Glass harmonica player Dean Shostak will be among the performers at the Richmond Folk Festival's Genworth Foundation Family Area, festival organizers were to announce today. Shostak, a Colonial ...

When you think of harmonica players in the last 50 years, a few come to mind, but none quite like Bob Dylan. The man pretty much codified a style for harmonica playing that all singer/songwriters have ...

Lil’ Rev, aka Michael Revenson, has been dubbed a master ukulele player — and indeed he is, based on his being named a national blues harmonica champion and his having had published numerous ukulele ...

The harmonica surely isn't the most gangster instrument around, but it does have a storied sordid history. Whether it's the blues, Vietnam-era political folk music, or that scene from your favorite ...

When the blues moved from the delta to Saint Louis, Memphis and Chicago – from acoustic to electric – the harmonica made the move as well. And keeping to its low-budget practical roots, the means of ...

It’s been nearly 50 years since Chicago singer and harmonica player Billy Branch heard blues music for the first time as a 17-year-old student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Branch said it ...

The Ozark Folk Center will be hosting a FREE Harmonica Workshop with International harmonica player, Don Spain. The workshop will start at 2:00 p.m., on Saturday, July 25, 2009. Don will be teaching ...

Dr. Erwin Wunderlich wants to bring back the golden age of the harmonica. The author, history buff and harmonica enthusiast will hold a Civil War harmonica workshop at Manatee Village Historical Park ...

Strict, conservative definitions of Western classical music would not be sufficient to encapsulate the repertoire in harmonica player Cy Leo’s concert with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Each of the ...

Vocalist and harmonica player Sonny Terry, whose 45-year partnership with guitarist Brownie McGhee brought the blues to thousands of new listeners, died Tuesday in Mineola. N.Y., at age 74. Born ...