The Dryden Ensemble, led by artistic director Daniel Swenberg, presents The Most Faithful Companion: Lute and Guitar Trios from the 17th Century on March 6. Joined by Adam Cockerham and Dušan Balarin, ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

Here, a lute is being crafted in a workshop. This week on Fretworks, I'll have some music for the mandolin and for the lute, as well as classical guitar. For good measure, there is also a piece for ...

The Blackbird Rider Nylon is an odd guitar, a mix of the traditional and the high-tech. First, the "nylon" in the name refers to the strings -- the guitar itself is made from carbon fiber, from the ...

Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar beyond its Spanish roots and expanded its range by commissioning dozens of works from major composers, and who also played a crucial role in ...

This month's Early Music Series in Grayslake features a concert by Nigel North, proclaimed by one music critic as "the greatest performer of the instrument of all time." Yet I don't even know the word ...