This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

The Blackbird Rider Nylon is an odd guitar, a mix of the traditional and the high-tech. First, the "nylon" in the name refers to the strings -- the guitar itself is made from carbon fiber, from the ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Paul O'Dette made the leap from being a teen in a rock band playing Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to being today a renowned player of an Early Music instrument. O'Dette plays ...

The Dryden Ensemble will present THE MOST FAITHFUL COMPANION: LUTE AND GUITAR TRIOS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY on Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50 Cherry Hill ...

Journeys in the East Neuk Festival can be as short as a few hundred yards between venues, but encompass vast eras in time. Saturday’s Shibe Trail in Anstruther was very localised, although the ...

I tell strange stories from music history, and offer up words of advice for your next romantic rendezvous. The guitar—as well as its predecessor, the lute—is the instrument of seducers. This isn’t a ...

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...