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I don't want to work. I just want to bang on the drum all day. So said the pop music great -- in the one song from his under-appreciated repertoire to get heavy rotation in sports arenas. Perhaps, ...

Learn taiko from TaikoArts Midwest and meet Tiffany Tamaribuchi, an O-Daiko player. Taiko drumming is an art form that balances music, dance, and athletics into a dynamic demonstration of Japanese ...

Asano Taiko traces its roots back to an early Edo-period family craft business and has passed down taiko-making skills for more than four centuries. At the 2010 NAMM Show—one of the world's largest ...

THERE is a felicitous double meaning to Kodo, the name of the celebrated Japanese drumming ensemble. Its written characters mean “drum child”. But an infinitesimally different stressing of the second ...

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, it’s “Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival” time. At least that’s been the case in my living room lately as the sounds of taiko drumming echoed through my house over ...

Eva Nagase remembers well the beating of taiko drums reverberating through the air like “background music” during her childhood in Japan. “Every summer, my parents brought me back to Japan to spend ...

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