Taiko is the most popular Asian instrument in America. There are more than a hundred taiko groups across the country, classes for kids and adult beginners, festivals, newsletters, even online stores.

A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

A group of young performers entertain audiences with a waist-drum dance show at US Disneyland in February. [Photo/China Daily] The growing interest in China globally has led to a boom in culture ...

Beyond performances, the China National Traditional Orchestra also launched a public welfare livestream program called "Music ...

In describing his diddley bows, doshpuluurs, and canjos, craftsman Scott Weir said no two instruments ever make the same sound. They’re all a little quirky, just like him. Weir began creating these ...

In her hands, the pipa seems to come alive as each touch of performer Zhao Cong makes magic come from the traditional musical instrument. On the stage along the West Lake in Hangzhou, East China's ...

While reporting on traditional work the last couple of weeks, we learned about a North Country craftsman who builds stringed instruments and... May 16, 2012 — While reporting on traditional work the ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...