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Kids Rock Cigar Box Ukes at New Orleans Fest

It was all child's play at the First Annual New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Fest when local students from Encore Academy took the stage with…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

6 Jan 21, 2016
Reply by Rooster

Nation News: Kids Rock Cigar Box Ukes, Spoonman, Junk Cello Foot Bass, NAMM & more

Kids Rock Cigar Box Ukuleles at New Orleans Fest It was all child's play at the First Annual New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Fest when loca…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

0 Jan 19, 2016

VIDEO: Street Musician Turned Junk Upright Bass Into Foot Piano + Jesse Fuller's Fotdella

Here's a video that's been going around the interwebs for quite a while now.  It's a New Orleans street busker that made a "Fotdella" foot…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

1 Jan 19, 2016
Reply by Jim Morris

Cigar Box Guitars are Art, Even with Laser-Cut Parts

The most popular discussion this week has been what people don't like added to cigar box guitars.   The dogma has been running all over th…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

34 Jan 11, 2016
Reply by Mark C

MOTORHEAD: A Cigar Box Guitar Tribute

A few years back, Cigar Box Nation created a Motorhead Tribute Album.  In the wake of Lemmy's passing, we share it again with you here...c…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

10 Jan 7, 2016
Reply by Bristol Blue

Build a 2-String Coconut Shell Rebec Banjo

Originally published in Sing Out! Magazine - Volume 26/Number6/1978 Transcribed and archived by Shane Speal, Dec 2015.  Shane's notes:  The…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

10 Jan 7, 2016
Reply by J.Rob

VIDEO - Johnny Depp Plays Dobro & Cigar Box Guitar at Photo Shoot

Here's a chestnut from 2014 that we recently discovered.  Johnny Depp plays a beautiful dobro a (which provides the soundtrack to the short…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

8 Jan 6, 2016
Reply by the anonymous pick

VIDEO: Two Cigar Box Guitars and a Telecaster

Check out Duca Belintani's latest video, "Walking by Myself."  It's a simple little blues shuffle that has him triple tracked with two diff…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

0 Jan 6, 2016

Mini Documentary - Sandbox Percussion "Part & Parcel" performing 'junk chamber music'

Sandbox Percussion is an NYC based chamber music group that specializes in percussive compositions played on junk.  This quick documentary…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

0 Jan 6, 2016

Gas Can Basses

Youtube star, "SlapMonsterJoel" rocks out on a jerry can bass built by Marcus Reeves.  The bass is plugged into a Hartke LH1000 head and a…

Started by Cigar Box Nation

9 Jan 4, 2016
Reply by Charles Atchison

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