When a guy playing a traditional Japanese instrument performs with a bunch of pickin’-and-grinnin’ American bluegrass musicians Sunday at the Commodore Theatre in Portsmouth, it won’t sound as weird ...

Japan's love affair with the genre began with brothers Yasushi and Hisashi Ozaki, who formed the country's first bluegrass duo in 1957. Today,... Meet The Musicians Behind Japan's Vibrant Bluegrass ...

Mixing traditional Japanese music and American bluegrass sounds as appetizing as a plate of sushi and grits. Once you get a taste of it, though, you'll want seconds. Takeharu Kunimoto plays the ...

In director James Payne’s film “Far Western,” Charlie Nagatani sings American country music at the bar he started in 1976 in Kumamoto, Japan. Nagatani sings with a Southern accent, along with his band ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – Tonight the folks at Atlantic Ale House where treated to a little more than good food and a cold drink. The business was hosting a viewing of a documentary that was made when ...

Mipso, a North Carolina bluegrass band, travels halfway around the world in this charming documentary by Jon Kasbe. The band discovers a strong bluegrass scene within Japan, rife with virtuoso fiddle ...

Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Bluegrass is a sound as embedded in North America’s landscape ...

Seventy years after the U.S. occupation of Japan, a devoted group of Japanese musicians pursue their passion for American country and bluegrass music in honky-tonks from Tokyo to Nashville. Far ...

In the case of bluegrass, younger people encountered the music after World War II through radio stations on American military bases. Then, as now, some listeners are drawn to the fast tempos and ...

Akira Otsuka sat on the front row. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played for just over an hour on that March day in 1968 in Osaka, Japan. Otsuka lapped up every second. “Dream come true,” said Otsuka, ...

We are perhaps accustomed in Central Kentucky to viewing bluegrass as a native musical language. Audiences here faithfully supported it during a sweeping string band movement that dominated the local ...