Events Sep. 02, 2011 - 05:30AM JST ( 4 )

TOKYO —

Mate Rock is a music extravaganza featuring monumental performers from Australia and Japan. The event has been organized by a volunteer group to help the people of Tohoku.

We invite you to contribute by attending. You can help lay the foundations for some of Tohoku’s brightest and most adventurous young people to travel overseas on student exchange for the next 10 years. The concert will finish late on the night of Saturday Sept 10, but your contribution will make a direct difference to the people of Tohoku until 2022 and beyond

Many will know the venue, Hakuba, as a top alpine ski resort in Nagano, 4 hours from Tokyo and 3 hours from Nagoya. Hakuba is also a great place to spend a summer weekend, escaping the heat of the coastal plains in the cool mountain air.

Add to that a feast of music, and this will be a weekend to remember.

This is an open air concert at the base of well known ski slope Hakuba 47. Open air seating will have access to concessions where food and drink can be purchased. And those contributing long term to the charity by purchasing sponsors tickets will be entertained both indoors and outdoors with a gourmet buffet and fine wine as the concert proceeds.

Arrangements have been made by very professional ski school and outdoors companies for entertaining children who prefer something other than rock music.

See the Mate Rock website (www.materock.com) for details on how to purchase tickets and book accommodation. The people of Hakuba host many thousands of visitors during the winter season, and they are pulling out all stops to welcome visitors to this summer concert too.

Event Details

When: Saturday Sept 10 from 12 noon until 8:45 p.m.

Tickets: 15,000 yen per person (Sponsor packages also available for long-term donors).

For bookings and accommodation, visit www.materock.com

For further inquiries, email joe.rigby@housingjapan.com or rcohen@village-cellars.co.jp

Charity

Our Charity Partner is Rotary Club Japan District 2520 (Iwate and Miyagi – two of the most affected prefectures by the Tohoku earthquake). The proceeds from Mate Rock will go directly to their Youth Exchange Program.

Sponsor

Mate Rock is proudly sponsored by the Phoenix Hotel Hakuba. The hotel has generously donated the cost of the artists and transport to Japan.

Program

12 noon (Honmoku Blues Express, Doggy T and The LD’s, Tokyo Hitmen); 13:30 (Jenny Talia); 14:30 (Pinky Piglets); 15:15 (Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson); 16:30 (The Angels featuring Dave Gleeson); 18:15 (Jimmy Barnes and Mahalia Barnes).

About the Artists

Jimmy Barnes is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 13 charting solo albums, including nine No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist.

The Angels featuring Dave Gleesons are a hard rock band that formed in Adelaide, Australia in 1970. The band later relocated to Sydney and enjoyed huge success well into the 1990s. Still actively touring and performing, The Angels are not only one of Australia’s greatest ever rock legends, but its longest surviving band with many dedicated fans.

Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson is a comedy singer/songwriter who uses his heavy Australian accent/style with great success. Without the aid of radio or TV coverage (due to the explicit, crude and sexual nature of his songs and general humor), he has built up a widespread cult following not only in Australia but globally.