Learning to play the three-stringed Japanese traditional instrument shamisen topped Canadian Maud Archambault's list of things to do while in Japan. She arrived here in 2001 to explore one of her ...

Every January, I attend globalFEST at a New York City nightclub and see some of the most fantastic music I'll experience all year. Now, given the pandemic's challenges and the hardening of ...

The Tiny Desk is teaming up with globalFEST this year for a thrilling virtual music festival: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST. The online fest includes four nights of concerts featuring 16 bands from all ...

Austin Japanese Minyo Dance Group, Miyagi Ryu Okinawa Dance, and Austin Taiko are hosting Austin's first Bon Odori & Tanabata Matsuri Festival. Guests will be able to learn traditional Japanese Minyo ...

A muffled bass line is soon matched by Katsumi Tanaka's staccato electric guitar riff loosely emulating a shamisen. Congas and timbales start grooving in the rhythm of cumbia before the horn section ...

The ongoing APEC summit in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, is boosting the local economy of the city's neighbor, Pohang, North ...

A music documentary about Minyo Crusaders, a Tokyo-based band that blend Latin and Afro flavours into unique arrangements with minyo: a traditional Japanese folk genre now at risk of extinction. For ...

Nancy Lorena Castro Gonzalez, a Mexican musician who sings “minyo,” or Korean traditional folk songs, said that she first fell in love with minyo in 2014 when she learned about Korean traditional ...

Band SsingSsing is not like other Korean bands. The six-member band, led by front man Lee Hee-moon, wearing glittery Bowie-like make-up and stylish costumes with stockings and heels, reminds audiences ...