演奏と発表会　Concerts and presentations

These are Ema's concerts and presentations as a Ryūkyū/Uchinaa Minyō singer and sanshin player:

19 october 2025: Uruma-Shi Bunkasai 2025
舞台上で歌う女性2人と男性6人。うち7人が三線を、1人がギターを手にしている。

Group concert.

24 august 2025: Presentation Ceremony for Sanshin Donated to the French National Museum
Photo showing Ema playing on stage in front of the audience.

Photo showing Ema playing on stage in front of the audience.

Mini-Concert ath the Presentation Ceremony in Katsuren Haebaru for Sanshin Donated to the French National Museum.

26 march 2025: Sanshin for our Sisters and Brothers Around the World
Photo from behind the stage, showing Ema playing and a part of the audience

Solo mini-concert at the sanshin awarding ceremony for the Santa Maria Okinawa Performing Arts Society and the Chicago Okinawa Kenjin Kai of “Sanshin for our Sisters and Brothers Around the World”.

4 march 2025: Sanshin No Hi
Stage photo of the event

Photo of the ritual at the praying site for Akainku on Tsuken Island

Participation in the opening ceremony of the International Sanshin Day Festival on Tsuken Island, with group concert. Coverage in an article of the newspaper Ryukyu Shimpo.

12 January 2025: New Year's celebration of Akano
Photo of the event, showing Ema playing on stage, and people dancing in front of the stage

Solo concert at the New Year's celebration of Akano, Uruma-Shi.

2 January 2025: 10th anniversary ceremony of “Presenting the Sanshin to Our Sisters and Brothers Around the World”.
Photo showing Ema playing and a part of the audience

Photo showing Ema playing and a part of the audience

Solo mini-concert at the 10th anniversary ceremony of “Presenting the Sanshin to Our Sisters and Brothers Around the World”.

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).