Before the era of electric instruments, the bass end of music was handled by big stringed instruments or large brass instruments like the tuba. We still have those stringed instruments ...
In a small courtyard dappled with light under a grape arbor 65-year-old Nurdun Esmayil was making handmade folk musical instruments with his family a ...
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The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...
With his solo project, Las Palabras, Cohen — who’s also a member of the popular Brooklyn band !!! — mulls his connection to ...
Trailblazing musician David Grisman played an influential role in shaping Traverse City mandolinist Don Julin’s latest studio ...
Today, indie singer/songwriter Kylie Van Slyke is sharing their new album, Crash Test Plane, their second full-length release ...
The first half of the German seventeenth century was a time and place of short men with well-tended facial hair. The prevailing style dictated long, ...
A sprawling story of dark familial secrets, freewheeling prog and Åkerfeldt death growls, solos inspired by Peter Green and ...