Bill Tarsha and the Rocket 88s led the 18th annual blues harmonica blowout last week at the Rhythm Room. More than 35 blues harmonica players performed. Tarsha and his band opened with a couple tunes.

“Classic Harmonica Blues,” out on May 21, features 20 tracks by the blues’ greatest harmonica players. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In the early 20th-century, southern black ...

Keeth Apgar is a veteran of the indie folk-pop scene. These days, with his group Harmonica Pocket, he’s at the forefront of the Pacific Northwest’s burgeoning kindie scene. Kindie is indie music for ...

Dreams can come true. Just ask Buzz Kilman. The mild-mannered morning sidekick and newscaster on Jonathon Brandmeier`s WLUP (FM 97.9) radio show is spending his evenings performing throughouChicago ...

Paul Green has that Clark Kent thing going. By day, he is a mild-mannered consultant, at night, a blues harmonica superhero. No need to leap tall buildings when he can channel Paul Butterfield and ...

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 ...

My, my, how time does fly. Seems like it was just July and now August is slipping away in a sweat-slicked haze of heat, humidity and rain — and music. The musical doldrums didn’t seem to sap the life ...