Just got off my second visit to the Harmonica UK Virtual Open Mic. It’s a monthly Zoom meeting where harmonica enthusiasts meet and play harmonica…
Like pretty much everything this year, plans for the annual Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica (SPAH) conference were thrown into turmoil…
Hello, Long overdue an update here. Firstly, all is well, rest assured that behind the scenes things are still ticking over well. There have been…
I’ve put together a PDF (I suppose you could call it an ebook, if you wanted to be fancy) of “easy” folk songs for beginner…
Great article here – supported by copious recordings – by Seth Shumate. One In Every Pocket: The Rise of Harmonica on Old Time Music. The…
A Big Walter Horton lick I got mildly obsessed with a couple of weeks ago. It’s from the stone-cold-classic solo on Jimmy Rogers Walking By…
Here’s a good listen. The Musical Ramblings podcast on the diatonic harmonica and in particular the players who are using it in new and interesting…
Paul Butterfield was indisputably one of the titans of blues harmonica. His energetic, fluid and melodic style bridged the gap between classic Chicago Blues and…
First things first. I’m going to apologise for the lack of much coherent content here, and to anyone at the festival I may have gazed…
Very happy this year to be attending the NHL International Harmonica Festival. It runs this weekend (16th-18th August 2019) at Hartpury College Campus, Gloucester. I’ll…