Traveling the 50 states with a piano in a van,
connecting with Americans across divides through classical music.
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All concerts are free to the public and held in community gathering spaces.
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Bullock Correctional, Alabama
The federal government sued the State of Alabama in 2020 for how inhumanely they treat their prisoners.
In a place that treats these men as anything but human, for that hour we shared, we were all human together.
Slana, Alaska
A K-12 school with 18 total students, in a town of 150, sitting on the border of a national park six times the size of Yellowstone.
If the premise of the project was to put classical music to a “field test,” there was no better place than Slana.
Abbeville, Louisiana
That was the role of my music throughout tour - to ignite the initial pathway of connection and intimacy among strangers (really, folks who had so little in common with me on the surface) - which would then lead to meaningful conversation.
It was never “just about the music.”
The idea of Gather Hear Tour came to pianist Miki, an immigrant from Japan, in 2016 in the days following the election of Donald Trump.
Realizing how little she knew about the country she lived in, and desperate to find hope amidst the national climate of hate and anger, she decided to travel far and wide with a piano in a van, getting to know people & places she never would’ve gotten to know otherwise, and sharing her journey with the public.
Gather Hear Alaska was launched in September 2017, and has since been followed by chapters in West Virginia, Massachusetts, Utah, Louisiana, and Alabama:
Alaska (2017)
West Virginia (2018)
Massachusetts (2021)
Utah (2021)
Louisiana (2022)
Alabama (2023)
