The Frankenstein-like theorbo is an integral part of the Baroque repertoire because they typically have 14 strings and offer ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

The Blackbird Rider Nylon is an odd guitar, a mix of the traditional and the high-tech. First, the "nylon" in the name refers to the strings -- the guitar itself is made from carbon fiber, from the ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Paul O'Dette made the leap from being a teen in a rock band playing Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to being today a renowned player of an Early Music instrument. O'Dette plays ...

From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

It could be argued that he, even more than Andrés Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument. By Allan Kozinn Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar ...

Journeys in the East Neuk Festival can be as short as a few hundred yards between venues, but encompass vast eras in time. Saturday’s Shibe Trail in Anstruther was very localised, although the ...

This month's Early Music Series in Grayslake features a concert by Nigel North, proclaimed by one music critic as "the greatest performer of the instrument of all time." Yet I don't even know the word ...

Strange though their pairing might seem, cult filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and Dutch lute whiz Jozef van Wissem have history: Last October, for instance, Jarmusch sat in with van Wissem during the latter’s ...