Consider the harmonica: So simple an instrument in design, yet so complex to master. In the hands of amateurs it produces caterwauling mayhem, like a sonic hairball stuck in a vacuum cleaner. In the ...

ASPEN Several years ago, after meeting and jamming with DJ Logic at a San Francisco benefit concert, John Popper put together the John Popper Project. The quartet, a side gig from Popper’s day job as ...

ASPEN John Popper has two theories for how the harmonica came to be his instrument of choice.The first is that the harmonica was easy to play. Popper was detected, as a 3-year-old, harmonizing in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This harmonica was made by M. Hohner ...

A recent Friday, 10:21 a.m.: Sitting on a 5-gallon bucket in front of tourists waiting to get on the Powell Street cable car, Vincente "Blue" Blupriest belted out his version of the blues with a ...