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 ...

Deborah Henson-Conant brings her rockin’ electric harp to The Center for Arts in Natick on Saturday, Jan. 26 for a solo blues show. Last year’s show at TCAN sold out. What’s an electric harp, you ask?

“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 ...

No one know when the harmonica first got the blues, but WC Handy reported hearing train imitations being played on the instrument in the 1870s, and by the 1920s, after Mamie Smith hit with Crazy Blues ...

In the Chicago blues harp club, Bill Lupkin has the chops, the tone, the attitude and the dues paid in full for Real Deal status. Fort Wayne, Indiana product Lupkin made his way to Chicago at the end ...