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

California native Bruce Huebner fell in love with the shakuhachi flute as a young man, and in the subsequent decades he has become an accomplished composer, performer, and teacher of the traditional ...

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 ...

KINGSTON — Music from around the world is a mouse click away. For musician Jamie Orfanella, world music is in between his fingertips. Orfanella spent 10 years learning the art of the Japanese ...

In a rehearsal room in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, students are blowing into their instruments, flicking hands over finger holes, shaking heads, and dipping chins up and down to create ...

Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San Gabriel ...

New Music Mystics Concert Series. This is an official album release show for the album HOLY FLUTE which is Volume One of the Shakuhachi Unleashed series: these are virtuosic revelations for solo ...

Second in a series of concerts at Soapbox Gallery devoted to music of the Japanese bamboo flute. BREATHING PEACE II James Nyoraku Schlefer, Shakuhachi, Thursday, May 7, 7:00PM. Performance will be ...

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 ...

Michael Chikuzen Gould enchants kids and parents each year with his performance on the shakuhachi flute at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Malott Japanese Garden Children’s Festival. Gould will perform ...