stage performer, but that may not make clear what exactly he has in store. Aristos shared a message with us to explain a bit: "Hello, my name is Aristos. I have a great passion for performing and martial arts. A lot of people think of fighting when they hear martial arts, but it couldn't be less true. Martial arts has fighting but also music, dance, mythical creatures and so much more, during my performance I want to show You a part of my view on Martial arts. Now sit back and enjoy, see you soon!" If you want to know more about Aristos, please give a look at his Instagram profile.