The Southern Sacred Steel Conference runs Thursday, March 17, to Sunday, March 20, at The ArtsCenter and the Center for the Study of the American South. Prices for individual events range from free to ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

This article was originally published on October 8, 2025. In a small upstairs room of a Toledo church, Del Ray Grace is preserving a sacred piece of his Pentecostal upbringing. It isn’t an altar or a ...

“Memorial” isn’t a record that Rich Hinman needed to make. The Salem multi-instrumentalist already has a busy career playing guitar and pedal steel as a sideman for Josh Ritter, Rosanne Cash and Sara ...

Classify Roosevelt Collier as a man of steel. He’s no faster than a speeding bullet and can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, but he is powerful and mans the steel quite superbly. Collier steps ...

Jonny Campos thought there had been a nice arc to his solo project Weeks Island. When the Lost Bayou Ramblers went on hiatus in 2018, Campos, who plays guitar in the band, recorded “Droste,” a ...

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