Since debuting in 2016, Yoshimi Tsujimoto has been promoting shakuhachi to a global audience through her popular YouTube channel, performing flute covers of famous songs. Tsujimoto’s online fame has ...

Traditional music is facing a decline since imported foreign sounds, right through from rock to hip-hop, are becoming ever more popular, but one man is slowly trying to reverse the trend. Bui Cong ...

Flautist Marselus Selu has started a music collective on the island of Flores to foster traditional wind instruments made from native bamboo. The 64-year-old taught himself to build and play the ...

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 ...

A soil path, of over 10km in length, slippery and steep, stretches from the centre of Muong Dang Commune, Muong Ang District, northern province of Dien Bien, to Chan II Village – home to 64 families ...

The water town of Bacheng will play host to the first China bamboo flute festival on June 22. The bamboo flute is believed to have a cleansing effect on the soul in traditional Chinese musical theory.