Tatsuya Nakatani serves up a feast of adventurous percussion at Winter Park’s Dining Room

The last time Tatsuya Nakatani played in Orlando it was in the roomy gallery confines of CityArts, a very appropriate setting for an august percussive maestro like Nakatani — who regularly plays in such spaces.

However, before that — going back pre-pandemic even — Nakatani held forth in a living room in Winter Park, the audience mere inches from the man and his arsenal of drums and gongs.

It was honestly thrilling in terms of proximity and jarring in terms of the everyday setting — people live here! Nakatani returns and it should be every bit as good, with the man using gongs, drums of all sizes, sundry noisemakers and bows to conjure up an ecstatic freeform noise.

Jonas Van den Bossche joins Nakatani for a duo set and the phrase house party will never be the same again.

7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, The Dining Room, instagram.com/atthediningroom, donations strongly encouraged.

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This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2025.