Japanese Drummers Headlining at NJPAC

Patch readers, here’s your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Yamato – The Drummers of Japan, a troupe of Japanese taiko drummers.

Patch is giving away three pairs of tickets to the performance on Friday night, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Art Center’s Prudential Hall.

To enter, first become a Patch reader, by logging in on your local Patch site. Then send an email to the Local Editor of your site with your name and phone number with the words Yamato in the subject line to Patch. The winners will pick up their tickets at the box office. And, if you take a photo of yourself at the theater, we will post it on Patch.

Sorry, you have to take care of your own parking.

The Yamato performers are a dramatic group that combines a sense of drama with the primal power of percussion to produce one of the world’s most physical forms of music by using various sized drums – some created from 400-year-old trees – along with timpani and flute for an evening of highly charged rhythm. 

The music can be as simple as the patter of raindrops to the explosive sound of rolling thunder. 

Tickets range between $35 and $70 and are available by calling (888) 466-5722 or visiting the NJPAC box office as well as by ordering online at njpac.org. 

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center is located at 1 Center St. in Newark.