Graham Reid is an NZ journalist, author, broadcaster and arts educator. His website, Elsewhere, provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. When reviewing this ...

Despite the threat of a downpour, the seventh annual Route 66 Cars & Guitars Festival went on without missing a beat last Saturday. Kirkwood residents — and many from well beyond the city limits — ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The 21st annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival kicked off Friday night in Huntsville and is still going strong on Saturday. It’s a celebration of the unique instrument dating back ...

Jiggs Landing Outpost offers live music every night of the week through May, but Thursday nights are reserved for blues fans. Steve Arvey, a blues musician from Chicago, plays the blues on every type ...

This project marks the creator’s return to cigar box guitars, four years after their first video. This time, the goal was to build a fretted version from scratch using only materials and tools ...

Jim Lewin, the longtime owner of the York Emporium in downtown York City, died Tuesday. Lewin, 70, along with his wife, Pam, owned the emporium for almost 20 years until he sold the business and ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.