Yokohama Port Opening Festival Charity Brass Band Concert The Brass Cruise 2025

Yokohama Port Opening Festival Charity Brass Band Concert The Brass Cruise 2025," a concert by Japan's leading brass bands, musical bands, and marching units, will be held in Yokohama, the birthplace of brass band music in Japan.

　This concert will be held as a means to promote "brass band music" and "Yokohama as an international cultural city," to understand and support marine environment preservation (activities of the Japan Coast Guard), to support the Blue Feather Charity Fund (Japan Water Rescue Association), and to support the 44th Yokohama Port Opening Festival, as well as the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the people affected by the disaster. The project will be implemented as a means of supporting the "44th Yokohama Port Opening Festival".

　There will be two performances, one in the daytime and one in the evening. The theme of the daytime performance is "Hibiki" and the concert will begin at 12:10. The festival brass band, which was organized through public subscription, will resume its activities for the first time in eight years, and the gold prize winners from the junior high, high school, and general sections of the All Japan Brass Band Contest will also perform. The final performance will consist of a model performance by the Tokyo Band of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. All of the groups represent Japan with outstanding achievements, including the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award in brass band competitions. The theme of the evening performance is "Aspiration" and the concert begins at 6:30 pm. The Yokohama City Fire Band will perform in a symphonic band formation, and after welcoming a general public brass band, a marching unit representing Japan will play a standing performance.

Under the theme of "More Wind Music! Yokohama's unique and special musical experience will be offered under the theme of "More Wind Music!　More information will be announced as it becomes available.