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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Longtime East Bay blues harmonica performer Mark Hummel and his Blues Survivors will headline this Sunday’s Blues, Brews & BBQ festival in Washington Park on Alameda’s West End. Hummel says it’s the ...

Carey Bell, 70, a Mississippi-born blues harmonica player and singer whose clipped and growling style won him wide admiration during a five-decade career, died Sunday at Kindred Hospital in Chicago, ...

Blues, Brew and BBQ takes place Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, at various locations in the village at Beaver Creek. Saturday, May 28 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Beaver Creek Plaza: Beer garden and barbecue ...

Every once in a while, the mail brings a CD that sparks a small revelation. A few months back, a two-disc anthology arrived called “Blues Harp Women,” and until that moment I didn’t realize that my ...

Cash awards totaling $2,500 and the opportunity to perform at the 25th Annual Battle of the Blues Harps in Long Beach, Southern California’s longest running blues harmonica event featuring top acts ...

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 ...

If you ask James Montgomery if he remembers playing the Shaboo inn in Willimantic back in the day — the legendary local club that closed in 1982 — he’ll hem and haw and scratch his head and say “The ...

Blues harmonica virtuoso and onetime Muddy Waters sideman James Cotton died on Thursday at a medical center in Austin of pneumonia. He was 81. A rep for the musician confirmed his death. Cotton, who ...

HUNTINGTON — At 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, the Huntington Harmonica Club hosts a special harmonica workshop at Route 60 Music where the club welcomes in New York native harmonica expert, Adam Gussow, ...