"Hibiya Music Festival" Announces 16 Acts Including fumino, ORANGE RANGE, Ohzora Kimishima, SOIL, and KREVA
The first batch of performing artists has been announced for the free music event "Hibiya Music Festival 2026," which will take place on May 30 and 31 at Hibiya Park and surrounding facilities in Tokyo.
The "Hibiya Music Festival" was born in 2019 from Seiji Kameda's desire to "create an opportunity for anyone to hear wonderful music performed live for 'free' in an open manner, and deliver a moving experience through music." It has continued every year through trial and error, and last year recorded 145,000 attendees over two days, with 203,000 viewers across live and archived streaming. As the Hibiya Park Open-Air Concert Hall (Hibiya Yaon) is undergoing renovation work this year, Tokyo International Forum Hall A has been added as a new venue, and the area will be expanded to include Yurakucho and Marunouchi.
The first batch of performing artists includes a lineup of 16 acts in total, including Rei and KREVA, who have livened up "Hibiya Music Festival" in the past, as well as first-time appearances by fumino, ORANGE RANGE (ACOUSTIC SET), SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS, Sonoko Inoue, Ohzora Kimishima, Rol3ert, and Sadao Watanabe Group 2026. Performing artists will continue to be added in the future.
A documentary capturing the actual performance, rehearsals, and behind-the-scenes of "Hibiya Music Festival 2025" is currently available on the event's official YouTube channel. Furthermore, an archive of a stream where Executive Committee Chairman Kameda talks about the highlights of "Hibiya Music Festival 2026" and his thoughts on holding the event is also available.
Operating costs for "Hibiya Music Festival 2026" are covered by support funds from crowdfunding and corporate sponsorships. This year's crowdfunding is scheduled to start in late March. Please check the official website for details on support.
"Hibiya Music Festival 2026" Performing Artists Comments
ANJI
Nice to meet you! I am ANJI.
I live in Shiga, and I make music while surrounded by the sounds of Lake Biwa and nature.
This will be my first time performing at the Hibiya Music Festival.
I am looking forward to encountering natural sounds within the big city, various kinds of music, and many people.
Please listen to my sound while leisurely feeling nature.
Sonoko Inoue
I am Sonoko Inoue.
I am looking forward to the holding of the Hibiya Music Festival very much myself, so I will do my best in my performance as well.
Jumpei Otsuka
When people hear Gagaku, many may feel it is music that has little connection to them. But originally, it was music born from the meeting and overlapping of cultures and music from various countries that came from the continent in the Nara period. In the open and warm atmosphere of this Hibiya Music Festival, I look forward to the rising of the generous sounds of ancient Japan, full of diversity.
HIROKI (ORANGE RANGE)
This is our first time at Hibiya Music Festival. We will participate with an acoustic setup. I'm excited to see how it turns out. Let's tear down various walls and enjoy naked music together!
Ohzora Kimishima
Nice to meet you, I am Ohzora Kimishima.
I am happy that this event is being held at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall, a place deeply meaningful to me personally.
I am happy to be able to meet you in a pleasant season. Praying for clear weather.
KREVA
I am very happy to participate again this year.
I want to savor the Hibiya Music Festival, which has entered a new chapter, together with everyone and enjoy it to the fullest.
Thank you!
Sayo Komada
I am very happy to be able to perform at the Hibiya Music Festival, a special place where music resonates across genres and generations. Shamisen and folk songs are "music that has existed since long ago," but by playing them through my own sensibilities living in the present, I want to deliver them as music of this very moment. On the day, I would be happy if you could feel the strength and delicacy of the shamisen, and the moment when sound connects people's hearts. I look forward to sharing sound with everyone under the sky of Hibiya.
Shacho (SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS)
"A free and borderless music festival that anyone—parents, children, and grandchildren—can enjoy." The moment I heard those words, I was strongly moved as a musician. When Mr. Kameda spoke to me directly, the sounds ringing out in Hibiya and the smiles of people naturally came to mind. Both Tabu Zombie and I host festivals ourselves. To realize this right in the middle of Tokyo, and for free. I understand that tremendous challenge, passion, and the weight of that resolve. We will perform with our whole body and soul.
Ai Takamatsu
I will be participating in the Hibiya Music Festival for the first time.
I am very happy to have been invited to a music festival I admired!
While making the tone of the violin resonate with love,
I hope to have a conversation between hearts, with no lies or truth, through sound.
I am already waiting impatiently for the day.
Satoshi Takebe
"Hibiya Music Festival 2026"
I will hold a workshop with Executive Committee Chairman Seiji Kameda again this year.
This workshop is not a so-called audition, but a precious opportunity to experience the joy of singing and the fun of playing music together with his bass and my piano.
Please come and participate.
And this year, besides the workshop, plans are underway for me to participate in several other programs.
Artists, musicians, staff, and the audience.
Let's enjoy the Hibiya Music Festival created by everyone again this year!!
We will enjoy it too!
Toaka
I am very happy to be allowed to participate in the Hibiya Music Festival, where anyone can enjoy music.
My heart is dancing with the premonition of a new musical experience.
In this event overflowing with diverse music regardless of genre, I intend to deliver vivid music myself!
I look forward to wonderful music and meeting everyone at the Hibiya Music Festival.
fumino
Hello, I am fumino.
I will be performing at the Hibiya Music Festival for the first time!
I feel very honored to be allowed to sing on the stage of this wonderful Hibiya Music Festival, where anyone can freely enjoy music across generations and genres.
May my music snuggle up softly to everyone's hearts.
I look forward to meeting you on the day!!
Rei
I am very happy to be able to appear at the Hibiya Music Festival again.
When I was in junior high school, for several years, I was active in singing to children in elderly facilities and hospitals through a local charitable organization. I sang enka and kayokyoku to grandpas and grandmas, and anime songs to children. At Christmas, we all sang "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with my guitar as accompaniment. It was separate from my career as an artist and something I did thinking "something for the community," but looking back now, it was my primal experience that taught me the power of music to connect people.
In this era where people facing various difficulties tend to be isolated, I think there is a future for music that only the Hibiya Music Festival can draw. I am very happy to be a part of that. Please come to this fun celebration of music.
Rol3ert
I am Rol3ert, and I will be allowed to appear at the Hibiya Music Festival this time. It will be a live performance with singing and playing, so for those seeing Rol3ert for the first time, you will see the 100% natural me and understand what kind of person I am, so please look forward to it.
Sadao Watanabe Group 2026
We want to deliver a stage that even those not usually familiar with jazz can enjoy together. Let's meet at the venue!
Executive Committee Chairman Seiji Kameda Comment
Just the other day, at a live venue called "Sphere" in Las Vegas which is lined with spherical LEDs, I watched a concert by the Eagles, whom the 6th-grader Kameda boy listened to obsessively 50 years ago. My heart trembled at the sight of music fans of three generations—parents, children, and grandchildren—filling the venue and singing "Hotel California" all together. With the singing voices echoing in the venue and the overflowing euphoria, my body felt like it was going to float in the air. Looking up, although "Sphere" is an indoor venue, the LEDs covering the round spherical ceiling projected a clear blue sky, and I felt as if I were at Hibiya Yaon. At that moment, I swore in my heart. To continue the Hibiya Music Festival to deliver the music of wonderful artists borderlessly and enrich the lives of listeners.
Now, it is the first artist announcement for Hibiya Music Festival 2026!
The best artists who connect everyone across time and space are gathering again this year. Let's draw a future map together where this year's moving experience leads to next year, and the baton of music is passed on eternally.
Hibiya Music Festival 2026
May 30, 2026 (Sat) Hibiya Park and surrounding facilities, Tokyo
May 31, 2026 (Sun) Hibiya Park and surrounding facilities, Tokyo
<Performers>
ANJI / Sonoko Inoue / Jumpei Otsuka / ORANGE RANGE (ACOUSTIC SET) / Ohzora Kimishima / KREVA / Sayo Komada / The Music Park Orchestra / SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS / Ai Takamatsu / Satoshi Takebe / Toaka / fumino / Rei / Rol3ert / Sadao Watanabe Group 2026 / and more
Hibiya Music Festival Special Band: Seiji Kameda (B) / Tomoyasu "Kaasuke" Kawamura (Dr) / Yoshiyuki Sahashi (G) / Yuta Saito (Key) / Udai Shika (Cello) / Akiko Tajima (Violin) / Kei Suzuki (Sax) / Koji Nishimura (Trumpet) / Tomohiro "ODY" Odawara (Cho)
Source: Music Natalie
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