LA MESALA MESA — Musicians, collectors, vendors and fans converged Saturday at Harry Griffen Park in La Mesa to celebrate a sometimes under-appreciated American art form, the blues harmonica. Hundreds ...

Every child has attempted to blow life into a harmonica. It is a working-class instrument; you can pop it in your pocket and play it anywhere. But many players remain notoriously shy and at this event ...

Every instrument has an image. The piano is largely synonymous with bourgeois respectability and the electric guitar with youthful rebellion. Perhaps more importantly, both of these devices has a ...

Tony Glover, a harmonica player who as a member of the group Koerner, Ray and Glover was at the center of the folk music revival of the 1960s and helped introduce a new audience to the blues, died on ...

BILLY LEE RILEY HAD BEEN AROUND. A guitarist who could also whip up a storm on harmonica, he’d had a couple of rockabilly hits on Sun in 1957 and led The Little Green Men, a band that for a while ...

November is the month for the mouth organ in Bengaluru. The fifth edition of the Bangalore Harmonica Festival organised by the Bangalore Harmonica Club will showcase 100 artistes this year. The fest ...

As a world champion harmonicist, Leo Ho Cheuk-yin, better known as CY Leo, has played his tiny wind instrument on countless stages. But his first gig at the Hong Kong Coliseum has always stood out in ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular culture or group of people. Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created by ordinary people within a ...