Bryan Bowers was attending a jug band party in Richmond, Virginia, when a physician who loved folk music brought out an autoharp. “He started playing ‘Shady Grove,’ an old English song. And the ...

Walt Michael, Common Ground on the Hill founder and hammered dulcimer player, will present two concerts this weekend. Michael will be joined by Bryan Bowers, Autoharp master, for a concert at 7:30 p.m ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Spend "An Evening with Bryan Bowers" as part of the Danforth Gallery's Art Attack series, Tuesday ...

LYMAN — Four decades ago when Bryan Bowers was, as he put it, “flat-bellied and brown-haired,” he became so obsessed with the autoharp that he rigged his car’s steering wheel so he could drive with ...

New CD Celebrates Masters of Old-Time Autoharp In the 1950s, Mike Seeger sought out and recorded the traditional Southern music of the autoharp, a 36-string instrument small enough to hold in your lap ...