Kodo, one of the world’s leading taiko drumming ensembles, brings its new show Evolution to the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday, March 4, 7 pm. Based on Sado Island in northern Japan, Kodo has been dazzling audiences worldwide for over three decades, both preserving and reinterpreting traditional Japanese performance. Evolution showcases the group’s perpetual creative growth and the mesmerizing precision and endurance of the ancient drumming tradition, taiko. With synchronized power and grace, they play everything from small hand-held instruments to the five- foot-wide ō-daiko … [Read more...]