According to Professor Harp there has been a couple of "non-revolting developments" in his professional music career. The Boston-based blues harmonica player, who comes to Theodores’ on Worthington ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to play a harmonica? You can during a two-day Beginning Blues Harmonica Workshop. Texas guitarist and harmonica player Hamilton Loomis will teach classes from 6 to 9 ...

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 ...

Loomis has been releasing albums and touring the world with his brand of Texas blues for more than a decade. A guitar protege of Bo Diddley, Loomis is also a highly regarded blues harmonica player and ...

One of the major transitions in the blues took place after thousands of Mississippians moved to Chicago, and drew upon the acoustic sounds of the Delta to create electrified Chicago blues. One of the ...

The Wiregrass Blues Fest partnered with Blue Moon Café’s Gumbo Cook-off last year, cross-promoting and encouraging people to attend both ‒ the cook-off held along South Foster Street in front of the ...

Felice Heffenger gently tapped her foot on the floor, keeping a slow, steady rhythm. “Ok, we’re going to draw for two beats and blow for two beats,” she said. She and her trio of students put their ...