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 ...

The drum is often considered the first human instrument. But in the hands of the performers of Kodo, drums are not primitive but powerful — emotionally expressive and even spiritual. The large ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is one of the best known and most influential taiko performing arts ensemble in the world and returns to the UK in 2018 with the European premiere performances of Evolution. Under the ...

One of the stranger moments in the Beatles’ story was a time the Fab Four seriously considered buying a Greek island on which to live and make music, far from the late-1960s madness of their native ...

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 ...