We had a Zoom meeting with Mr. Mizukami, who lives in Suzu.
He told us about the way things are in Suzu these days.
Listening to him, we could feel how the environment around the people there is changing constantly as time passes.
For the day of the concert, we are planning to put a 10 mim long video for a short introduction to the people in the UK. Thinking that it would be good to show not only the aftermath of the disaster, but also what things were like before the disaster,
I was able to use footage from the film ‘Suzu no Jichan’ that Mr. Mizukami made with the community of Suzu.
As I worked on it, I also started to think that I would like to visit there one day.
Midori visited Suzu in 2010 as part of Onkatsu Support Project, and has continued to be involved in music activities in the area since then.
When I spoke to Midori about wanting to do something for the people affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, I was thinking that she would probably have been to the Noto Peninsula as she does concerts all over Japan, but I didn’t know that she was worried about the people of Suzu, who had suffered so much damage.
This led to the inspiration for this concert. The way people are connected makes all sorts of things possible.
Photos：Mr Mizukami (Narrating in Midori’s project, by the sea)
