A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

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 ...

PRIDE, LA (WVUE) - Many years ago, people who couldn't afford to buy a guitar would make their own out of a cigar box, and the distinct bluesy-folk sound of those homemade instruments is making a bit ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival is set for Saturday, June 3rd, but that may leave some wondering… what is a cigar box guitar? The do-it-yourself instrument is ...

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 ...

Anyone who saw the funny little square-shaped guitars at Mikel Doktor’s booth stand at the Music is Art festival might have thought Doktor had created some unique, alien-type of instrument. However, ...

Dean Moller is a blues guitar player and cigar-box guitar maker. The former professional woodworker was injured on a job site, ending his career in carpentry. He turned to making wooden bowls ...

If WT Bryant isn’t working with his hands, he says his world just doesn’t feel right. It’s that maker spirit that’s led him to reimagine objects like the cigar box. For nearly four years, Bryant has ...

He usually sticks to six-string guitars with Fender Stratocaster necks and four-string bass guitars. With headstocks and necks coming from an array of cherry woods, maple or oak, most cigar box ...