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The How-To Repository for the Cigar Box Guitar Movement!

Category: Cigar Box Guitar Performers

Want to know more about the bands and acts out there touring and playing cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments? Then this page is for you!

We are building the definitive list of active performers who use these awesome instruments on stage in their acts. From cigar box guitars and ukuleles to license plate dobros, frying pan and cookie tin banjos and even homemade percussion, we love it all and we want to help get the word out about these great artsts. This is a work-in-progress and we are adding more artists as we’re able, so stay tuned!

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Hollowbelly (John Farr)

Hollowbelly (John Farr)

Musical Styles: Blues, Punk, Lo-fi, Originals

Handmade Instrument Played: Cigar Box Guitar

“I struggle to understand these blues artists who endlessly retread the old blues standards – have they nothing to say? Are they so vacant they have to sing other people’s words?” – John Farr aka Hollowbelly. Continue reading “Hollowbelly (John Farr)”

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