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The world-renowned Yamato Taiko Drummers will perform 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Williams Center for Arts as part of the group’s Matsuri (Fiesta) tour of the mid-Atlantic region.
A limited number of stand-by tickets ($28 for the public and $6 for students) will be sold at 7 p.m. that evening for what is currently a sold-out performance. The drummers will give a free lecture-performance at 2:30 p.m. in the Williams Center, which is open to the public. No tickets are required.
Other performances in the 2009-10 Sound Alternatives series will be Noreum Machi, Feb. 9, $22, and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, March 9, $22.
The Yamato drummers present the age-old customs of Japanese taiko drumming, marked by large and powerful hand-crafted drums and highly physical styles of performance by a 17-member ensemble. Unlike some of its fellow touring ensembles, Yamato is composed of men and women drummers, and also includes a large array of other traditional Japanese instruments, including flutes, zithers, and shamisen.
This is the third appearance by Yamato at the Williams Center in the past decade.
The 2009-2010 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for its extraordinary support.