Shamisen Tsugaru style is soulful

Professional and amateur; both were fantastic
Shakuhachi flute and great folk song

At a hotel in Aomori where my guests and I stayed, there was a great shamisen performance starting at 9:00 pm and lasting more than 30 minutes. Very soulful. The performer invited a few of the audience to come forward and try the drum while he played the musical instruments and sang traditional folk songs. Later toward the end of the show, a gentleman asked to let him sing along the shamisen tune. The whole venue was full of Tsugaru spirit. I didn't completely understand their Tsugaru or Tohoku dialect but even that was fun and impressed me.

Once blind female shamisen performers visited households and played tunes when asked. That was the way they made income. The music had to be loud since they sometimes performed on snowy days when the family would not be able to hear well if the shamisen only made ordinary levels of sound. 

The Tsugaru Shamisen, pronounced Tsugaru Jamisen in Japanese, is powerful and soulful. No doubt about that. 

The performer plays the Tsugaru Shamisen
The lady was invited to come forward to try out the drum