Women artists are pushing back against gender stereotypes at the French heavy metal festival Hellfest, where men have long ...

Besides Czarnetzki and other musicians from throughout the Midwest, the featured player will be Ron Elliott, a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame who has played with Hawkshaw Hawkins ...

After more than 55 years, Randy Boyd doesn’t only continue to play the steel guitar because it’s “fun.” Originally from Port Lavaca and now a Victoria resident, Boyd sees the instrument as ...

A rare female virtuoso on an instrument long dominated by men, Ms. Alcorn erased boundaries for pedal steel guitar — a console ... like the guitarist and banjo player Eugene Chadbourne, the ...

In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed ... the Champ as a tool for professional players, and certainly the model has ...

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has died. The High Zero Foundation, an experimental music organization and ...

Guitar Player will halt publication after almost 58 years, putting out one last issue on Oct. 15, with an interview with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page as the final cover story to hit newsstands.

Pedal steel guitar is a strange and complicated instrument. Typically, a shiny steel table with 20 strings on top played with metal picks and a metal slide, plus foot and knee pedals to bend notes.

Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter ... “Pedal steel players have reverb effects pedals that we can use all the time. But for this recording ...

Dozens of bands, steel guitar players, and fans came for the music, but stayed for the fellowship. The convention started back in 1987 in Saluda, moving to nearby places like Belvedere and Augusta ...

He’s a recruit, part of a new generation of players trained by Akaka, who is working to keep the practice alive and knows the clock is ticking. Akaka, who has been playing Hawaiian steel guitar ...