Anyone who saw the funny little square-shaped guitars at Mikel Doktor’s booth stand at the Music is Art festival might have thought Doktor had created some unique, alien-type of instrument. However, ...

North Carolina Musician Justin Johnson has always been drawn to stringed instruments. Starting with the beat up, one-string Stella guitar his mother handed down to him, Justin has played music with ...

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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 ...

There isn’t much about the small house on an average street in a typical Royal Oak neighborhood that would make people think anything out of the ordinary is happening inside. But the cigar box guitars ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next month, Samantha Fish and the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival present four days of music at two Crescent City Clubs (the fest runs Jan. 15 -18 at The Howlin’ Wolf and Chickie Wah Wah). For ...

SPRINGFIELD — If you want your kid to be the next Jimi Hendrix, you wouldn’t dare think of giving him several tabs of acid, 20 milligrams of amphetamines and a horde of groupies with loose morals. So ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL. - What is a cigar box guitar? Technically, it’s a discarded cigar box with a hole for a 1-inch-by-2-inch fretboard. A hodgepodge of random items. Perhaps with a leather cord attached ...