Vietnam has a rich treasure of traditional musical instruments, of which bamboo instruments are the oldest. A bamboo musical instrument of the central highlanders called T'rung Bamboo, a familiar ...

MANILA (Reuters Life!) - Are they brass bands or wind ensembles? The traditional "musikong bumbong" marching bands of the Philippines are bound to confuse music buffs because their instruments are ...

The Karatong Festival Street Performers are among the concert’s featured artists in the virtual concert. Attention ethnic music enthusiasts. The rich diversity of the country’s bamboo musical ...

Billy Martin, best known as the drummer for Medeski Martin & Wood, has until midnight tonight to fund an ambitious new theatrical work.

It's a warm October night. Dong Quang Vinh, conductor at the Hanoi-based Vietnam National Academy of Music (VNAM), was surrounded by his ensemble, Suc Song Moi (New Life), and the Hanoi Voices Choir, ...

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Besides being the conductor and musical director of Musikawayan, Ret. Col. Gilbert Ramos (left) also trains members of the Biñan Kawayan Music Ensemble More than a century ago, a bamboo band in ...

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 ...

How many of Kerala’s many musical instruments are made out of bamboo? The flute, which is a part of the classical music tradition in India, is the most popular bamboo musical instrument in the country ...

For the past 26 years, musician Boujemaa Razgui, a Canadian citizen based in Boston, has traveled around the world and across the United States with his instruments, 11 neys and two kywalas, in tow.

A Canadian virtuoso flutist says that his priceless collection of flutes was destroyed by U.S. customs officials who mistook the instruments for worthless bamboo. "When my baggage didn't arrive, I ...

Vayali, a group of youngsters from Thrissur in Kerala, is engaged in preserving their roots. Connected together in 2004 for a common reason, to form a team to start learning the local knowledge ...