Riley Lee will never forget the first time he heard the shakuhachi — a Japanese bamboo flute — on a record his brother brought home to Hawaii in the late 1960s. "It was as if some sentient being was ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M hosted the 8th World Shakuhachi Festival, celebrating the Japanese bamboo flute’s music and culture. People gathered in Bryan-College Station to perform, ...

The Texas A&M University College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts will host the World Shakuhachi Festival next Thursday through Sunday. Martin Regan, a professor in the Music Performance ...

Kominato Akihisa is a ground-breaking virtuoso on the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute. For Kominato, the appeal of the shakuhachi lies in its resemblance to the human voice. It is this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It took some time to count the stamps on my passports, but it turns out I've averaged one trip to Japan per year for the past decade. While crack-of-dawn sushi at Daiwa's in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish ...

If you caught Sony's E3 2018 showcase, there's no doubt you were captivated by several of the amazing performances that preceded each of the game reveals. A banjo player opened The Last of Us Part ...