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 ...

An American tourist found a viral dive bar in Tokyo while on a trip to Japan. No one looked at him when he walked in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

He hears bluegrass music live for the first time and it changes the course of his musical life. This is a typical story for many of the older generation of Japanese bluegrass players. Now, a new ...

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 ...

Saburo "Sab" Watanabe Inoue, Chien-Hua Lee, Hsueh-Cheng "Ryo" Liao, Akira Otsuka, Tsuyoshi "Josh" Otsuka and Toshio Watanabe make up Bluegrass 45, a pioneering Japanese bluegrass band that marks its ...

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 ...