An instrument long associated with angels and virtue plucks its way across musical genres and social media. By Alexis Garcia “I am not the quintessential image of a harpist,” said Brandee Younger, 37, ...

Critics and their worn-out thesauruses eventually do a number on almost every musical instrument, but the harp is perhaps the most routinely maligned by adjectives: ethereal, celestial, ghostly, ...

Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...

For most professional musicians, playing music is when they feel most alive. It engages the whole being — intellect, body, and heart. It’s how they best express love, anger, humor — even confusion. As ...

Days before the 2021 Grammys, Madison Calley received some devastating news: The harpist was supposed to perform with rapper Roddy Ricch, but when Ricch decided to head in a different direction, ...