Get ready for an unforgettable evening showcasing the music of the shakuhachi, Japan’s traditional bamboo flute! Hōzan Nomura, the honored National Living Treasure of the shakuhachi, makes a rare ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M hosted the eighth World Shakuhachi Festival, celebrating the Japanese bamboo flute’s music and culture. People gathered in Bryan-College Station to perform, ...

Combining the haunting sounds of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) with the musical language of the West, this concert features classic Zen Buddhist music and works by Minoru Miki and James ...

Standing alone in the middle of the stage in a kimono, Japanese musician and composer Dozan Fujiwara opened his concert with his own composition “Ku”, which literally means “sky” or “empty” in ...

These tattooed badasses are not, in fact, extras from that bafflingly misguided "47 Ronin" movie. They’re the members of the newly-signed Wagakki Band, which combines the chunky guitar chords and ...

Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San Gabriel ...

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam will hold the JF Garage Concert No.19 in Hanoi on January 13 to introduce Japan’s traditional instruments Shakuhachi and Shamisen. The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Wu Man, "the world's finest player of the pipa" (The New York Times), is joined by ...

A concert featuring Japanese instruments will take place at Hanoi’s Japan Foundation Centre on January 13. A concert featuring Japanese instruments will take place at Hanoi’s Japan Foundation Centre ...

Anne Norman, a Shakuhachi performer, improvisor and composer, will play solo at Canberra Nara Candle Festival on 27th October to celebrate the 25 years of the sister city relationships shared between ...