For the past decade, the India-born vocalist and harmonica player Akarska “Aki” Kumar has left an increasingly larger imprint on the blues world and the harmonica community. Kumar learned to play at David Barrett’s famous School Of The Blues in San Jose, California and then started to gig regularly in the Bay Area, eventually forming [&hellip...

There are many harmonica players who are not just great at harmonica, but at singing as well. Here are probably the most outstanding musicians, who sing in genres like rock, blues, Americana and soul AND crush it at harp. Guy Forsyth Guy Forsyth is an Austin, Texas-based musician, singer, harmonica player, storyteller and songwriter. Forsyth [&hellip...

Are You Ready To Get Started Mastering Your Bends? Try out Harmonica.com’s free Bend It Better™ web app for yourself below. Be sure to check out the video and read all the tips found further down the page to learn how to use it. See if you can climb the ladder from Level 1 to [&hellip...

YES! Because the other retreats sold out so fast, I’ll be hosting an additional 5-day harmonica retreat at my home in Kauai for beginning and intermediate-level harmonica players. I’m limiting this retreat to only 12 harmonica students so I can get to know you and personally help you with your biggest harmonica challenges...

Love Me Do Love me do is a first Beatles single, released in 1964 and peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the States. Harmonica was played by John Lennon, he starts off with a simple mixolydian riff which is followed by a riff that contains unbended notes that are out of C harmonica Richter tuning, [&hellip...

It is said that good things come to those who wait, an optimistic phrase demanding patience, often in the face of hard times, and doubt. Though many would argue that Paul Butterfield was a game changer, innovator and rule-breaker, taking the harmonica and the blues to a whole new level, there was very little beyond [&hellip...