The harmonica always has been an instrument of choice for blues musicians because it’s affordable and easy to carry. Mark Hummel, who considers himself a musicologist, is better-known as a bandleader ...

When 24-year-old Brendan Hart was a teenager, he spent a lot of time at a skatepark his hometown of Meredith. It was (and is) a special place for him, because it’s the Glenn Hart Memorial Skatepark, ...

Jack Romano and his neighbor, Joe, serenaded their Los Angeles street with a social-distancing jam session to keep spirits up on March 24. This video, filmed by Lucy Waterhouse and published to Romano ...

Mike Stephen welcomes legendary Chicago harmonica player Corky Siegel to the studio to talk about his fusion of classical and blues music via his Chamber Blues project. Tune in for the conversation ...

The relationship between portrait photographer and subject can be a pretty intimate one: this is especially true with famous musicians. It's the photographer's job to capture a sort of truth with ...

Wanna go juke’in? You know, gettin’ down with some blues. Hearin’ the twang of guitars and the moan of a harp, and lettin’ yourself wander back and forth between the musical “then” and its current ...

In the midst of a swinging music session at the Shaurya Centre in Palwal (Haryana) on the Delhi-Agra highway, a pair of eyes kept looking at me, smiling all the time. No words. Then an arm reached out ...

Some professors travel during the summer; some undertake research or continue to teach. Music Professor John Shirley decided to spend his summer instead harping away at one of the most popular tourist ...