Jason Silverman has come a long way since his very first “gig”—a term he uses loosely, considering he played it with a “guitar” he’d made from elastic bands and a shoebox.

Playing music is a common way to deal with the winter blues, and a rubber band guitar is a classic rubber-based household project. Just take a shoebox and stretch a few bands tightly around to get ...

If you”ve ever fantasized about creating a guitar out of an old shoebox, your ship has just come in. The museum”s downstairs atrium will be the central point for the performances, which will ...