Most people's experiences with the autoharp begin and end with grade school sing-a-longs. But in the 1950s, a man named Mike Seeger proved that you can play real music on the small, 36-string ...

Off Square Music will present Bryan Bowers at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Congregational Unitarian Church, 221 Dean St., Woodstock. Bowers is widely regarded as the leading virtuoso on the ...

Bryan Bowers was attending a jug band party in Richmond, Virginia, when a physician who loved folk music brought out an autoharp. “He started playing ‘Shady Grove,’ an old English song. And the ...

When thinking about country music, many mainstream fans would be hard-pressed to list the Autoharp as a country-music staple -- deferring to guitars, cowboy hats and songs about tractors, instead. But ...

Want to hear some mean autoharp? Bryan Bowers is your man. Bowers, an acknowledged master of the instrument (which despite its name isn't a harp, but a zither), will perform on Wednesday at Savannah's ...

Everyone has dreams but not everyone achieves them. Ray Choi has. Choi is one of the world’s top autoharp players, and he demonstrated it at the 2017 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship, according ...

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