Classical guitarist Jiji Kim runs through her performance of ''Aluminum Flowers'' with composer Steven Mackey during a rehearsal at Curtis Institute of Music. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa.

I remember the first time I saw Eddie Van Halen on MTV, the way he played two hands on the fingerboard during his "Jump" guitar solo. I loved his cool "Frankenstein" guitar, so named because he ...

Welcome back to First news this evening. It's the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California but we are talking about ways you can celebrate music history right here in the Metro. Especially right now.

(DMN file / Larry Morris/The New York Times) The Italian luthier Andrea Amati crafted the first modern violin in 1555, and music was never the same. A century later, Paduan music master Bartolomeo ...

It’s known as an axe, a git-box, twang harp, and six string sword. It can have 7,8, even 12 strings, and have multiple necks on one body. We’re talking about the guitar – the backbone of rock and roll ...

Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Silverthorne Elementary learned to rock Thursday morning, a la Jack Black from the “School of Rock” with Dillon’s Doug Roessel, owner of Summit Academy of Rock.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kalamazoo residents are invited to rock out with the National Guitar Museum when its traveling exhibit sets up at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. "GUITAR: The Instrument That Rocked The ...

Patrick Rafferty is a Missouri guitarist and professor. On March 2, he performed a combined lecture and concert on the history of the guitar at the University of Missouri. Classical 90.5’s Kiana ...

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath Chautauqua ...

Some guitar solos are more than just musical moments, they are the sounds that defined generations and influenced millions of musicians around the world. In this video we explore twenty of the ...

There’s something deeply compelling about the look, the feel and the sound of an acoustic guitar. It might come from hearing notes and chords ring out as its strings are played; it might emerge from ...