“Hobo blues” musician and three-string cigar-box instrument player Pinecone Fletcher became one of the grand finalists in last year’s national “King of the Blues” competition sponsored ...

Curated by Joanne Cole, host of KGNU’s “Blues Legacy,” the exhibit will feature more than a dozen cigar box guitars created by Donald DeNoncourt, Peter Faris, Michael Bradshaw and O’Reilly.

Speal, who now plays and builds cigar-box guitars for a living (and also runs a small museum, whose prize piece is a 102-year-old single-string instrument, out of a tavern in his native ...

Pary Flynn's handmade cigar box guitars caught Matt McGibany's eye at Alton's Mississippi Earthtones Festival.

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 gui… ...

The cigar-box guitar is undergoing a renaissance. In Chicago its most passionate proponent may be art teacher Diane Sutliff.

In an area called the Midway, she saw solo musicians playing this “crazy instrument” — a four-string guitar fashioned from a cigar box.

Sell-out crowd appreciates Cigar Box Guitar Madness Performers and audience members share their love for blues music and cigar box guitars in Westbrook last weekend.

GOLIAD - He can play just about anything - from blues to rock - on a small guitar made from an old cigar box, drain covers and a door jam.