These are Ema's concerts and presentations as a Ryukyu Minyo singer and sanshin player:
23 November 2024: Shioya Keirōkai 2024
This is the result of me being taken care and carried by the local society who is supporting me tremendously in my wish to become a good performer. I am filled with gratitude. Jintoo! ("Really!")
The clothing and makeup was for the kajadifuu, a traditional courtly dance which is danced at the beginning of any celebration, which three women in their seventies and me danced together synchronously, a bit earlier at this same event, which happened 23rd november 2024 and which was the keirōkai (gathering to honour the elderly) of Shioya, Uruma-Shi, Okinawa.
You can hear me introducing myself and the songs I'm playing:
*The words marked with a star are Japanese, the rest is Okinawan. I'm able to learn Okinawan gradually thanks to the many wonderful people who are taking care of me and who mostly are over 60 years old and thus speak Okinawan fluently. The lyrics of the minyō (folk songs) are in Okinawan, so this language is crucial to me.
The video is a three minutes resumée of the fifteen minutes presentation.
The man climbing the stage towards the end grabbed a sanshin (which was not properly tuned for this song 😂) and accompanied me for the last minutes 🤗
27th April 2024: "Music and dance performance from Okinawa" in Basel, Switzerland
11th August 2023: Solo utasanshin concert at "Ab uf e Spitz", a Festival near Montsujet in the Swiss Jurassic mountains.
4th and 5th August 2023: Utasanshin workshop and concert at Taiko Spirit Festival 2023 (Madetswil, Switzerland) https://taikospiritfestival.ch
15th March 2023: live @ ＲＢＣｉラジオ Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation i Radio on the "Sanshin no hi" festival
第31回 ゆかる日 まさる日 さんしんの日（第3部）
by RBCiラジオ琉球放送 on YouTube
19th February 2023: Ryukyu Minyo concert at Japan Impact Festival 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland
🇨🇭スイスより \三線まーる2023/ 動画をアップします🏔🍫✨
by 三線組合 on YouTube
11th January 2023: Singing and playing Sanshin during my Heshikiya Eisa experience (covered by Okinawa Times, NHK, RBC, QAB und OTV and Ryukyu Shimpo).
https://www.qab.co.jp/news/20230111159568.html
18th September 2022: Eisa singer / sanshin player at tr'ensemble-Fest 2022 in Pratteln, Switzerland
25th August 2022: Utasanshin workshop at Taiko Spirit Festival 2023 (Madetswil, Switzerland) https://taikospiritfestival.ch
7th Mai 2022: Eisa singer / sanshin player at Japan-Fest 2022 in Bottmingen, Switzerland
Japanische Trommeln im japanischen Garten von Roger Schnyder in Bottmingen
by regioTvplus on YouTube
23 November 2024: Shioya Keirōkai 2024
This is the result of me being taken care and carried by the local society who is supporting me tremendously in my wish to become a good performer. I am filled with gratitude. Jintoo! ("Really!")
The clothing and makeup was for the kajadifuu, a traditional courtly dance which is danced at the beginning of any celebration, which three women in their seventies and me danced together synchronously, a bit earlier at this same event, which happened 23rd november 2024 and which was the keirōkai (gathering to honour the elderly) of Shioya, Uruma-Shi, Okinawa.
You can hear me introducing myself and the songs I'm playing:
Haisai, chuuwo uganabira.
Wannee suisu kara chaabitaru ema yaaibiin.
Kamiya Kooichi shinshii kara minyoo naratooibiin.
Naratti kara gokagetsu* natooibiin.
Kuchoo kara tanomarete* chaabitan.
Ikkyokuya bachikwaibushi utudukisabira.
Tsugee gutushibi nu uta yaaibiin.
Saigo* munushiribushi yaaibiin.
Ippee nihwee deebiru.
*The words marked with a star are Japanese, the rest is Okinawan. I'm able to learn Okinawan gradually thanks to the many wonderful people who are taking care of me and who mostly are over 60 years old and thus speak Okinawan fluently. The lyrics of the minyō (folk songs) are in Okinawan, so this language is crucial to me.
Hello everybody, how are you.
I'm Ema who came from Switzerland.
I'm learning minyō from my teacher Kamiya Kōichi.
5 months passed since I started learning from him.
I was invited by the head of the neighbourhood self-governing body, so here I am.
I present you Bachikwaibushi as the first song.
The next song is Gutushibi nu uta.
The last song is Munushiribushi.
Thank you very much.
The video is a three minutes resumée of the fifteen minutes presentation.
The man climbing the stage towards the end grabbed a sanshin (which was not properly tuned for this song 😂) and accompanied me for the last minutes 🤗
27th April 2024: "Music and dance performance from Okinawa" in Basel, Switzerland
11th August 2023: Solo utasanshin concert at "Ab uf e Spitz", a Festival near Montsujet in the Swiss Jurassic mountains.
4th and 5th August 2023: Utasanshin workshop and concert at Taiko Spirit Festival 2023 (Madetswil, Switzerland) https://taikospiritfestival.ch
15th March 2023: live @ ＲＢＣｉラジオ Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation i Radio on the "Sanshin no hi" festival
第31回 ゆかる日 まさる日 さんしんの日（第3部）
by RBCiラジオ琉球放送 on YouTube
19th February 2023: Ryukyu Minyo concert at Japan Impact Festival 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland
🇨🇭スイスより \三線まーる2023/ 動画をアップします🏔🍫✨
by 三線組合 on YouTube
11th January 2023: Singing and playing Sanshin during my Heshikiya Eisa experience (covered by Okinawa Times, NHK, RBC, QAB und OTV and Ryukyu Shimpo).
https://www.qab.co.jp/news/20230111159568.html
18th September 2022: Eisa singer / sanshin player at tr'ensemble-Fest 2022 in Pratteln, Switzerland
25th August 2022: Utasanshin workshop at Taiko Spirit Festival 2023 (Madetswil, Switzerland) https://taikospiritfestival.ch
7th Mai 2022: Eisa singer / sanshin player at Japan-Fest 2022 in Bottmingen, Switzerland
Japanische Trommeln im japanischen Garten von Roger Schnyder in Bottmingen
by regioTvplus on YouTube