Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

SPRINGFIELD — If you want your kid to be the next Jimi Hendrix, you wouldn’t dare think of giving him several tabs of acid, 20 milligrams of amphetamines and a horde of groupies with loose morals. So ...

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really anything ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

Nobody knows you when you're down and out. And if you have a heart attack on the same day Michael Jackson dies, it's even worse. "June 25, 2009, I'll never forget it. I'm lying there like this," ...

The pages of newspapers, or history books for that matter, don’t runneth over with stories of happy accidents involving chainsaws. But that’s just what put Philadelphia musicians Lucy Tight and Wayne ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

Sure, you could throw out the box once you’ve finished puffing your last cigar, but if you’re truly crafty, you take that box and turn it into music. A group of cigar box guitarists made a pilgrimage ...

The Lowcountry music scene is a thriving one. With the abundance of talent in the area, our music stores have become popular hangouts for not only purchases and repairs, but for brain picking and ...

ROCHESTER — Ben Baker, founder and owner of C.B. Gitty Crafter Supply, may have the most attractive work space in the city. His company, and eight part-time and full-time workers are now housed in ...