PORT TOWNSEND — “A big part of American history plays out in our music,” Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival artistic director Jerron Paxton proclaimed at the start of this week. Performers, teachers 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 ...

Harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite believes the blues is more than just 12 bars and three chords, and his boundary-pushing 2004 disc, “Sanctuary,” splendidly proves the point. The most recent of the ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

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