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 ...

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 ...

After a 30-plus-year career, Minyo will hang up his headset and look forward to retirement. His legacy will continue, not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Tiny Desk is teaming up with globalFEST this year for a thrilling virtual music festival: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST. The online fest includes four nights of concerts featuring 16 bands from all ...

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 ...

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 ...

A music documentary about Minyo Crusaders, a Tokyo-based band that blend Latin and Afro flavours into unique arrangements with minyo: a traditional Japanese folk genre now at risk of extinction. For ...