Fourteen more acts added to 'Hibiya Music Festival,' including Naotaro Moriyama, Lisa Ono, Seiko Niizuma, Yu Takahashi, and Kaoru Kurosawa of The Gospellers
The third round of performing artists has been announced for the "Hibiya Music Festival 2026," a free music event to be held on May 30 and 31 in and around Hibiya Park in Tokyo.
The "Hibiya Music Festival" is an event where people can enjoy a variety of music for free, transcending all boundaries of generation and genre. A total of 14 acts have been newly added, including ailly, Lisa Ono, Kikaseya. Keitaro, Ryota Kikuchi, Kaoru Kurosawa (The Gospellers), Yu Takahashi, DJ Dainoji Otani, Tomato Club, Seiko Niizuma, Hideaki Hirai, Naotaro Moriyama, RIO, LEO, and rena.
Additionally, a crowdfunding campaign to raise operating funds for "Hibiya Music Festival 2026" launched today, March 30. Supporters can choose from rewards such as advance reservation rights for tickets to the "Hibiya Dream Session" program, as well as original T-shirts, keychains, hand towels, and mugs.
Furthermore, Seiji Kameda, the executive committee chairman of "Hibiya Music Festival 2026," will hold the third installment of his "Solo Talk Livestream" on YouTube today at around 9:30 p.m. He will discuss the artists whose performances have been confirmed this time.
Hibiya Music Festival 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026 - Tokyo - Hibiya Park and surrounding facilities
Sunday, May 31, 2026 - Tokyo - Hibiya Park and surrounding facilities
<Performers>
ailly / ATARASHII GAKKO! / ANJI / Sonoko Inoue / Junpei Otsuka / Lisa Ono / ORANGE RANGE (ACOUSTIC SET) / GAIA & Friends Session / Kikaseya. Keitaro / Ryota Kikuchi / Taiku Kimishima / KREVA / Kaoru Kurosawa (The Gospellers) / Sayo Komada / ZAINICHI FUNK / The Music Park Orchestra / Suiren / Super Tozanbu / SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS / Yu Takahashi / Ai Takamatsu / Satoshi Takebe / DJ Dainoji Otani / Toaka / Dohatsuten Acoustic Session / Tomato Club / Seiko Niizuma / Yoshiko Hanzaki / Hideaki Hirai / Fumino / Naotaro Moriyama / YOYOKA / RIO / Rei / LEO / rena / 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)
Comments from "Hibiya Music Festival 2026" Performers
ailly
This is ailly, Angelina 1/3's solo project!
This is my first time participating in the Hibiya Music Festival!
Every year, when the season for the festival arrives, I see so many people connecting with nature and music at Hibiya, and it's always filled with warm, wonderful reactions. I'm so happy to be a part of that whirlwind this year!
This will be my first festival performance as ailly, so I will deliver my words and sounds with great care!
I look forward to it!
Lisa Ono
This is Lisa Ono, and I will be performing at the Hibiya Music Festival for the first time. At this wonderful festival where various genres of music come together, I hope to share the pleasant rhythms of Bossa Nova with people of all ages and have a wonderful time together. I look forward to seeing you all at the venue!
Kikaseya. Keitaro
I'm so happy to be able to read picture books at the Hibiya Music Festival again this year.
Through "Music x Picture Books,"
I hope you can fill your hearts
with feelings of "nostalgia!" and "I'm so glad you read to me!"
It's time for picture books to begin!
Ryota Kikuchi
My name is Ryota Kikuchi, a pianist, and I am honored to be performing at the Hibiya Music Festival.
I am very happy to have been invited!
I've performed at the Hibiya Music Festival before, and I absolutely love the atmosphere of this festival.
It's large-scale yet has a cozy, at-home feel. The sight of people coming and going, freely enjoying music, is truly a paradise of music... I'm already looking forward to performing in such a happy space!
Yu Takahashi
I met Mr. Kameda in September 2011. It was at a unique festival called "LIVE Fukushima Kaze to Rock SUPER Nomaoi" held at Soma Koyo Softball Stadium's Waiwai Hiroba in Fukushima, on a warm afternoon with a very pleasant Fukushima breeze. The following year, we were able to perform as a two-person unit. They say some people are good at "getting into others' hearts," but Mr. Kameda is good at "letting people in." Everyone who meets Mr. Kameda, myself included, is greeted with a smile, warmed by his big-heartedness. The Hibiya Music Festival, for which Mr. Kameda serves as the executive committee chairman, is just like him—free admission and welcoming of all genres and generations. What kind of breeze will blow, and what kind of smiles will bloom this year? I am very much looking forward to participating again.
DJ Dainoji Otani
This year again
at Hibiya
for the kids,
no
for people of all ages,
for all our friends around the world,
DJ Dainoji Kids Disco
is on!!
Under the blue sky
everyone, come gather at Hibiya!!
Tomato Club
Masashi Yamada
I'm so happy to be able to perform with Tomato Club at my beloved Hibiya Park.
We're Tomato Club, a new acoustic unit only in our third year of formation, so please be good to us!!
We'll be waiting for you at the venue!
Taku Muramatsu
Thank you for inviting Tomato Club! We intend to perform in our own way to create a day that will leave all of you with wonderful memories of Hibiya Park! Please come and hang out!
Seiko Niizuma
Hibiya Music Festival is a place where you can be surrounded by people you love and bathe in warm music.
This year, the music will echo not only through Hibiya Park but also at the Tokyo International Forum.
I'm very much looking forward to the 2026 version, where borderless smiles will spread throughout the entire Hibiya area!
Hideaki Hirai
In 2019, the first "Let's Enjoy Classical Music Together!" was a spectacular two-part performance at the Small Open-Air Concert Hall, featuring a "Choral Festival" family concert with a publicly recruited choir of about 130 people from three generations—parents, children, and grandchildren—and highlights from the opera "Princess Kaguya" (composed by Hideaki Hirai). Including the public rehearsal, it was a truly happy occasion where a total of 3,000 people shared the charm of classical music, from children's songs and school songs to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" and opera. This year again, we will deliver a special project under the theme "Let's Create Hibiya Music Festival Together," so please join us in making the festival a success!
Naotaro Moriyama
I will be participating in the Hibiya Music Festival.
Era and culture. Our music was born from that soil. To share it with the people living today, and to connect it to the next generation. And to do so in a more everyday, fun, and interesting way.
I fully support the wonderful initiative that Mr. Kameda and the staff have put forth.
RIO
I am truly honored to be able to participate in the Hibiya Music Festival again this year.
I hope to connect with many people through the familiar language of music!
Please come to the venue and experience the borderless music played on the ukulele.
Aloha!
LEO
I am very happy to be able to perform at the Hibiya Music Festival, which I have long admired. For this stage, I have invited trackmaker/sound artist Shun Moriyama and composer Noeru Hiyamizu to create new music with the koto and electronics at its core. Together with these two, who have backgrounds in electronic and contemporary music respectively, we are exploring unprecedented forms of sound while incorporating elements of classical and improvisation. I would be delighted to share the soundscape that can only be born in that moment with all of you in the open space of Hibiya.
rena
Hello everyone!
I'm rena, a ukulele player.
Thanks to you all, this will be my second time performing at the Hibiya Music Festival, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing you all again!
I will deliver a new style of ukulele that incorporates a wide range of genres, not just Hawaiian music but also rock and jazz.
Let's have fun together at the Hibiya Music Festival again this year!
Comment from Seiji Kameda (Executive Committee Chairman, "Hibiya Music Festival")
The cherry blossoms are blooming in Tokyo.
Every year around this time, I become so engrossed in preparing for the Hibiya Music Festival, which is two months away, that I often miss the most beautiful sight of the cherry blossoms in full bloom.
Deciding on artists and setlists, planning workshops, resonating with the passion and ideas of our sponsoring companies, brainstorming ideas for crowdfunding rewards... every day passes in a whirlwind. But on the other hand, it's also a very creative and exciting time. Perhaps I myself am the one most looking forward to holding the free and borderless "Hibiya Music Festival."
Suddenly, I noticed this year's cherry blossoms through my car's windshield, and they seem unusually beautiful, with many different colors within the sakura pink. To be able to convey this simple, everyday emotion through music, the Hibiya Music Festival will continue to take on various creative ideas and challenges this year!
First, we have the third round of artist announcements, a wonderful and borderless lineup that is very characteristic of the Hibiya Music Festival. And there's still "and more!" to come, so how far will we go!? Next, our crowdfunding campaign, an important engine for this festival we all create together, will finally begin. This year, the venue fee for the newly added Tokyo International Forum (Hall A), which is being used in place of the Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall (currently under renovation), will be incurred, so we have set the target amount at 40 million yen. I believe we can surely achieve it if everyone's thoughts come together. We have prepared new and attractive rewards, so we ask for your support!
Now, until the main event on Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31, we will continue to deliver more happy news and surprises. Let's create "Hibiya Music Festival 2026" together.
Source: Music Natalie
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