Learn to Play the Harmonica

Musicians Mike and Beverly Rogers will be at the Manchester Public Library on Saturday, January 26^th, 11 AM with a Harmonica Workshop for adults and children ages 8 and older. Everyone attending will not only hear the harmonica stylings of this musical duo, but will receive a harmonica lesson at the workshop to get you started with your very own harmonica to take home!

Mike Rogers has been playing harmonica since the age of fifteen. Mike performs with harmonica and guitar and is blind as a result of retinitis pigmentosa. He simultaneously draws on forty-eight years of professional musicianship, fifteen years of teaching secondary education and twenty years of performing in schools from Maine to Georgia and throughout the Bahamas. Mike is joined by his wife Beverly who brings to the duo ten years of substitute teaching experience as well as previous work as a children's storyteller for the public library system in Peach County, Georgia. They have been presenting these workshops for the past thirty years.

Mike and Beverly offer harmonica workshops for folks, ages eight through adult. Each student receives a harmonica. The workshop teaches simple songs and basic techniques. Most, if not all, students come away with a feeling of accomplishment and self-worth. Attitudes shift in each and every student, as they become absorbed with the process.

Winter can get a little quiet so let’s liven up the chilly air with some lively tunes at the Library. Please register for this event at 978-7711, or by stopping by the front desk of the Manchester Public Library.