When Taiwan’s martial law was lifted in 1987, folk dance largely fell out of style. For the first time, Taiwanese were able to experiment with styles like hip-hop, jazz and street dancing.

Rickey Holden, a prominent choreographer and folk dance teacher, brought songs such as “Mayim Mayim” (from Israel), “Shibolet Basadeh” (Israel), and “Wooden Shoes” (Lithuania) to Taiwan.

When Taiwan’s martial law was lifted in 1987, folk dance largely fell out of style. For the first time, Taiwanese were able to experiment with styles like hip-hop, jazz and street dancing.

It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge that doubled as a ...

Music concert Shangu Zai Huhuan (Second Call of Valley) by the "Father of Folk Music in Taiwan" Hu Defu, better known as Ara Kimbo, will be held at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on ...

Aside from his original work, Lu is also known for collecting and rearranging a number of Taiwanese folk songs, including the famous Diu Diu Deng (丟丟銅仔) from Yilan. He also helped start the esteemed ...

Popular Taiwanese pop band Won Fu is currently touring with Seattle’s U.S.E., playing the Vera Project Halloween night. The band, named after one of the members’ dogs, is a playful mix of rock ...

Taiwan in Time: Sept. 7 to Sept. 13. Less than a year after he ignited Taiwan’s campus nativist folk song movement by proclaiming “sing our own songs” (唱自己的歌) on stage during a Western folk music ...

Billed as "all-ages folk and children's music from East Asia," Rabbit Days and Dumplings collects mostly traditional songs from China, Tibet, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. The album is the creation of ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The World Music Festival at Taiwan will return for its eighth year in October to showcase Taiwan artists creating modern sounds with folk instruments, traditional performers, ...

When Taiwan’s martial law was lifted in 1987, folk dance largely fell out of style. For the first time, Taiwanese were able to experiment with styles like hip-hop, jazz and street dancing.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The World Music Festival at Taiwan will return for its eighth year in October to showcase Taiwan artists creating modern sounds with folk instruments, traditional performers, ...