Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments have been around for close to 160 years. In the central Massachusetts town of ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

Pary Flynn's cigar box guitar made from an old sycamore tree that was on the Faucek/McKee Farm in Edwardsville. The farm is currently being developed into commercial businesses across from the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The world’s longest-running Cigar Box Guitar Music Festival is returning to The Rocket City! This three-day celebration of music, creativity, and community brings together ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – One annual music festival is returning to Huntsville to raise money for the Microwave Dave Education Foundation. The World’s Longest-Running Cigar Box Guitar Festival will ...

It begins as just a cigar box and a five-quarter stick of maple. With 12 hours work, four strings and skilled fingers, it's music. As a luthier, Roger Wendover has spent more than a quarter century ...

Bill and Alice Saurber are just regular folks from Hamilton, Ohio, playin’ with cigar boxes and pallin’ around. But that didn’t stop the married couple from vying for the title of “America’s Favorite ...

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.