LIHUE — Sponsored by the Hawaii Minyo-Buyo Association in cooperation with the Japan Minyo-Buyo Renmei, the USA-Japan Minyo Cultural Exchange Festival took place on Kauai over the weekend. Todd ...

Every January, I attend globalFEST at a New York City nightclub and see some of the most fantastic music I'll experience all year. Now, given the pandemic's challenges and the hardening of ...

Austin Japanese Minyo Dance Group, Miyagi Ryu Okinawa Dance, and Austin Taiko are hosting Austin's first Bon Odori & Tanabata Matsuri Festival. Guests will be able to learn traditional Japanese Minyo ...

KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer shares new tracks: “Kushimoto Bushi” by Minyo Crusaders, a band from Tokyo; “Yolcu” by Altin Gün, a rock band from Amsterdam; “I’m Every Sparkly Woman” by Ana Roxanne, an ...

How do you make folk music relevant in these postmodern times? Traditional music is under threat everywhere you look, as are minority languages, arts and crafts and the habitat and environment that ...

Lee Eun-ju, a master of Gyeonggi minyo ― Korean folk music from the Gyeonggi region ― passed away Monday at the age of 98. Lee died of old age. Lee was the last living of the three ...

The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (Wijin Park, Director) and Korean traditional music (Gugak) artist, Seo-Yoon Jang present a special online project, English Gugak Series 'Korean Traditional ...

Nancy Lorena Castro Gonzalez, a Mexican musician who sings “minyo,” or Korean traditional folk songs, said that she first fell in love with minyo in 2014 when she learned about Korean traditional ...