These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of jazz quintet and string quartet that tells his family's story across four generations. "Reading his ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra -- one of the most famous in Africa -- in 1994, they had so few instruments that musicians had to share.Armand Diangienda (C), founder ...

Thurston County Solid Waste and the Lacey MakerSpace are hosting a Fix-it-Fair where volunteers help repair broken items such as toasters, jewelry, clothing, bicycles, or lamps for free. This event ...

When DR Congo's Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra was founded thirty years ago it was a rag-tag band of around a dozen string musicians with so few instruments players were forced to share. Today it ...

The Alexander String Quartet will be coming to Roseburg to perform a selection of arrangements from composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

The instruments in the Violins of Hope, collected in Israel, regularly travel to be played around the world and arrived in Fairfield County earlier this month.

In a small courtyard dappled with light under a grape arbor, 65-year-old Nurdun Esmayil was making handmade folk musical ...

Connolly Music is the U.S. Source of Thomastik-Infeld world renowned strings such as Dominant, Dynamo, Peter Infeld, ...

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

The iconic sound of an orchestra tuning is highly recognizable, even for those who've never set foot in a concert hall. Many ...

Lewis grew up to become a wealthy music teacher and accomplished musician. The violin’s first female heir in more than 100 years was Lewis’ great-niece, Opal B. Wood, who passed it on to her niece, ...