Everyone has dreams but not everyone achieves them. Ray Choi has. Choi is one of the world’s top autoharp players, and he demonstrated it at the 2017 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship, according ...

Most people's experiences with the autoharp begin and end with grade school sing-a-longs. But in the 1950s, a man named Mike Seeger proved that you can play real music on the small, 36-string ...

It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ Harvey What is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or ...

For many, the autoharp is remembered as the slightly geeky, easy-to-play instrument from grade-school music class, or as the accompaniment for folk and country singers in the late 1950s and '60s. It's ...

WRFA-LP 107.9 FM’s “Rolling Hills Radio” will feature a performance by Bryan Bowers, a 1993 inductee of the Autoharp Hall of Fame, on Thursday, May 25, at the Robert H. Jackson’s Carl Cappa Theater.

Elan Tamara makes genre-free, heartfelt music that sounds like it comes from another planet. Bright, bold, and colorful, the U.K.-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist condenses her ...

It was a musician’s worst fear. Instead of making last minute preparations for their performances at the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering last month, Bob Grappel and Lynda Cohen found themselves in ...

He had been an officer in the United States Army, a veterinarian who operated a zoo for jungle animals, and a professional luthier who hand-crafted his own instruments. But by his own admission, ...

As Dr. James Smith approached his 65th birthday May 28, he contemplated how to celebrate the milestone. With the nickname, "Autoharp Man from Al-a-Bam," you might guess that celebration would have ...

Back in the summer of 2014, Basia Bulat played her largest ever headline show in her hometown of Toronto, Canada, and the following morning packed her bags and drove 600 miles to Kentucky, to record ...