PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) — Since 500 AD, the booming beats of taiko have been a Japanese tradition used by the military, for communication, entertainment and, more recently, social movements. Taiko means ...

Over a thousand people gathered for the Japanese American National Museum’s annual Oshogatsu Family Festival, celebrating the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts and the University at Buffalo's Asian Studies Program will present "Explosive Beats: Japanese Taiko Drumming" on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will be ...

When Shuichi Hidano performed before an excited crowd of 50,000 people who had just watched France grab the 1998 World Cup, he must have felt the zenith of his Taiko master drum prowess come to a ...

It's commonplace in Northeast Wisconsin for groups to record and upload public meetings. But Brown County is behind the curve. Brown County residents to see higher water bills as sewer rates rise by 6 ...

When Dave Stehouwer hears the thunder, he wonders if he has somehow caught lightning in a bottle. The Parkinson’s patient, with a mix of medicine and a boisterous Asian art known as Taiko drumming, ...

BEREA, Ohio -- The sound of thunderous beats echoed from inside the Berea Library Thursday (Aug. 17) as the Yume Daiko Japanese Drum Group shared the “rhythms of wow” with a large, appreciative crowd.

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 ...

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