'HERbeat' at the Ordway brings together top female drummers from around the world Naomi Guilbert, left, and Diana Wu play through a section during a rehearsal of "HERbeat: Taiko Women All-Stars" ...

She makes powerful noise. She makes thundering noise and hushed noise. She does it with a bang. Enrico, 46, plays taiko drums with Portland Taiko, a performance group whose members have banged on the ...

Eva Nagase remembers well the beating of taiko drums reverberating through the air like “background music” during her childhood in Japan. “Every summer, my parents brought me back to Japan to spend ...

Train horns blaring as they passed by were not the only loud sound booming around the Dixon Library on Wednesday morning. The Japanese Taiko Drum also echoed throughout the downtown area thanks to a ...

Experiencing an evening of taiko drumming might seem to be a prescription for decibel disaster. The large Japanese drums can be enormous, more than 4 feet in diameter, weighing as much as 1,000 pounds ...