Hikashu's monthly concert series continues in 2025. Currently, the announced dates are as follows:
January 25
February 26
March 26
April 24
Hikashu Monthly Concert
@ Star Pine's Cafe
Kichijoji, Tokyo
open 19:00 start 19:30
adv 4,000 yen - at door 4,500 yen
Star Pine's Cafe, Kichijoji, Tokyo
Hikashu just posted a video of new year messages from the members. Here's what they said.
Makigami Koichi
Happy new year. This year we would like to release a new album. And there is a plan of the 3rd collection of my poetry. Moreover I intend to do a solo album for the first time in a while. So stay tuned. Thank you.
Shimizu Kazuto
Hello. Last year a lot has happened and quite fruitful for the band. I'm glad about it. Hopefully the things will be like this for new year. Just keep going. Thanks for your support.
Sakaide Masami
Happy new year. Last year was kinda unfortunate because I had some problems. COVID, pneumonia, and neuralgia. So this year my motto is health first. Thank you.
Sato Masaharu
It's quite cold these days, isn't it? Happy New Year. Beside Hikashu, I plan to do various projects with people like Harada Daijiro, Carmen Maki, and Sakaide Masami. Also Hikashu continue to do monthly concert series this year so come and see us. Thank you.
Koketsu Masayo
Happy new year for 2025. This year is snake [zodiac]. So come and see the band. Also I will release a solo album this year so look forward to it. Thank you.
(alto saxophonist who joined the band this year as semi-regular member)
Mita Freeman
Happy new year. This year I'll turn 70. These days I feel free and it's ok whatever to do. The year of freedom! Happy new year. Yeah.
So, as Makigami announced, there's a plan of new albums of Hikashu and his own released this year. Can't wait! and Happy new year.
Happy New Year.
Hikashu celebrate their 46th anniversary. The band is in great shape and going strong as ever.
Their monthly concert series at Star Pine's Cafe of Kichijoji, Tokyo is now 7th year. The first appearance of the band this year will be on January 25th. It is the first of the monthly concert this year and birthday of Makigami Koichi.
This month Hikashu have completed the monthly concert series at Star Pine's Cafe at Kichijoji, Tokyo. Now it is the 6th year.
Other than that, the band did various performances with other bands. For example, they did concerts with notable acts from younger generation like Polysics, Urban Garde, and Otoboke Beaver.
And, as reported here before, Makigami Koichi received a grant from FCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a nonprofit based foundation in New York City.
Koichi Makigami - 2024 Grants to Artists - FCA websiteMakigami himself did attend the ceremony held in NYC. He said as follows:
When I attended the award ceremony in 2024, coincidentally a total solar eclipse was visible from New York City. Seeing it with eclipse glasses, I felt like the sun blessed me.
2024 has been a fruitful year for Hikashu. Hopefully the new year will be great and prosperous as well.
In May, Makigami Koichi will perform in the UK and France. The schedule is as follows: 
Makigami Koichi became a recipient of the Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA). On February 15, FCA announced the recipients and Makigami is one of them.
From the foundation's website:
FCA awards Grants to Artists in the following fields: dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. Artists are suggested and selected by their peers in a two-stage process. Each year, FCA invites dozens of distinguished artists and arts professionals to serve as nominators and propose one exceptional individual, collective, or performing group whom they feel deserves and will benefit from an unrestricted $45,000 award. Nominators are selected by field, but are free to propose artists working in any of the five areas supported. They are asked to remain anonymous. A selection panel chooses grant recipients on the basis of the merit and imaginativeness of their work and the effect such recognition and support might have at this point in their careers.
Grants to Artists are administered by a confidential nomination and selection process. Applications and unsolicited nominations are not accepted.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) is a nonprofit based foundation in New York City that offers financial support and recognition to contemporary performing and visual artists through awards for artistic innovation and potential. It was established in 1963 as the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts by artists Jasper Johns, John Cage, and others.
So Makigami earned supports from the fellow artists and that's very encouraging.
Congratulations!
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