Playing for Change was created in 2005 to spread a message of peace through music, particularly by street musicians from around the globe. It's perhaps best known for the video for "Stand by Me." ...

In their heyday, washboards were instruments of laundry day drudgery. Today they're more likely to be instruments of good clean fun, as Conor Knighton now tells us: For serious players of the ...

Derived from West African hamboning and popularized in the U.S. through 20th-century jug bands, the washboard has been used as a makeshift percussion instrument for more than 100 years. By adding ...

Sonoma County has always attracted and produced musicians. Some of them are well known internationally. Others have more limited fan bases existing mainly within the Bay Area, throughout the West ...

GUILFORD >> The holiday weekend will wrap up with an evening of Parisian-style hot jazz music Sunday. “CT Washboard” will feature Stephane Seva, premier washboard player of the internationally known ...