This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

A program of music by German composer Sylvius Weiss is planned by lutenist Nigel North for the final concert of GuitarSarasota's 2012 season. "His music is very much made for the lute, very idiomatic ...

"It really has its own personality that's separate and different from the guitar, or the mandolin, or the banjo, or the harp, but it has elements of all of those instruments in its sound," says Ronn ...

The Blackbird Rider Nylon is an odd guitar, a mix of the traditional and the high-tech. First, the "nylon" in the name refers to the strings -- the guitar itself is made from carbon fiber, from the ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- One of the great lutenists of our time made a stop in Northeast Ohio Saturday night, to perform a concert devoted to the music of John Dowland at Plymouth Church in Shaker ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Paul O'Dette made the leap from being a teen in a rock band playing Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to being today a renowned player of an Early Music instrument. O'Dette plays ...

Journeys in the East Neuk Festival can be as short as a few hundred yards between venues, but encompass vast eras in time. Saturday’s Shibe Trail in Anstruther was very localised, although the ...