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 ...

Japanese taiko drumming, a popular feature among the events presented by Kutztown University Presents! will return Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in Schaeffer Auditorium with Kodo, the premier taiko ...

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Most of its instruments—the barrel-shaped nagado-daiko, the snare drum–like shime-daiko, and the monstrous o-daiko, which stands two metres high and weighs 400 kilograms—are rooted in Japanese ...

Kodo – the world’s foremost professional taiko company, which has played a major role in popularizing modern taiko drumming – will present its newest program, DADAN, across the United States for the ...

Sado, Japan, is not an easy trip. After a 14-hour flight to Tokyo, you’ll have to hop a two-hour bullet train ride followed by a two-and-a-half-hour ferry trip to get there. But on this isolated ...

From August 18-20, the lush island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture will once again resound with the beat of taiko drums, song, dance, and (for the first time since 2019) the joyful voices of ...

This is a sponsored article on behalf of Serious Live Music. Pure power meets mind-blowing musical skill when drumming troupe Kodo takes to the stage — and it's doing exactly that in London this March ...

1 A DRAG QUEEN CHRISTMAS to Return for 12th Year With 39-City National Tour The Kodo Drummers of Japan are centered on the Japanese drum or "taiko." Since ancient times, the taiko has been a symbol of ...

The audience sits in complete darkness. A silver spotlight shines on a lone taiko drum. As a drum stick shakes imperceptibly, a hand firmly comes down onto a surface. A low thump reverberates through ...

Japan’s acclaimed Kodo Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble continues to thrill audiences in Japan and around the world with their energetic and creative traditional taiko drum performances. Now, All Nippon ...

Young people of a somewhat masochistic stamp are queuing up to enrol for a two-year taiko drumming apprenticeship on the Japanese island of Sado (Takashi Okamoto) These days, what you are more likely ...