From bedazzled shells to "conch-peting" pros, Key West’s quirky tradition keeps the island’s musical spirit blowing strong ...

KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.

Music elites better table your ukuleles and unplug your theremins; science is bringing the noise with the newest in niche musical instruments. Or, more accurately, one of the oldest. A massive conch ...

Some 18,000 years ago, in a cave in what we now call France, a human being left behind something precious: a conch shell. It was not just any conch shell. Its tip had been lopped off—unlikely by ...

A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia. Archaeologists originally found the seashell in 1931, in a French cave that contains ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Who doesn’t need a little conch in their lives? The 2nd Annual Conch Shell Festival kicks off September 23rd at Little Village. The festival features the Cap’n Scuba ...