In 1997 Tim saw a photo negative plate owned by photographer Mark Austin – a young black man was holding a harp guitar. Through research Tim identified the man in the photo, and the photographer. Recently there was an article written about a nearly identical photo, now identified as the brother of the man in […]

Taj Mahal called me Saturday night and was excited as he had just learned that the legendary black jazz guitarist Charlie Christian’s father played the harp guitar. “What I would give to know what kind of music they played,” he said. In 1997 I met photographer Mark Austin, who had bought a glass plate negative […]

Music Maker Artist Willa Mae Buckner in her younger days – all that she taught us will not be forgotten Black History Month is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. For 20 years, Music Maker […]

Leyla McCalla releases her album at The Pinhook!   Tuesday 2/4 – Doors @ 8pm, Show @ 9pm   Leyla McCalla has been a Music Maker Next Generation Artist since 2011, and now we’re so excited for her release Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes – releasing on February 4th! Join us at Leyla’s CD release party […]

Listen:  David Bryant’s “One More Time” Around Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, it is tradition to listen to the blowing of the shofar, a primitive bugle made out of a ram’s horn. The idea is that hearing the shofar wakes up your conscious, and even though the year may have been a blur of […]