Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

Anyone who saw the funny little square-shaped guitars at Mikel Doktor’s booth stand at the Music is Art festival might have thought Doktor had created some unique, alien-type of instrument. However, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald ...

North Carolina Musician Justin Johnson has always been drawn to stringed instruments. Starting with the beat up, one-string Stella guitar his mother handed down to him, Justin has played music with ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The world’s longest-running Cigar Box Guitar Music Festival is returning to The Rocket City! This three-day celebration of music, creativity, and community brings together ...

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HUNTSVILLE, AL. - What is a cigar box guitar? Technically, it’s a discarded cigar box with a hole for a 1-inch-by-2-inch fretboard. A hodgepodge of random items. Perhaps with a leather cord attached ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

EL SOBRANTE, Calif. (KGO) -- One man's trash is another man's treasure and this rings true for an East Bay man who is bringing life back into old items. Steve Zwetsch is pairing unlikely items ...

Next month, Samantha Fish and the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival present four days of music at two Crescent City Clubs (the fest runs Jan. 15 -18 at The Howlin’ Wolf and Chickie Wah Wah). For ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. -- — They’re built around wooden cigar boxes, just like untold thousands of homemade guitars patched together across America since the 1800s. But no minstrel-show performer or ...