{"id":1315,"date":"2014-07-11T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2014-07-11T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T05:15:30","slug":"first-one-earth-tour-concert-in-nanyo-in-13-years-by-narumi-matsuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140711_1315.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First One Earth Tour Concert in Nanyo in 13 Years&#8221; by Narumi Matsuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140711_1315.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140711_1315.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;First One Earth Tour Concert in Nanyo in 13 Years&#8221; by Narumi Matsuda\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">First Kodo Concert in Nanyo in 13 Years<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_4315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_4315-340x210.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Narumi Matsuda\" width=\"320\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CIMG6166-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Narumi Matsuda\" height=\"198\" \/><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am a member of Kodo&#8217;s staff and Kodo gave a performance on July 4th in my hometown, Nanyo City in Yamagata Prefecture. This venue has been holding concerts since the 80&#8217;s when Kodo began and it is going to close its doors for good soon, so we were invited there as their final\u00a0event. They began with a Kodo performance and wanted to finish as they had started.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of memories of this hall from when I was little and to see the Kodo members perform there, well it was like I was being shown how my past and present are connected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0570-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Narumi Matsuda\" width=\"190\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small town but the concert was sold out! I think it&#8217;s thanks to the great efforts of the hosting\u00a0committee. The audience got really excited and their response even managed to surprise to the performers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CIMG6136-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"\u3054\u4e3b\u50ac\u306e\u307f\u306a\u3055\u307e\u3068\u8a18\u5ff5\u64ae\u5f71\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This venue will disappear but I hope that someday there will be a new opportunity for the sound of Kodo to return here again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20140510oet_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1196 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/news20140510oet-340x377.jpg\" alt=\"news20140510oet\" width=\"122\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Kodo Concert in Nanyo in 13 Years I am a member of Kodo&#8217;s staff and Kodo gave a performance on July 4th in my hometown, Nanyo City in Yamagata Prefecture. This venue has been holding concerts since the 80&#8217;s when Kodo began and it is going to close its doors for good soon, so we were invited there as their final\u00a0event. They began with a Kodo performance and wanted to finish as they had started. I have a lot of memories of this hall from when I was little and to see the Kodo members perform there, well it was like I was being shown how my past and &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140711_1315.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}