Make Music Day KC - Hohner Harmonica Experience for Beginners

Make Music Day Kansas City presents Hohner Harmonica Experience for Beginners. It will be happening on Friday, June 21st at Lakeside Nature Center located at 4701 East Gregory Blvd., Kansas City, MO 6413 from 11:00 AM -12:00 PM. Local musician Russ ‘KidMan’ Schenke will be demonstrating basic technics and other insights on the harmonica. This clinic is open to all ages and no experience is necessary. A limited number of harmonicas will be provided courtesy of Hohner Harmonica. Learn a little bit and take some music with you! Join us!

Tuning up for the Hohner Harmonica Experience! The experience has Russ "KidMan" Schenke on harmonica accompanied by Patrick Recob on guitar demonstrating some blues riffs for the local news station.

Originally from Chicago, instructor Russ Schenke played and recorded with several American Roots and Blues bands before moving to Kansas City and becoming part of Blues scene. He has focused for over a decade on blues harmonica, learning tone, style and skill from local Blues legend Lee McBee, Jimmie Meade of LeVee Town and other KC harmonica greats.

Russ "KidMan" Schenke presents the Hohner Harmonica Experience in a casual and informative setting. Participants are provided a harmonica from Hohner when they register for the Make Music Day event. This is a really great introduction to an instrument you can take with you anywhere!

Here's an impromptu jam between Russ "KidMan" Schenke and Howard Mahan to kickoff the inaugural Make Music Day Kansas City in Lemonade Park in 2021- Hohner Harmonica Experience.