Few instruments have a lower barrier for entry than the humble harmonica. Even if you've never played an instrument in your life, after a few hours of practice, I guarantee you'll manage to learn some ...

Nov. 17-18: Texas-based performer Hamilton Loomis says he can teach you beginner blues harmonica in two evenings. You don’t have to have any prior musical training — or even a musical instrument. The ...

On July 16, starting at 1:30 p.m., Blues Angel Music is holding a free beginner harmonica class led by local musician John Barksdale. Barksdale plays the harmonica, also known as the harp to pros like ...

Picking up a new instrument can feel like a daunting undertaking. Learning to play is often time-consuming (especially if you never took lessons), not to mention the fact that many musical instruments ...

Hamilton Loomis believes in a conversation that starts with notes rather than words. 'Music is a conversation,' Loomis said. 'You want to say sentences with your music.' Loomis will lead a six-hour ...

The gift Miles Guzman got for his 13th birthday would outline the trajectory of the rest of his life. A simple $10 harmonica. Guzman, who grew up in Loveland, says he decided he wanted to be a blues ...

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 ...

WATERLOO – If you’ve ever dreamed about jamming on blues harp — if you actually knew how to play harmonica — your big break may be here at last. Texas blues-soul-rock guitarist and harmonica player ...

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, ...