In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite believes the blues is more than just 12 bars and three chords, and his boundary-pushing 2004 disc, “Sanctuary,” splendidly proves the point. The most recent of the ...

3 Harris Center for the Arts to Present Tribute to Patsy, Loretta, and Dolly and Preservation Hall Jazz Band in March 4 Review: SAFE AT HOME: THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY at Valkyrie Theatre Company It ...

“Write this down: Blow 3, blow 4, draw 3, blow 3,” Phil Kaplan said to his new class of Newton harmonica students. Kaplan told the class he pulled the riff from “Mannish Boy,” the popular 1955 Muddy ...

Lynn Massa may forget a lot of things, but he never forgets how to play the harmonica. “I have to check to make sure my head’s still screwed on sometimes,” he joked, “but I can always play a tune.” ...

Stevenson started playing the harmonica 24 years ago. He moved to Berlin in 2007 to help care for his ailing father Rudy Stevenson. Rudy Stevenson was a celebrated jazz musician who spent the last 22 ...