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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, Rick Estrin took serious inspiration from the wealth of blues-oriented sounds around him. But it wasn’t until he made it to Chicago at 19 that he absorbed ...