In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Blues began with enslaved African peoples' work songs in the cotton fields of the Deep South of America. The Slave Narrative of Mr. Sam Polite, given at 93 years of age, chronicles that life. It was ...

Jazz and blues are often treated as one and the same — but how did one end up taking over and surpassing the other, ushering in the jazz age? That's a subject of an upcoming HBO biopic, called Bessie, ...

A four-day celebration of music, food and culture will return to Midhurst this autumn.