Generally with folk you’ll be playing fingerstyle, but standard strumming is commonplace too and sounds great with open-string drone chords. Altered tunings feature heavily and will help bust you out ...

Guitar skills: Generally an acoustic guitar style, contemporary folk was huge in the late '60s and '70s and has broadened out ever since, with modern players such as Ed Sheeran and Jake Bugg ...

Doc Watson's lips are moving, but no sound comes out. Not from his mouth, anyway, though it looks as if he's trying to speak the notes as well as play them on his guitar. Watson has huge hands, ...

A seasoned blues-man. A world-renowned eclectic pop band. A British folk guitar legend. A revered classical guitarist from Uruguay. The seventh annual WNED Buffalo Niagara Guitar Festival is like an ...

The Highland String Trio, a Maine folk band, continues the annual Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series on Thursday, July 22, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater at the college’s Lake ...

Musician and instrument-maker Mateusz Raszewski is reviving the art of designing, building, stringing and playing the Kalisz bass KAMINSKO, Poland: Dancing couples spin, whirl and pirouette on their ...