MENTOR, Ohio -- When Harold Lavellee was growing up in Rhode Island, his father took him on his knee and taught him how to play the harmonica. Now, ly eight decades later, the retired quality engineer ...

It can take years to master the harmonica. “I’ve heard it said that the harmonica is the simplest instrument to play but the hardest to master, and I’ve come to find out that’s true,” said musician ...

Even the young get the blues, and thanks to the Topeka Blues Society and the Mulvane Art Fair, about a dozen area youngsters learned Saturday how to express their emotional doldrums in a way more ...

Wanna go juke’in? You know, gettin’ down with some blues. Hearin’ the twang of guitars and the moan of a harp, and lettin’ yourself wander back and forth between the musical “then” and its current ...

Some professors travel during the summer; some undertake research or continue to teach. Music Professor John Shirley decided to spend his summer instead harping away at one of the most popular tourist ...