ANDOVER | The girls had just finished jamming to Led Zeppelin's song "Going to California." But Zeppelin fans might have had a hard time recognizing it on a first listen. The song sounds a little ...

William Close tells the crowd at City National Plaza that he's still figuring out the logistics of his latest Earth Harp. Over the years, the Malibu-based artist has built a number of these large, ...

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. String player William Close is one musician who likes to think big. Very big. Close plays his own invention, the earth harp, which uses ...

Four years ago, Andrew Kasab brought home a pair of cheap acoustic guitars. In fact, one was so damaged that it was freea gift from Music & Arts, the instrument retail store where Kasab has taught ...

When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...

With all due respect to David and the secret chord the biblical hero played to please the Lord, the harp has never exactly been the coolest of instruments. There is a softness, a celestial kind of ...