Seven-year-old Mason Woodland, a second grader at Clyde Elementary School, has always loved music. The son of Matt and Emily Woodland, he had a guitar by age three. When he and his parents attended ...

ANOKA, Minn. — Microsoft was born in a garage. Nate Otto’s garage is home to some much older tech. “Especially if you're in 1916, it’s the top tech of the day,” Nate says as he pumps the foot pedals ...

Knott’s Scary Farm visitors who belly up to the bar at the Calico Saloon can shout requests to a ghost pianist who plays everything from Ragtime masterpieces to summery pop hits by Katy Perry during ...

Geza Mika can easily play a Bach invention from memory. He says it was his strong ear that led him to lessons at an early age. "I could hear things and reproduce them on the piano," says Mika, who now ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - A 95-year-old pianist is retiring after filling the halls of an Iowa hospital with the sound of music for decades. Alice Tritle is a volunteer at Mercy Medical ...

LE SUEUR — Jim Plonske spent a lot of hours at what was then the Le Sueur Nursing Home when his mother and then his sister lived there before they died in 2008 and 2018, respectively. “I just used to ...

One Minnesota repairman brings musical history back to life. About a decade ago, Nate Otto opened Rum River Restoration in his Anoka garage to bring new life to the player piano. “It’s a piano that ...

Jon Suder demonstrates how his Steinway Spirio, a souped-up acoustic player piano, works in his Fort Worth home. Marcheta Fornoff / KERA News Jon Suder is one of a dwindling number of Americans who ...

Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba talks about how the disappearance of a talented young pianist compelled him to make this colourful, music-filled movie that features the voice of Jeff Goldblum.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A duPont Manual High School senior has died after battling cancer. Davis Randle, a basketball player for Manual was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in December 2023 after complaining ...

A duPont Manual senior who was diagnosed with cancer in 2023 has died.WLKY did a story on Davis Randle just a few months ago, when he finally was able to rejoin his Crimson teammates on the court.He ...

Megan Hall hit play on a grainy black-and-white video on her iPad, and the Steinway & Sons Spirio piano in a practice studio at USC Aiken’s Etherredge Center came to life. The keys on the ...