One highly recommended way to do so is with the Creole String Beans. Powered by a couple of saxophones, the Beans pump out classic New Orleans rhythm and blues, swamp pop and Mardi Gras music ...

Can I pick up a book in a Thai bookstore on how to play the Thai phin -- a string musical instrument? No, but quite a few on the guitar. Yet the Thai phin, with its three strings, is a great ...

Guwahati: The 18th-century string musical instrument, the mandolin, was used in Assam from the time of World War II, with its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s. However, its practice and ...

The pair, along with musical director-turned-collaborator Justin Levine, were already nominated for a Tony Award this year for Best Original Score, one of 12 such nominations for the musical.

LAUREL WAMSLEY, BYLINE: On a recent evening in a Washington D.C. neighborhood, stringed music floats through the air under dark, cold skies. Stepping inside a local pub called Right Proper ...

Larry Miller, left, and other staff members from Metronome Music drop off a donation of 55 stringed instruments to Malabar Intermediate. Also pictured is Malabar orchestra director Lindsay Brown, ...

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For our Sounds Of The Season series, NPR's Laurel Wamsley takes us to one convivial gathering. LAUREL WAMSLEY, BYLINE: On a recent evening in a Washington D.C. neighborhood, stringed music floats ...