Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

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Music has a funny way of surprising us. Sometimes it's not the guitar solo or the vocal runs that stick with you. You know the ones. The tracks where you pause and think, what is that? That little ...

Duck herders in Java have been using a traditional large bamboo object called a kowangan to protect themselves against the rain. The kowangan can be worn as a hat or be placed on the ground as a ...

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments. Or ...

WHEN AND WHERE: 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Flickinger Center for the Arts, 1110 N. New York Ave., Alamogordo; 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, Macey Center, 801 Leroy ...

The slides and bells from about a dozen trombones are stacked like cordwood in the wall sculpture “Seussaphone.” Tarnished parts of old cornets, trombones and other instruments are built onto an old ...

Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are. Most, but not all, of the composers of this year’s period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place. For Ridley ...