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 ...

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.

In the village of Sreemoddi under Cumilla's Homna upazila, the melodious craft of bamboo flute-making has quietly persisted for generations. Around 40 families are engaged in this time-honoured ...