Japan's Kodo Drummers Coming to Sony Centre For The Performing Arts in 2015

For the first time in four years, Japan's world famous Kodo Drummers return to Toronto! Tickets are on sale now for its groundbreaking new show Kodo One Earth Tour: Mystery, which runs one night only - Thursday, March 12, 2015 @ 8pm - at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, presented by Hammond Associates. Tickets are available by calling the Box Office at 1-855-872-SONY (7669), by visiting www.sonycentre.ca or in person at the Sony Centre Box Office.

Kodo forges new directions for a vibrant living art-form with Mystery, a breath-taking spectacle that explores the limitless possibilities of the traditional Japanese drum, the taiko. Taking Kodo to yet another frontier, Mystery transcends the real world as it voyages to a wondrous realm that lies in the beyond, where sacred beasts and myriad gods roam. Kodo's primal foundation-shaking rhythms and displays of muscular endurance astound and delight audiences of all ages. See a short video here: www.sonycentre.ca/

The Toronto engagement comes during the North American leg of Kodo's annual One Earth Tour that highlights Kodo's message of global unity through rhythm. Canadian dates: Montreal March 7 at Place des Arts, Ottawa March 9 at the National Arts Centre; Toronto March 12 at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

Kodo's virtuosity ranges from electrifying, pounding rhythms - as old as our collective heartbeat - to quiet and reflective pieces constructed with subtle strings and delicate flutes, all performed in a dazzling display of kamikaze speed, dexterity, precision and muscular endurance.

Kodo has seen a departure from its traditional costume styles and musical direction since famed Kabuki artist Tamasaburo Bando took the helm as full-time artistic director in 2012. The second Kodo program directed by Tamasaburo Bando, Mystery represents a further evolution of the group's new expressions and promises to transport both seasoned fans and first-time viewers alike to uncharted artistic territory as it presents the "mystery" and otherworldly splendour in Japanese folk arts and ritual.