Students easily recall the fairly fast impact of Taiko classes, Cindy Stephenson, who acknowledged that she frst came to ...

After a brief countdown, the room reverberates with sound and rhythm. Energizing shouts erupt and the vibrations of the drums ...

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Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru Strait near the southern tip of Hokkaido. In Part 3 of my travelogue, I’ll ...

We visit Sado, Niigata Prefecture, to meet a renowned taiko drum performance group that plays concerts worldwide. The 67 performers and staff members live together at a training facility ...

three-tonne parade floats housing a huge taiko drum. In a spectacular display of strength, the bearers raise the float up above their heads. They then keep their arms straight as they turn the ...

Holger Rune and Stefanos Tsitsipas tried their hand at traditional Japanese 'Taiko' drums during an event ahead of the 2024 Japan Open. The pair enjoyed performing a synchronized tune for the ...

“My wife’s cousin was a hula dancer and after graduating she went to Stanford and came back the first break and she goes, ‘I play taiko drums’,” Anthony Jones explains. “I’m ...

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Hong Kong taiko group merges local culture and Japanese drums Now 30 years old ... he received a full scholarship in 2020 to study for a master’s degree in jazz performance at New York University.