The kick-off for the 19th annual Cigar Box Festival is slated for Friday, June 2, at Salty Nut Brewery. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and anyone who plans to attend is encouraged to bring a chair.

Tuned to an open G chord, every fret down the neck forms a different chord. As a result, it’s considered a one-fingered instrument that Nasiatka said almost anyone can play.

MEMPHIS, TENN. -- — They’re built around wooden cigar boxes, just like untold thousands of homemade guitars patched together across America since the 1800s. But no minstrel-show performer or ...

In addition to performances from Fish, the 2020 Cigar Box Guitar Festival features a lineup of John Mooney, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles, Jonathon Long, Waylon Thibodeaux, Johnny ...

A smokin' slide guitar"Nineboys has already brought us the one-string Delta Wedge diddley bow, and here, made in the UK, is the 'upmarket' three-string version" Nineboys has already brought us the one ...

Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams ...

Tuned to an open G chord, every fret down the neck forms a different chord. As a result, it’s considered a one-fingered instrument that Nasiatka said almost anyone can play.

In the central Massachusetts town of Westminster, a local guitar player is strumming up quite the business with Dream Catcher Cigar Box Guitars. For 60 years, Eddie Nasiatka played guitar in rock ...