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 ...

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 ...

Even if the name isn’t familiar, you might know the sound of the shakuhachi. It’s a traditional Japanese flute with a distinct, airy sound quality. Shawn Head is a local shakuhachi performer who ...

Marco Lienhard moved from Switzerland to Japan just after he graduated high school — and it was there that he discovered the shakuhachi. “I was really taken by the sound it was creating, the ...

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 ...

GRAND Bahama will host world-reknowned traditional Japanese flutist Elizabeth Reian Bennett at the Garden of the Groves on Boxing Day. Reian Bennett is the first woman to play professionally as a ...

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 ...

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Standing alone in the middle of the stage in a kimono, Japanese musician and composer Dozan Fujiwara opened his concert with his own composition “Ku”, which literally means “sky” or “empty” in ...