This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

For the past few years, Anthony Walker has been elbows deep in sawdust, perfecting his latest consuming passion. In his workshop outside Columbia in Blythewood, the luthier — or guitar maker — who ...

EL SOBRANTE, Calif. (KGO) -- One man's trash is another man's treasure and this rings true for an East Bay man who is bringing life back into old items. Steve Zwetsch is pairing unlikely items ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual ...

The Samantha Fish Cigar Box Guitar Festival is going virtual this weekend, even as its namesake has gone back on the road. Samantha Fish, the popular New Orleans-based blues ‘n’ boogie guitarist and ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really anything ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

Dean Moller is a blues guitar player and cigar-box guitar maker. The former professional woodworker was injured on a job site, ending his career in carpentry. He turned to making wooden bowls ...