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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 ...

Downbeat magazine once called Bryan Bowers, Ron Wall and Dan Wiethop the Father, Son and Holy Ghost of the autoharp. Bowers, who lives in the Seattle, Wash., area, has played in and around Cape ...

Gospel tunes, fiddle music, instrumentals and stories are all likely to pop up when Bryan Bowers performs his concerts. “It’s a mishmash of all the things I’ve experienced in my life,” he said.

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 ...

GARDEN GROVE – You probably never heard of Ray Choi. He runs a little music shop in Garden Grove, where he sells an odd instrument with 37 strings. It looks like a zither, which is to say it resembles ...

Roz Brown is the ultimate oldies act. “Let’s go back to 1905 for this one,” says Brown, his blue eyes gleaming from beneath a dusky hat. Sitting on a bar stool in an assisted-living center in south ...

Most buskers provide a soundtrack to the rush-hour commute playing a saxophone or guitar, but busker Darryl Minsky does it with an unusual instrument called an autoharp. The former computer consultant ...

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 ...

Walt Michael, Common Ground on the Hill founder and hammered dulcimer player, will present two concerts this weekend. Michael will be joined by Bryan Bowers, Autoharp master, for a concert at 7:30 p.m ...

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