Then Martin glanced up at the TV in his room and saw something that changed his life. A local news channel was airing a segment on “Harmonicas for Health,” a program from the COPD Foundation to teach ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Harmonica ...

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 ...

There are myriad reasons why playing music is one of the most enjoyable and spiritually beneficial things to do on earth. Melody, rhythm and lyric are but three glorious aims. One drawback to playing ...

The first song played in space was performed on a musical instrument that weighed just half an ounce and could only make seven notes. In December 1965, while NASA's Gemini 6 was speeding through an ...

For a specific generation of Koreans, playing the harmonica is a reminder of their youth and their home -- whereas not playing the harmonica for decades reminds them of what they left behind to pursue ...

A musician needs full lungs to play the harmonica — that makes the pocket-size instrument just what the doctor ordered for respiratory therapy patients at Baton Rouge General Pulmonary Rehabilitation ...

“Classic Harmonica Blues,” out on May 21, features 20 tracks by the blues’ greatest harmonica players. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In the early 20th-century, southern black ...

The Kings are playing in Edmonton this weekend with a chance to sweep the Oilers and win their first playoff series since their Stanley Cup championship run in 2014. Hopefully the Kings didn’t forget ...