I recently gave an interview to Benjamin Pachter from Taikosource. In the interview, we talked about the development of taiko drumming in Germany and how to approach taiko as a research topic. You can listen to the interview here.
Japanese Awa Odori processions will come to Paris on May 24, 2015, bringing with them a multitude of Japanese dancers and drummers. The festival originates from Tokushima City’s Awa Odori (阿波おどり), which is the most famous of many dance festivals held across Japan during the Obon season in mid August. …
The homepage for the North American Taiko Conference (NATC) 2015 has been opened and is now ready for registrations. The event will take place from June 11 to June 14, 2015 on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. A preliminary schedule is already available; however, that schedule is not …
The official Facebook account of the UK Taiko Festival announced the dates of the 11th UK Taiko Festival in 2015 in a post in the UK Taiko Scene Group today: Hi UK Taiko Scene, We are extremely pleased to announce details about the 11th UK Taiko Festival; taking place from …
Hello everyone, all pages now forward to the www.wadaikotoshokan.com domain. Please change your bookmarks accordingly!
We’re happy to announce that we added a number of new groups to the Taiko World Map. The following groups have been added: Wadokyo (Düsseldorf, Germany) Ataru Taiko (Kőszeg, Hungary) Shinzui Daiko (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Taiko West (Shropshire, UK) Shintou Taiko (Brazlândia, Brazil) Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) Maui …
This is great news! The Taiko Community Alliance and TaikoSource will host a questions and answers session about how to learn Taiko in Japan on Saturday May 10 this week, at 16:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST). For those in Europe, that would be 01:00 Central European Time (CET) in the morning …
The temporary problems with our database have been resolved and the map should be displayed properly again now.
We are currently experiencing some problems with our map database, so the map might not show the database entries for now; the list view will still show the entries, though. We will be trying to fix the problem as soon as possible.
We have started launching our section about drum types! Our first featured article is a detailed description of the shimedaiko, the high-pitched center piece of many taiko ensembles. The description includes detailed annotated graphs with the English and Japanese terms in Kanji and Western transcription.