Derived from West African hamboning and popularized in the U.S. through 20th-century jug bands, the washboard has been used as a makeshift percussion instrument for more than 100 years. By adding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wide variety of washboards and other items are available at the factory gift shop. LOGAN — The last washboard manufacturer in ...

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - He is known at the Panhandle South Plains Fair as the one-man-band named Washboard Willy, who makes frequent musical rounds. He has practiced with his washboard contraption and ...

Did you know the home of the longest remaining washboard factory is right here in Ohio?There's a festival that takes place every year in Ohio since 2000 to celebrate washboards and the music that ...

In their heyday, washboards were instruments of laundry day drudgery. Today they're more likely to be instruments of good clean fun, as Conor Knighton now tells us: For serious players of the ...

For many of us, washing clothes by hand is no longer a necessity. Yet the simple ridged device used before the advent of washing machines is still in production today and continues to be used all over ...

-- "Rebellion is a word that comes to mind," Colin Duckworth says when asked how he'd sum up traditional Irish music. "There's a lot of history behind it, because a lot of the songs have to do with ...

"Washboard Jo" (Schofield) Burke performs with Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Playboys on Friday night at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.