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 ...

The harmonica may not be the first instrument you think of when it comes to jazz and soul music. But acclaimed French-born harmonica player Frederic Yonnet has used the instrument to transcend musical ...

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One of the most versatile harmonica players in pop history is Stevie Wonder, shown here in Paris in 1963 at age 13. Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the ...

Pete DuPré, a U.S. Army veteran, is known as "Harmonica Pete." It is hard to upstage the superstars of the U.S. Women’s National Team but a 96-year-old World War II veteran armed only with a harmonica ...

He’s best known for adding his soulful harmonica to some of the greatest songs in country music like “Old Dogs, Children & Watermelon Wine,” “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and “I Was Country When ...

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SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

Holly and her mum were amazed by the performance and the fact Springsteen gave Holly his harmonica A young Bruce Springsteen fan from North Lanarkshire became the envy of millions when she got to play ...