Everyone has dreams but not everyone achieves them. Ray Choi has. Choi is one of the world’s top autoharp players, and he demonstrated it at the 2017 Mountain Laurel Autoharp Championship, according ...

GARDEN GROVE – You probably never heard of Ray Choi. He runs a little music shop in Garden Grove, where he sells an odd instrument with 37 strings. It looks like a zither, which is to say it resembles ...

Most people's experiences with the autoharp begin and end with grade school sing-a-longs. But in the 1950s, a man named Mike Seeger proved that you can play real music on the small, 36-string ...

For many, the autoharp is remembered as the slightly geeky, easy-to-play instrument from grade-school music class, or as the accompaniment for folk and country singers in the late 1950s and '60s. It's ...

It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ Harvey What is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or ...

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WRFA-LP 107.9 FM’s “Rolling Hills Radio” will feature a performance by Bryan Bowers, a 1993 inductee of the Autoharp Hall of Fame, on Thursday, May 25, at the Robert H. Jackson’s Carl Cappa Theater.

He had been an officer in the United States Army, a veterinarian who operated a zoo for jungle animals, and a professional luthier who hand-crafted his own instruments. But by his own admission, ...

Bucky Monger, well-known Elkton resident and accomplished autoharp player, shared his musical talents with 35 East Rockingham Senior Center members and three volunteers/guests on April 8. Mr. Monger ...

Bryan Bowers was attending a jug band party in Richmond, Virginia, when a physician who loved folk music brought out an autoharp. “He started playing ‘Shady Grove,’ an old English song. And the ...