NEOSHO, Mo. — Some kids in Neosho learned how to play a new musical instrument — new to them anyway. 4th-graders at RISE Elementary were taught how to play the harmonica. Cassie Carnahan is the music ...

Loomis has been releasing albums and touring the world with his brand of Texas blues for more than a decade. A guitar protege of Bo Diddley, Loomis is also a highly regarded blues harmonica player and ...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to play a harmonica? You can during a two-day Beginning Blues Harmonica Workshop. Texas guitarist and harmonica player Hamilton Loomis will teach classes from 6 to 9 ...

The gift Miles Guzman got for his 13th birthday would outline the trajectory of the rest of his life. A simple $10 harmonica. Guzman, who grew up in Loveland, says he decided he wanted to be a blues ...

While some venues host book clubs or darts nights, a quirky Northern Quarter cafe has gone one step further... by starting its own harmonica class. New cafe Ziferblat hit the headlines last month with ...

My harmonica lesson is squeezed in between those for students far shorter and far younger than me, so waiting my turn is a weekly reminder not to aim for an octave I’m unlikely to reach. It’s not that ...

From a musical perspective, opposition to the status quo has been a driving force in Deborah Henson-Conant’s art and in her career. Though raised by musicians, she didn’t like taking lessons as a ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Delbert McClinton has released four CDs that have reached No. 1 on the blues albums chart, has been inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame and won a Grammy Award.

When my music makes someone happy, helps them unwind, relax and have fun, it is a greater achievement and fulfillment than any award I can receive. Born and raised on the prairies in the small farm ...

Blues harmonica master Carey Bell died on May 6 of heart failure in his hometown of Chicago. He was 70. Bell – the 1998 winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Male Artist Of The Year – was a ...