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unusual facts about Harmonica


Yellow Pine, Idaho

It is home to the Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival, which is held the first weekend in August of each year and draws two to three thousand fans and musicians to the remote back-country of central Idaho where they enjoy music at the outdoor stage, auction of donated items, and vendor booths along the dirt street through the center of the village.It is located near Forest camp grounds, rivers and lakes.


Adam Gussow

Gussow's other musical credits include five months with the bus-and-truck tour of Big River; commercials for Coca-Cola, Nestea, and Swatch; and two decades as a harmonica instructor at the Guitar Study Center in New York and Jon Gindick's harmonica jam camps.

Balkan Samba Records

The label was founded by Levy in 2004 as a way for him to record and publish previously unpublished works of his own music and that of his associates and friends such as Chicago Symphony violinist Fox Fehling; the Latin/jazz group Chévere de Chicago, Howard Levy's Acoustic Express; guitarist Norman Savitt and an instructional DVD for advanced harmonica playing "Harmonica Out Of The Box,Vol. 1"

Best of The Blues Brothers

Elwood Blues – Backing vocals, harmonica; Lead vocals on track 6, Co-lead vocals on track 1

Brendan Hill

In 1983, while attending school at Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, Hill met Blues Traveler harmonica player John Popper.

Curley Weaver

Although he recorded on his own during the 1920s and 1930s, first in the style taught by his mother and later with the spreading Piedmont style, he was best known for duets with Blind Willie McTell - with whom he worked until the 1950s - as well as Barbecue Bob, Fred McMullen, and harmonica and guitar player Buddy Moss.

Darrell Mansfield

Mansfield has contributed vocals and harmonica to recordings by artists including Adam Again, Eddie Van Halen, Jon Bon Jovi, Loverboy, and Raphael Saadiq.

Donna Simpson

Donna's sister Vikki Thorn (née Simpson) also plays harmonica and sings in the band.

Finnegan Wakes

But it was also their first to feature their first established line-up of Ronnie Drew (vocals/guitar), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo)/mandolin), Luke Kelly (vocals/banjo), Ciaran Bourke (vocals/guitar/tin whistle/harmonica) and John Sheahan (fiddle/tin whistle/mandolin).

Flesh and Wood

James Law - keyboards, vocals, djembe, bodhran, Jews harp, mellotron, bush harmonica

Freddie Roulette

Earl Hooker's band, with pianist Pinetop Perkins, harmonica player Carey Bell, vocalist Andrew Odom, and Roulette, was "widely acclaimed" and "considered as one of the best Earl had ever carried with him".

George Malloy

He accompanied recitals for several well-known singers, including Eileen Farrell, Roberta Peters, Martina Arroyo, Elisabeth Söderström, and Todd Duncan, as well as the harmonica player Larry Adler, among many others.

Give Me One Reason

The song was covered in 1996 by blues vocalist and harmonica player, Junior Wells, on his album Come On in This House.

Harmonica concerto

Alan Langford: Concertante for Harmonica and Strings (1981, for Tommy Reilly)

Harmonica Frank

He could also play harmonica with his nose and thus play two harmonicas at once, a skill he shared with blues harp players Walter Horton and Gus Cannon's partner Noah Lewis.

Harmonica gun

Commencing in 1834 in Quincy, Illinois, he began to make harmonica guns and more conventional revolving rifles.

Howard Levy

These allow a harmonica player to obtain all the missing chromatic notes in the Richter-tuned diatonic harmonica.

Ian A. Anderson discography

Supporting artists: Al Jones (guitar, vocal), Elliott Jackson (harmonica), Noel Sheldon (jug)

Iantown

Iantown was the first album to be released under the name The Felice Brothers, however for the most part it features only Ian Felice on acoustic guitar and harmonica.

In a Special Way

Produced, by El DeBarge and the writing credits varying from El, Marty, James and Bunny, the album reached gold after the releases of the following singles "Time Will Reveal" and "Love Me in a Special Way" (which features fellow Motown artist Stevie Wonder on harmonica), which hit number one on the Billboard R&B and adult contemporary singles chart respectively.

Jack Poels

Jack Poels (Sevenum, 27 June 1957) is the singer, guitarist and harmonica player of the Dutch band Rowwen Hèze for which he has composed almost all the texts and music.

Lisbee Stainton

In 2012 Seth Lakeman was so impressed with Lisbee that he subsequently invited her to become part of his band singing and playing the banjo, harmonium, guitar and harmonica.

Little Walter

Jacobs was frequently utilized on records as a harmonica accompanist behind others in the Chess stable of artists, including Jimmy Rogers, John Brim, Rocky Fuller, Memphis Minnie, The Coronets, Johnny Shines, Floyd Jones, Bo Diddley, and Shel Silverstein, and on other record labels backing Otis Rush, Johnny Young, and Robert Nighthawk.

Maxwell Street

The scene opens with John Lee Hooker playing his song Boom Boom with Big Walter Horton playing harmonica, on the street before the film's stars, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, enter a restaurant owned and operated by Aretha Franklin looking for Matt "Guitar" Murphy and "Blue" Lou Marini.

MonkeyJunk

Band members include Steve Marriner on vocals, baritone guitar, harmonica, hammond organ; Tony D on lead guitar; and Matt Sobb on drums and percussion.

Onie Wheeler

Wheeler was born in Senath, Missouri, and learned to play guitar and harmonica as a child.

Pest of the West

Aspects of the musical cues used in the high noon duel between SpongeBuck and Dead Eye Plankton was from Sergio Leone's 1968 Spaghetti Western film Once Upon a Time in the West, complete with Ennio Morricone's harmonica riff used for the Charles Bronson character.

Pink Anderson

He still "went out" when he could with Leo "Chief Thundercloud" Kahdot (of the Potawatomi native Americans) and his medicine show, often with the Jonesville, South Carolina based harmonica-player Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson.

Porkbelly Futures

They are unique in that many of the members originally found success in other fields: former lead singer Paul Quarrington (1953-2010) was a writer and filmmaker; guitarist/harmonica player Stuart Laughton is a classical trumpet player with an international reputation as is bass player Chas Elliott (Toronto Symphony).

René Giessen

Giessen is widely known for playing the harmonica in various cover-versions of the title melody of famous German Winnetou-movies from the 1960s starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker.

Roger Clyne

Roger Meade Clyne (born January 13, 1968) is the lead singer, songwriter, rhythm guitar player, kazoo-ist, and harmonica-ist for Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.

Sailing to Philadelphia Tour

The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Glenn Worf (bass), Chad Cromwell (drums), Geraint Watkins (piano, accordion), and Mike Henderson (guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica).

The Broadside Tapes 1

It also included a song about the Profumo affair ("Christine Keeler") and it closed with a live cover of The Beatles' "I Should Have Known Better" (retitled "I Shoulda Known Better") featuring Eric Andersen on harmony vocals and harmonica.

The Jenerators

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

Things of Stone and Wood

Things of Stone and Wood or ToSaW formed in Melbourne in 1989 with Michael Allen on bass guitar and backing vocals; Greg Arnold on lead vocals and acoustic guitar; Justin Brady on violin, mandolin and harmonica; and Tony Floyd on drums and percussion.

The original line-up was Michael Allen on bass guitar and backing vocals; Greg Arnold on lead vocals and acoustic guitar; Justin Brady on violin, mandolin and harmonica; and Tony Floyd on drums and percussion.

Thomas Bloch

Among his many appearances and performances are the following: Amadeus (for the 2001 DVD edition), soloist in Milan La Scala (where he gave the first performance of the original version with glass harmonica of The Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor) during a recital, and a tour with Tom Waits, Bob Wilson and Marianne Faithfull in The Black Rider (2004–2006).

Torgau

According to journalist Andy Rooney, who was a correspondent in Europe at the time, the Red Army raided the Hohner accordion and harmonica factory at Torgau at the time.

TV Eye Live 1977

Scott Thurston: guitar, piano, harmonica, synthesizer (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7)

Victor Hugo Díaz

The sound of his harmonica was captured in the song Milonga Triste included in the film The Tango Lesson, directed by Sally Potter.

Waiting for Herb

James Fearnley - accordion, dulcimer, guitar, piano, harmonica, clarinet, banjo

Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb

Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb is a modern folk sextet from Malta, featuring Walter Micallef on vocals and guitar, Renzo Spiteri on percussion, Jes Psaila on acoustic and electric guitar, Eric Wadge on bass, Pawlu Camilleri on harmonica and Albert Garzia on piano and accordion.

Wayne Raney

After learning to play harmonica at an early age, he moved to Piedras Negras, Mexico at age 13, where he played on radio station XEPN.

Willis Alan Ramsey

Co-produced by Willis, Alison Rogers and Jamie Oldaker, guest musicians include Oldaker (drums, percussion); Sam Bush & Tim O'Brien (mandolin, vocals); Viktor Krauss, Roscoe Beck & Freebo (bass); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Walt Richmond (piano, organ); Joel Guzman (accordion); Marcia Ball, Tommy Malone, Abra Moore & Alison Rogers (vocals).


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