From the time the Yoshida brothers were young, they had to live out their father's frustrated musical ambitions. He forced them to kneel, for five or six hours at a stretch, and play an ancient, ...

Experience live Japanese Shamisen music featuring Kiki from Tsugaru Shamisen Girls. Explore the art of playing the shamisen ...

art documentary and part concert this video features Michihiro Sato the preeminent player of the Tsugaru shamisen a threestringed instrument vital to Japanese folk music performing and discussing his ...

Internationally acclaimed instrumentalists Hiromitsu Agatsuma (on tsugaru-shamisen) and Akiko Yano (on piano) perform together for one night only on September 27 in the first show of Japan Society's ...

It will have been impossible to ignore the terrible events unfolding in Japan since the earthquake and tsunami struck last Friday. Three weeks ago though, when Japanese musicians Etsuro Ono and ...

As serendipitous first encounters go, the story of how the Japanese Blues Cowboy met the Tsugaru Shamisen Player isn’t nearly as thrilling as the music the two make together as George and Noriko. If ...

How's this for Japanese fusion? The ancient shamisen instrument, in the hands of Masahiro Nitta, duelling with its Irish counterparts, writes Arminta Wallace Think of Japanese culture, and you think ...