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Harmonica News Blog
Harmonica Blog is a daily selection of news stories concerning harmonica, blues,
and harp gear extracted from
major newspapers and blogs.
07/02/2009
Grab your harmonica
Honolulu Weekly - Honolulu,HI,USA
Israeli Circle Dance / Dancing in a circle may seem like a piece of cake, but we're not talking about Ring Around the Rosie. No, we're talking about the ...
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REVIEW: Blues Traveler jams in epic style
Gazette Online - Solon,IA,USA
Popper came out, harmonica blazing on “The One,” and didn't let up for two hours of Blues Travelers vintage and new, including material from the recent disc ...
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The Stone Foxes Return to Rock's Roots
The Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
Right from its snarling start, “Beneath Mt. Sinai,” the album packs in harmonica riffs, yelping harmonization, bluesy breakdowns, and garage-y rawness that ...
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Local upcoming events
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
HARMONICA CHAMPIONSHIP: The third annual West Virginia State Harmonica Championship will take place at 2 pm July 25 near Pullman Square in Huntington. ...
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Jason Ricci and New Blood
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
He's a gifted harmonica player who knows how to dazzle a crowd with his speed-defying licks and techniques on the harmonica, and his showmanship on stage. ...
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Your say on music lessons
TeleText - Scotland,UK
Rather like a harmonica with a keyboard and an excellent way to learn to read music in the late 60s. My piano lessons were private but I learned to sight ...
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Schroer leaves us gift of his journey
Guelph Mercury - Guelph,Ontario,Canada
Brooks' dusty, lived-in voice receives the perfect accompaniment in guitar and harmonica. Moth Nor Rust might not change anything in a macro-political sense ...
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07/01/2009
Annual W.Va. state harmonica championship set for July 25
Ironton Tribune - Ironton,OH,USA
The Third Annual WV State Harmonica Championship, sponsored by Picnic with the Pops, will be on July 25 at 2 pm It is part of The 5th Annual Hotdog Festival ...
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Stevie Wonder Ignites Montreal Jazz Festival With Classic Grooves ...
Rolling Stone - USA
A spirited version of Miles Davis' “All Blues,” with Wonder playing the melody on harmonica, was also a blindside pleasure. Predictably, the oldies, loaded ...
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Churlish community housing sics the dogs on cat colony's caregivers
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Sheila said, "Here comes Harmonica. I'm learning to play the harmonica. I call him that because of the noise he makes." Harmonica, the calico, is the alpha ...
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Benefit for OATS Therapeutic Riding Center to Feature the Fabulous ...
All About Jazz - Philadelphia,PA,USA
“We started as a straight blues band", vocalist and harmonica player Wilson says. “We now incorporate a mixture of a lot of different styles. ...
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National Country Music Day
Examiner.com - USA
Get out your harmonica and dust off that fiddle - July 4th is National Country Music Day! Whether you love the old country classics or prefer the newer, ...
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Stoney: Solo
Beachside Resident - Melbourne Beach,FL,USA
He blows his heavily-saturated Hohner harmonica over pre-recorded background music so you don't miss the full-band effect of his songs. ...
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JAZZ-ROCK: Jack Swift (7/2)
Rochester City Newspaper - Rochester,NY,USA
JC's lively harmonica playing recalls Blues Traveler in spots, but Jack Swift puts enough twists and turns in its overall sound to evade easy categorization ...
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06/30/2009
Sacramento hits the right note with harmonica convention
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
More than 400 people are expected to converge on Sacramento in August for a harmonica convention. The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the ...
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Delbert mcclinton Releases New Album 'Acquired Taste'
Top40-Charts.com - New York,NY,USA
mcclinton, who can be heard on vocals, guitar and harmonica, calls on his seasoned band, Dick50, to back him on the new record; Lynn Williams (drums), ...
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Music man performs from the heart (and mouth)
Pontiac Daily Leader - Pontiac,IL,USA
By Peg Reynolds/Daily Leader John Allison of Pontiac plays the harmonica at Heritage Days Saturday as a young boy listens. By Peg Reynolds Heritage Days ...
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Cowboy Surfer Reviews Still Time 'See America' CD
Top40-Charts.com - New York,NY,USA
Harmonica alpha male Tom "T Bone Steak" Molinelli grabs your attention anytime he whips the air through his blazing harmonica solos. ...
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Jason Ricci plays Boston's on the Beach
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
The spiked and sometimes orange hair and flamboyant clothes scream punk, but when Jason Ricci blows on his harmonica and opens his mouth to sing, ...
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Tarrant County College appoints vice chancellor as interim chancellor
Pegasus News - Dallas,TX,USA
At his going-away reception (Monday evening, June 29) de la Garza reportedly "sang a sentimental Spanish song and played a harmonica solo."
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Mechanic in tune with Canada
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
There's the smell of oil, and the racket of an air tool thudding home a bolt, but none of this is a distraction for the harmonica-playing mechanic. ...
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Blues a funny thing
Orillia Packet & Times - Orillia,Ontario,Canada
Now, Davis can be seen with his guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and more, all of which he can play skillfully, but not perfectly. ...
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06/29/2009
Harmonica Heavies to Hit Sacramento
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. , June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sacramento's Radisson Hotel will be rocking and rolling this summer as hundreds of harmonica players ...
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Nurse, 78, honored for years of service
Rome News Tribune - rome,ga,USA
... has been a nurse for 41 continuous years. "It's the young nurses that keep me going," Gore said. Gore has three children and regularly plays the harmonica.
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Blues Traveler spices up mellow Sunday night
OnMilwaukee.com - Milwaukee,USA
Originally, lead man John Popper's extraordinary size and incredible harmonica-playing abilities added a circus-attraction element to the band's mystique, ...
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Summerfest Day 4: Stevie Wonder & John Legend
OnMilwaukee.com - Milwaukee,USA
Plus, as anaspiring harmonica player, I wouldn't mind seeing the band just to envypopper's extraordinary mouth harping. --Molly Snyder Edler Stevie Wonder ...
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06/28/2009
Take Five With Tor E Bekken
All About Jazz - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Has released seven cds; the latest, Songs from a Forest, is a duet with harmonica player Richard Gjems. Eddie Bo, James Booker, George Winston, Don Pullen, ...
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Hard Rock-ing in the free world
The Sun - London,UK
... Old Man and Rocking In The Free World, the ever-experimental star switched between playing the organ, piano, harmonica and guitar. ...
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Come sing along
Lower Hudson Journal news - West Harrison,NY,USA
The band, James Weatherstone (electric and acoustic guitar, vocals) and Kurt Emmerich (acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals), combining their guitar work with ...
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06/27/2009
06/26/2009
Local fans remember Jackson
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
He's going to be missed." - Sugar Blue, a Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso playing at Blues in the Square who grew up in New York City.
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Night of blues: Summer music keeps downtown hopping
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
Thursday's show featured Sugar Blue, a Grammy-winning, harmonica-playing blues man. Larry McCray, one of the more popular Blues on the Square musical ...
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Improv and open mic hits Breck
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USA
Special talents: We can turn an eclectic guitar into a silver fiddle, play a harmonica with a balloon and sing three-part harmonies over wild, high-energy ...
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Lazybones releases "Songs From Here" feat. Huey Lewis, August 11, 2009
Patwhite.com - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
It features the harmonica chops of Huey Lewis, the vocal musings of Jill Barber and online you can even find Matt on stage with Sammy Hagar! ...
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Texas Trails: Born and Bred Texas Babe
Sulphur Springs Country World News - Sulphur Springs,TX,USA
That same year, she went on the “Ed Sullivan Show” and played the harmonica, which led to a brief recording career. Fellow golfer Betty Dodd accompanied her ...
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06/25/2009
Blue Jean Harmonica Was a Recent Hit on the Radio and Will Now be ...
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,Bulgaria
Blue Jean Harmonica (BJH), a talented group of young musicians, will be performing an acoustic show near their hometown of Athens, Texas in The Showroom at ...
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Huey Lewis calls himself a lucky guy
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy,MA,USA
Lewis said he really got bit by the music bug when he started playing the harmonica and perfected that skill while bumming around the world. ...
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The Ins & Outs: Countdown to the Festival on the Green
Addison County Independent - Middlebury,VT,USA
In "Sala'am," a bluesy harmonica is combined with an upbeat tempo and harmonies sung in hebrew. The harmonica, and guitar, however, are about the only ...
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The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond
Durango Telegraph - Durango,CO,USA
Up-and-coming blues vocalist and harmonica player John Némith performs at the Abbey Theatre at 8 pm tonight (Thursday). His vocal style has been compared to ...
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06/24/2009
Class shows residents how to master the harmonica
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
By Debbie Bosak, Post-Tribune correspondent New sessions of EZ Blues Harmonica begin July 13. For more information, contact the Munster Parks and Recreation ...
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Blues Fest 2009: Saturday, July 4, Bandshell Stage
River Cities Reader - Davenport,IA,USA
He has played bass with Earl Hooker, Sam Salomone, New Complexion, Harmonica Slim, and the Peña Brothers. I asked Jimmie Lee who his influences were, ...
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Without Pearls will perform at The Old Courthouse June 26
Cherokee Sentinel - Murphy,NC,USA
Lew Allen is the most versatile member of the band, playing mandolin, guitar, & harmonica, sometimes all at once. Until recently, he also did backup vocals ...
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Quirky Kwak!
Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Lead singer and harmonica player Damien Tartamella, Julien Joubert (guitars, vocal) and Xavier Hamon on percussion make up the band, formed eight years ago ...
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Rum Drum Ramblers
Riverfront Times - St-Louis,MO,USA
Harmonica, upright bass, one drum and a loose-strung guitar are all this trio needs to throw down a toe-tapping set. DIY improvisation and authenticity are ...
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06/23/2009
Performer's blues nothing if not authentic
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Months later, his father, harmonica player Raful Neal, died of cancer. The next year, his sister Jackie Neal, a vocalist known for “Right Thang, ...
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Presidential satire into a deep freeze
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
... to huddle along railroad tracks, building fires in garbage cans, dreaming of a single potato to eat, while a small child plays the harmonica in the cold ...
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06/22/2009
Blues harmonica legend at The Hope
Market Rasen Today - Market Rasen,England,UK
THIS Sunday (28) sees a return visit to the Hope Tavern at Holton le Moor of blues harp player and singer, John O'Leary, long considered by his peers to be ...
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06/21/2009
Coldplay get 'intimate' with Vancouver
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
... only to emerge moments later in the midst of the furthest reaches of the audience for a harmonica-laced, strummed rendition of Green Eyes.
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06/20/2009
Dad's lessons
Chicago Tribune - United States
Dad often dreamed of learning to play the harmonica. He made time for needy people but not for music lessons. Since his death, I can almost hear Dad playing ...
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Music as Bill Clinton's metaphor
Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
With tomorrow being Father's Day, I think of this: My late daddy, from a poor tenant dirt farming family in Southwest Arkansas, played harmonica by ear and ...
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Seng Han Thong to resume work after recovering from attack
Channel News Asia - Singapore
You may call it music therapy - playing the harmonica is what Mr Seng has been doing to speed up his recovery. Although his condition is stable now, ...
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