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 ...

Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments have been around for close to 160 years. Micah Parsons takes aim at Cowboys ...

Kansas University professor of scenography Mark Reaney will be a new feature to this year's Art in the Park on Sunday at South Park. Although he doesn't smoke cigars, Reaney has taken it upon himself ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SACO — Max Jones creates cigar box guitars, and has a personal connection to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NOT CONTENT to stick with one formula, Max Jones of Saco also uses license ...

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really anything ...

As a long-suffering ukulele advocate, I can appreciate the challenge of preaching about wacky instruments to the masses. “At first glance you might not take it seriously,” Gibbons told the Times, ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

The Florida Cigar Box Guitar Festival is the only one of its kind on the Treasure Coast. Gary Roberts, a musician and history buff who owns Summer Crush Vineyard & Winery north of Fort Pierce, saw the ...

(WBIR-Knoxville) You could say building instruments is in Rick Walker's blood. "My father built instruments, he built guitars. Just everyone in my family played music. It is an integral part of our ...

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

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.