WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) - Craig Hancock marches to the beat of his own drum. And why not? He built them. The Wartburg College professor and director of the Wind Ensemble spent several months this fall and ...

When Hancock took a sabbatical last semester, he was “champing at the bit to get started making taiko drums,” but was sidelined by shoulder surgery. While undergoing rehabilitation, he began learning ...

A Japanese traditional drum-maker Wednesday put the final nails into a taiko drum he donated to Maui Taiko last year. Hisakatsu Yokoyama, from a town in quake-tsunami ravaged Fukushima prefecture, ...

Tucked away in a forested neighborhood in Monument, Colo., Carla and Jesse Maddox shape red oak and white ash into drums, polished and stained, with cow hides treated and stretched over the drum heads ...

KAHULUI -When Hisakatsu Yokoyama wrote his name and date last week in the taiko drum body he donated to a Maui taiko group, it marked another link in the Maui-Japan connection forged through taiko ...

"When it gets that intense, you get into a zone which has never happened before. There is a raw energy that Taiko has," Raiki Machida '07 recently told The Herald. Machida and Joshua Goldner '05 first ...

Yamato, a group that has enthralled audiences around the world since its inception in 1993, delivers dynamic live performances that showcase the taiko drum, an integral part of Japanese culture and ...