On Thursday, March 9, the world-famous Japanese drum troupe Kodo brought a stunning performance to Jorgensen Center. As a celebration of its 42-year anniversary, Kodo put on a North American premiere ...

"Katachi: The Shape of Sounds in Silence," a performance of Japanese taiko drums and flute, will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Class of 1970 Theater at Whitman College. Kaoru ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taiko drumming, described by local performers and community members as more than a traditional Japanese art form—it is also a ...

Train horns blaring as they passed by were not the only loud sound booming around the Dixon Library on Wednesday morning. The Japanese Taiko Drum also echoed throughout the downtown area thanks to a ...

Second year Ph.D. student Yuka Tatsumi, co-president, co-logistics coordinator and webmaster for Stanford Taiko (ST), still remembers her first time watching a taiko performance in middle school. The ...

On stage, a flute lightly sounds, followed by a piercing beat of a chu-daiko drum. Another beat sounds out, and another, in a quickening progression. The sound of Kyodo Taiko, the first collegiate ...

What do you get when you mix swing dancing and taiko drumming? Just ask San Jose Taiko. Video of the group’s swing taiko performance has gone viral on social media, garnering nearly a million views on ...

San Jose Taiko has become such a staple in the community’s cultural fabric that as the group celebrates its 50th anniversary, it’s easy to take for granted the amazing performance ensemble we have ...

Taiko is a style of ensemble drumming which began in the 1950s in post-war Japan. Since then, it has developed into an exponentially popular genre of performing arts, and literally thousands of groups ...

In 2017, drum and Japanese music enthusiasts were excited to learn that electronic instrument maker Roland had teamed up with internationally renowned taiko performance art group Kodo on an electronic ...

Ten years ago American neurologist Dr Barry Bittman began researching drumming activity and its effect on increasing immune response. After favourable results with cancer patients, Dr Bittman and ...