Brian Calhoun has made guitars for music legends. His latest clients are kids. At what age do most kids start learning how to play guitar? If you ask guitar maker Brian Calhoun, based on conversations ...

Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

Another day, another three-stringed guitar on Kickstarter. This instrument comes to us courtesy of Rafael Atijas and started out as a thesis project at NYU. It is a simple, 3-string guitar for kids ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. The Violin Family by Melissa Perley When she ...

There were no fuzzy animals at the Warm Springs Library. “It’s kind of funny," says Jaime McArdle of the Allegheny Mountain String Project. "Last year when we did this petting zoo, some of the kids ...

“There’s a reason it’s so beloved -- because it’s so cool.” David Young, principal bass for the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and founder of the L.A.-based String Family Players, is talking about ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...