“The highly acclaimed debut of DRUM TAO in Broadway will represent not only Japanese entertainment but Japan itself”
-Newsweek

 

"Supernaturally fit and superbly trained… Stunning…Fully deserving of the standing ovation that the company receives."
-Herald

 

"Extraordinarily talented percussion artists, and they’re seductive, alluring performers."
-Chicago Tribune

 

"You'll regret for your life if you miss this. "
-The Central News Agency

 

"Undoubtedly one of the finest shows on offer."
-Edinburgh Evening News

 

 

 

In 2004, DRUM TAO attended the world’s largest festival of the arts - the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and made No.1 box-office smash hit of the festival in spite of their first participation.

DRUM TAO has started spreading into the overseas after their success at the Festival Fringe and three-month long-run show in Germany and Australia tour were made as their first world tour career.

After invited to perform at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, every single show was sold-out on their first North American tour visiting 44 cities totalling 50 shows throughout the U.S.

And now DRUM TAO has been expanding worldwide and played over 24 countries, 500 cities with 7 million spectators.

 

 

 

With this worldwide achievement and over 200 shows/year in Japan, TAO received "The 6th Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner's Awards" from Japan Tourism Agency and "Outstanding Cultural Contribution" from Oita prefecture. TAO has been rewriting the whole story of traditional Japanese Drum and it proudly stays one and only and yet the greatest of all Japanese Drum Performers in Japan.