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.

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 ...

BLUMENAU, Brazil — The door of the old timbered warehouse swings open to the squawking riff of a mouth organ being tuned and Alberto Bertolazzi, a hero among harmonica players, strides into 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 ...

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 ...

FARGO - Charlie Musselwhite grew up in the Mississippi Delta, where the land is so fertile it doesn’t just grow cotton, it grows music. “When you’re in the Delta, you can feel the blues coming up from ...

Local blues harmonica player — and Rhythm Room owner — Bob Corritore could not have picked a better title for his latest release. That Taboo is an all-instrumental album is rare enough these days in ...

On Saturday, four of Southern New England’s best blues harmonica players will be appearing on one stage. Ryan Hartt, Kosher Kid, Johnny Marino, and Junior Krauss will appear at Black-eyed Sally’s as ...