A backyard woodshop full of teenagers smack in the middle of a rough-and-tumble neighbourhood in a metropolis surrounded by the world's largest rainforest. Perhaps not the first place many people ...

Dave Helmer has worked as a luthier in Iowa City for several years now in addition to working on his new solo record Such A Clown. Standing in his luthier workshop in Iowa City, Dave Helmer calls ...

Wednesdays in Wooragee are violin-making days. Each week, luthier Kevin Williams and an assortment of his unofficial apprentices can be found in the workshop in the backyard of his sprawling ...

FILER - Mandolin maker Ron Cole's reward: hearing his instruments in the hands of accomplished musicians. "Oh boy, it feels good," he says. He listens for the deep tones or brilliant midrange brought ...

Andrew Schrock (singer/songwriter), Dutch Conway (bass), Nate Heymoss (guitar), drummer Paul Bauer (drummer) and Tom Eldred (keyboard) make up the Kalamazoo funk/soul band The Mainstays. The band will ...

KALAMAZOO, MI --Ed Bronson and Glen Guarisco sat around a table at the Radisson Hotel with three other musicians strumming strings. Until their impromptu jam session Saturday afternoon, only a few ...

When you walk into Samir Karnik’s Grant Road workshop, you’ll be greeted by guitars in various stages of production, and sawdust resting on every surface. The 28-year-old works as an environmental ...