Scott Albert Johnson is no stranger to the readers here. He was selected as our Harmonica Player of the Month and participated in our video tutorial series at SPAH several years ago (see video below). When we thought about who might be able to break down position playing to help people who might have only [&hellip...

Junior Wells was a Chicago-based blues harp player and singer. He is well known for his collaborations with Muddy Waters, Earl Hopper, and Buddy Guy. Bill Dahl describes him as “one bad dude, strutting across the stage like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking Chicago blues attack”. (Get the [&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...

Mark Hummel spent a good part of his life being the odd man out, which is to say, in the minority. And so it was that early on he was immersed in, and gained an appreciation for, the music and culture of races, places and cultures other than his own. His parents met at Yale [&hellip...

When Lee Sankey left a dispiriting music class as a kid he never thought he’d pick up an instrument again. Music, however, has a way of finding people. Sankey stumbled upon a James Hunter show in England in the late 1980s and quickly became obsessed with the harmonica, sometimes practicing for up to eight hours [&hellip...

A gold medal for playing harp? You betcha! Michel Herblin has won two gold medals from the Hohner International Harmonica Contest. Listening to his diverse range of music, such as blues, jazz, and folk, with a very precise technique and melodic tone it’s not hard to see why he’s a winner. Here’s a Herblin playlist [&hellip...