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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The curtain rises to reveal a simple scene — drummers and their massive Taiko drums are plainly ...

In what once was an abandoned schoolhouse on misty, mountainous Sado Island, young apprentices diligently train for a spot in Kodo, Japan’s most elite taiko ensemble. Stripped of cell phones and ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents the ultimate Japanese ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Japan’s drum ensemble Kodo on its One Earth Tour 2019, exploring the Japanese taiko drum through its energetic, and meticulously choreographed performance, Evolution, 7 p ...

Kodō, the internationally renowned taiko drum ensemble from Sado Island in Japan, are (belatedly) celebrating their 40 th anniversary by presenting a new dynamic work of seismic percussion at the 2023 ...

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 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 Sado Island is historically known as a place of exile for court nobles and intellectuals on the wrong side of politics. Today’s Sado Island is home to a population roughly the size of the city ...