Coro Dabar Flying from Coria del Rio !

Coro Dabar, a choir based in Coria del Rio, Sevilla, Spain, will be participating the 10th Circle Wind Concert to be held on September 17, 2017 at Carnegie Hall, New York City. Coria del Rio is well known as a city where a Japanese diplomatic embassy headed by Tsunenaga Hasekura of Date Clan in Sendai first landed in 1614 before they officially met the king of Spain in Madrid and Pope in Rome. It is said that about 10 samurais left in this city refusing to come back to Japan. There are several hundreds of their descendants under the surname of Japon.

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