(The Harmaniac™) In August of 2001 he won 1st place in the diatonic division at the Yellow Pine, Idaho Harmonica festival. See Dennis Cooper perform "Wabash Cannonball" on a TurboTwenty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqne_6Gc9-k
With his recent 4th place victory at the world harmonica festival in Trossingen, and solo performances in France, Germany, Serbia, and Canada, Joe is truly and up-and-coming harmonica musician. Joe is available as a harmonica teacher, performer, and session musician.
World class harmonica player, author of Jazz Harp (Oak Publications, NYC, 1980), and composer of original works for harmonica, including The Act of Being Free in One Act, the first full-length CD of works for unaccompanied harmonica ever recorded, and The Second Act of Free Being, the CD that takes solo harmonica to a new level.
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Pat Missin
Can repair, modify, rebuild, design, write about, research their history, and teach people how to play them. I have served on judging panels at harmonica contests in the UK, Europe, and the US and given numerous workshops and seminars on all aspects of the harmonica.
Winner of the 1997 Hohner Harmonica World Championship, held in Trossingen, Germany. The site contains audio files, humor, instructional material, many great blues and harmonica links PLUS, the long awaited debut album, "House of Cards."