BAMBERG, Germany (Sept. 5, 2013) -- Sgt. Kyle Hagemann of U.S. Army Garrison Bamberg won third place in the Novice Wood division of the 2013 Army Arts and Crafts contest, for his piece titled "Kyle's ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

Empty cigar boxes are like mini treasure chests waiting to be transformed into something new. Even if you only have one lying around the house, there is a lot of potential for what it could be. Cigar ...

"It's by no means a new craft or a new way of creating instruments," he said. "When the cigar box came along it was pulled into this longstanding tradition of turning whatever was handy into a musical ...