Yamato

The Taiko Drummers of Japan return to Erie with a new and spirited program. Their unbridled enthusiasm and superhuman feats of coordination, acrobatics, and humor communicate the ancestral belief that the drumbeat, like the heartbeat, is the very pulse of life. With a massive Taiko drum made from a 400-year-old tree as its centerpiece, Shin-On (“Heartbeat”) blends Yamato’s phenomenally powerful rhythmic thunder with Japanese music of delicate beauty, celebrating the richness of Japan’s cultural traditions.