Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...

North Carolina Musician Justin Johnson has always been drawn to stringed instruments. Starting with the beat up, one-string Stella guitar his mother handed down to him, Justin has played music with ...

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You never know when inspiration will hit you. For Steve Armstrong, his moment arrived one evening last year while watching television. On the screen, a blues musician known as Seasick Steve set down ...

Sure, you could throw out the box once you’ve finished puffing your last cigar, but if you’re truly crafty, you take that box and turn it into music. A group of cigar box guitarists made a pilgrimage ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

HERNANDO COUNTY, FL (WFLA) – When a Hernando County man heard his daughter’s school didn’t have a music program, he started building guitars out of cigar boxes with his own two hands. “They have given ...

The Music Compound and the Suncoast Blues Society are partnering on Saturday to present a Cigar Box Guitar Workshop led by noted local blues musician Steve Arvey. The workshop for ages 8-18 takes ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

There isn’t much about the small house on an average street in a typical Royal Oak neighborhood that would make people think anything out of the ordinary is happening inside. But the cigar box guitars ...

Sharon and Larry Allen make a good team. He makes cigar box guitars and she plays them. At 2024 May Fair on Campus Corner the couple had a tent set up alongside other vendors displaying a variety of ...