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 ...

It was an offer they couldn't refuse. Savannah's best blues guitarists were offered a free cigar box guitar in exchange for donating their talents to a free concert that will be presented Aug. 6 at ...

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, ...

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PRIDE, LA (WVUE) - Many years ago, people who couldn't afford to buy a guitar would make their own out of a cigar box, and the distinct bluesy-folk sound of those homemade instruments is making a bit ...

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 ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

When Diane Sutliff started making cigar-box guitars in late 2008, she was driven by curiosity, some innate craftiness, and the desire to improve upon someone else’s work—the same things that seem to ...

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 ...