One type of fan (for ease of reference, we’ll call them KODWEEBS) approaches the group’s work dispassionately. They are Japanophiles, quite likely academics, who appreciate the Taiko drums not for ...

The Japanese drumming ensemble Kodo will be performing at Music Hall in Fair Park Sunday Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Kodo returns to Dallas as part of the One Earth 2015 Tour: Mystery. This is the second ...

Prepare to resonate. When the 14 sinewy men and women of Kodo, the renowned Japanese drumming troupe, appear at Hill Auditorium on Friday, pounding away on drums as large as the 800-pound o-daiko, ...

Keeping the beat of its ancient culture alive is what the KODO drummers have been providing audiences around the world for nearly four decades. The innovative outfit, which brings its “One Earth Tour” ...

Review, Zoe C, pics, Simon White - site users. Japanese musicians Kodo are a worldwide phenomenon. With room-shaking drums, subtle strings and delicate flutes, reviewer Zoe couldn't fail to be ...

In the Japanese language, the word " Kodo" has two meanings. It can mean "heartbeat" — the fundamental source of all rhythm. However, the characters used for the group's name have a different meaning, ...

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 ...

In the past week-plus, the Lensic Performing Arts Center hosted two evenings that might conveniently fall under the rubric of world music: On March 23, Kodo, a drumming ensemble from Japan; and on ...

From August 18-20, the lush island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture will once again resound with the beat of taiko drums, song, dance, and (for the first time since 2019) the joyful voices of ...

Since the appearance of the troupe in 1981 at a festival in Berlin, Kodo has been spending about a third of the year overseas In the presence of Japanese Ambassador Takehiro Kagawa, nine drummers in ...