Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

The harmonica is one of the easiest instruments to learn, but mastering it to a level approaching players like Toots Thielemans and Sugar Blue and can take many years. You may have seen blues players ...

Andy Mackie of Port Townsend set out to beat the record for the world's largest harmonica band. Yesterday evening at the Seattle Center's Folklife Festival he -- and an estimated 1,705 others -- did ...

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WLOX) - If you’re driving on Highway 90, you might hear the sounds of the Coast Life from a musician who calls himself a world-class harmonica player. “I love to play harmonica, ...

Rigorous banjo plucking, powerful fiddling and melodic harmonica sounds filled the breezy air around Chevrolet Court today. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band brought a bluegrass, folk sound to Upstate New ...

What does greed sound like? If movies are to be believed, it probably feels like the lush fur of a mink coat. It might smell like a musky cologne and taste like that first sip of expensive champagne.

For Charlie Musselwhite, the blues has been a companion, a kindred spirit that has been his love and livelihood for the last 50 years. "I've always said that blues is your comforter when you're down ...

SEATTLE — Harmonious harmonicas — up to 1,706 of them — helped land Quilcene music man Andy Mackie in the Guinness Book of Records over the weekend. “It was so special. It almost brought me to tears, ...

In the '70s, Lee Oskar's harmonica sound was inescapable, vibrantly coloring the humid, Latin-tinged funk and soulful barrio ballads of California ensemble War's many hits and intriguing deep cuts.

Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...