Tetsuya T
March 14, 2025 at 5:22 pm
The Kyoto Shimbun first reported on 12 March on the 29 April event, which had already been announced by the Uji City Tourist Association. The Kyoto Tachibana High School brass band is highly likely to participate. If they do, it may be the first time their version of the 2025 parade is performed. Japan’s Golden Week, late April/early May, will be busy for Tachibana.
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Title: Music event to be held in one of the ‘Hibike Euphonium’ settings (in southern Kyoto Prefecture) What is the content of the event in the anime’s ‘holy place’?
On 29 April, a music event featuring brass bands from junior and senior high schools in Kyoto Prefecture will be held for the first time at the Prefectural Yamashiro Sports Park (Taiyo-no-oka) in Hirono-cho, Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture. The event is based on the popular anime ‘Hibike! Euphonium’, which depicts high school students devoted to their brass band, this park is one of the locations used as a model for the scene depicted in the film.
The musical event is the Sun Sun Open Air Festival 2025. It is organised by the Kyoto Prefectural Brass Band Federation and the Kyoto Parks Corporation, which manages the park. Junior and senior high school students from about 25 schools in Kyoto Prefecture will perform in a parade of about 800 metres around the park, followed by a performance in the ball field.
The Sunrise Festival, a music event in which many brass band clubs participate, is depicted along with the realistic scenery of the park, in the Kyoto Animation (Uji City)
According to the corporation, similar events were held in the park by neighbouring junior and senior high school students in the 1980s and 1990s. As the park has come into the limelight as a ‘sacred place’ for anime due to the broadcast of Euphonium, this event was planned to revive the park as a place where brass bands can once again flourish in the real world.
The corporation says: ‘We want to give people a chance to see junior and senior high school students working hard in brass bands. We also hope that people will enjoy the comparison with animation’. The aim is to make this an annual event in the future.
Free admission (parking fee required). In case of rain, the event will be held in the gymnasium. A market will also be held to sell food and other items. Details will be announced on the park’s website around the end of March.
Thanks for the translation and bringing it out of the paywall!
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