The harmonica always has been an instrument of choice for blues musicians because it’s affordable and easy to carry. Mark Hummel, who considers himself a musicologist, is better-known as a bandleader ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Midnight Train Blues Band’s long-running blues jam is back. Originally billed as “Chicago Bob’s Gently Amplified Blues Jam,” the outdoor event welcomes musicians from around the ...

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 ...

Bill Tarsha and the Rocket 88s led the 18th annual blues harmonica blowout last week at the Rhythm Room. More than 35 blues harmonica players performed. Tarsha and his band opened with a couple tunes.

GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Friday at Porter Hills Village, Peter Paolini, 64, played the blues with his harmonica alongside a local blues guitarist. In the audience were his five older siblings, ...

It is a well-known fact that a harmonica player never goes anywhere without at least one harmonica secreted upon his or her person. While something like a tourniquet, a Tide pen or a needle and thread ...

Months after his aphasia diagnosis, Bruce Willis found good company in a harmonica and musician Derek Richard Thomas. On Monday, wife Emma Heming Willis shared an Instagram video of the “Die Hard” ...

PORT TOWNSEND — After a 16-month suspension, the Midnight Train Blues Band is coming straight out of the dark and into the Discovery Bay Brewing garden for a Sunday jam, bandleader Chicago Bob ...

Jim McLaughlin has friends. Lots of friends. The extraordinary harmonica man needs a liver transplant, and those friends of his are putting on a benefit concert Sunday evening at the Historic Everett ...