HERMISTON, Ore. — Les McMasters picks up his guitar and strums. Surrounded by bandsaws, tools and hundreds of wooden boards, he begins to sing in a smooth tenor, picking away at the guitar he built in ...

Wherever "Chaplain Ann" Bergstrom strolls, heads pop up and smiles break out. Nice as she is, the warm welcome is aimed mostly at the small, rounded stringed instrument she's plucking. The reverie ...

Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small stringed instrument on his lap. His intense ...

For 51 years, Lansing folk instrument shop, Elderly Instruments, has never lost its sound. Through location and ownership changes, the pandemic and even being recognized as America’s top small ...

Following several small tweaks to the performance date due to snow days, the Salisbury-Rowan Symphony’s After-School Strings Winter Concert was held Tuesday night at Isenberg Elementary School. The ...