Takatori Family Concert: A Small Concert in the Takatori Shopping Street

Takatori Family Concert | A Small Concert in the Takatori Shopping Street

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A free community music event

Takatori Family Concert

A small concert in the Takatori Shopping Street | since 2021

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The Takatori Family Concert is a free music event held every December since 2021 in the Takatori Shopping Street, where Takeru Eye Clinic is located. With live violin, cello, percussion, and piano, we present arrangements of Ghibli and Disney songs, J-pop, and Christmas songs so that everyone from children to adults can enjoy them. Members of the a cappella circle “Sains voice” of Seinan Gakuin University have also performed.

This is a shopping street project sponsored by the Takatori Shopping Street Promotion Association, the Takatori Cultural Center, and others. Infants and preschoolers are warmly welcome, and children who attend also receive a sweet from the shopping street as a gift. Takeru Yoshimura (director of the Takatori Shopping Street Promotion Association) plans the event, arranges the music, and plays the piano, and Takeru Eye Clinic is also a sponsor.

History of the Concerts

History

Sunday, December 12, 2021, 13:00 1st concert

Takatori Cultural Center

Sakura Matsumoto (violin) / Sayuri Nagano (cello) / Takeru Yoshimura (piano, arrangements)

Sunday, July 3, 2022 Summer special

Wine Shokudo Biowarun, Fujisaki branch

Dan Nakanishi (violin) / Sayuri Nagano (cello) / Atsushi Ideno (percussion) / Takeru Yoshimura (piano, arrangements) Opening: Sains Voice

Sunday, December 18, 2022, 14:00 2nd concert

Takatori Cultural Center

Takatori Strings (Dan Nakanishi, Sayuri Nagano, Atsushi Ideno, Takeru Yoshimura) / Sains voice / Guest: ocarina player Saeri

About 70 people attended (from the December 2022 issue of Takatori Shimbun)

Sunday, December 17, 2023, 15:00 3rd concert

Takatori Cultural Center

Maya Egashira (violin) / Yumito Aramaki (cello) / Atsushi Ideno (percussion) / Takeru Yoshimura (piano, arrangements)

Sunday, December 15, 2024, 15:00 4th concert

Takatori Cultural Center

SAYAKA (violin) / Yumito Aramaki (cello) / Atsushi Ideno (percussion) / Takeru Yoshimura (piano, arrangements) / Sains voice

Sunday, December 7, 2025, 16:00 5th concert

Chicken & Vegetable SunAo

Maya Egashira (violin) / Yumito Aramaki (cello) / Atsushi Ideno (percussion) / Takeru Yoshimura (piano, arrangements) / Sains voice

Held at the same time as the Takatori Garage Marché

Sponsors: Takatori Shopping Street Promotion Association, Takatori Cultural Center, NPO GREEN’S, and Takeru Eye Clinic (and Besupro Kyushu in 2025). Some sponsors differ by year.

Records on Instagram

Moments

The shopping street, the Cultural Center, and visitors have also posted.

2021 – 1st concert
Takeru Eye Clinic (@takeru_eye)
“The children listened so hard.”

2022 summer
Takeru Eye Clinic (@takeru_eye)
Announcement of the event at Biowarun

2022 summer
A visitor (@shirohana.m)
“Live music in a lovely venue soothed my tired mind and body.”

2022 – 2nd concert
@kounosukekatou
“A Christmas present from the Takatori Shopping Street.”

2022 – 2nd concert
Takeru Eye Clinic (@takeru_eye)
“Fun pieces arranged for strings, for the children too.”

2023 – 3rd concert
Takatori Cultural Center (@bunkacenter_takatori)
Event announcement

2024 – 4th concert
Takeru Eye Clinic (@takeru_eye)
Scenes from the day (video)

2025 – 5th concert
Takatori Shopping Street official account (@takatori_shoutengai)
“It has become an annual tradition.”

2025 – 5th concert
@masakimatsumoto0609
Announcement of the simultaneous Takatori Garage Marché

2025 – 5th concert
A marché vendor (@yokoe_mayuka)
“At SunAo you can enjoy music while you eat.”

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Our heartfelt thanks to all the musicians who performed, to the members of Seinan Gakuin University’s Sains voice, to the Takatori Cultural Center, Biowarun, and SunAo for hosting us, to the Takatori Shopping Street Promotion Association, NPO GREEN’S, and all our other sponsors, and to the families who come every year.

I arrange all of the scores myself for this ensemble.