With their catchphrase ‘Minyo is back in town!’, musical ensemble Minyo Crusaders announced that they will return to Europe for the fourth time for a short tour consisting of four shows, with the tour final at music festival Best Kept Secret.
After releasing Echoes of Japan, Minyo Crusaders’ debut album in 2017 (and a reissue by Mais Um in 2019), it was followed up in 2020 with a mini-album, Minyo Cumbiero, on which Minyo Crusaders joined forces with Colombian cumbia radicals Frente Cumbiero to focus on combining Japanese folk songs with Colombian styles. They also released another digital live album from their performance at Le Guess Who? in 2019. The long-awaited second album, 日本民謡珍道中 (Nihon Minyo Chindochu (Tour of Japan)), was released in November 2023.
The first time the group was in Europe for a tour, we had the chance to interview Katsumi Tanaka, guitarist and co-founder of Minyo Crusaders, to talk about the start of the group, combining min’yo and Latin, African, Caribbean and Asian rhythms, and the challenges of the group.
Minyo Crusaders European Tour 2024 Dates
Tuesday, June 4, 2024: Alice – Copenhagen, Denmark
Wednesday, June 5, 2024: Nefertiti – Gothenburg, Sweden
Thursday, June 6, 2024: Cosmopolite – Oslo, Norway
Friday, June 7, 2024: Best Kept Secret Festival – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
