The arrival of April means blues acts begin to travel a little more. The region will see an influx of acts. In addition state and regional festivals are set to rock the Summer weekends. 41 Bridge ...

Two of the nation’s top harmonica players will perform at this summer’s Coloma Blues Live! Headlining the June 9 show in the El Dorado County town of Lotus will be the Fabulous Thunderbirds, who are ...

Hear Brandon Bailey perform two songs live in the NPR studio. The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug bands of the 1920s. In the 1960s, blues-influenced artists ...

ASPEN ” John Popper has two theories about how the harmonica became his instrument of choice. The first: the harmonica was easy to play. This theory holds water. The way the harmonica’s reeds are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Brandon Santini was raised in North Carolina ...

High-profile artists make news when they jump genres on a lark -- when cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays bluegrass, for example, or baritone Thomas Quasthoff sings jazz. For Portland's , that occasional ...

PETOSKEY — A harmonica retreat that started Thursday continues today, Friday through Saturday with world-class and professional harmonica players giving seminars and performances in downtown Petoskey ...

To broach his uncertain future, Johnny Sansone first had to relinquish his familiar past. Photo by Timothy WhiteJohnny Sansone's new CD is an early contender for one of the best local albums of the ...

Most musical instruments are not primarily associated with one particular style of music, especially in these days of cross-cultural collaborative adventures. Sure, notable harmonica artists can be ...