Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of the mandolin. However, there’s a player out there who is about to change my mind–Hamilton de Holanda. The mandolin has a higher-pitched, kind of thinner sound ...

Santa Cruz's Painted Mandolin will be joined by Grass Valley's Broken Compass Bluegrass for a night of dancing and jamming ...

Bluegrass in general is having a heck of a year, and it just keeps booming. Thanks to younger torchbearers like Hull, Billy Strings, and Molly Tuttle, bluegrass is not only here to stay, but minting ...

Sierra Hull celebrated the release of her new album 'A Tip Toe High Wire' with a headlining concert at Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl. - Credit: Madison Thorn* It’s early evening in Asheville, North ...

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time, he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. WKMS's Derek Operle reports.

Sierra Hull toured with Billy Strings, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan in May. Hull's sixth album blends traditional and progressive bluegrass influences. Railbird marks a return to Lexington, where Hull ...

Sierra Hull has the courage to voice what every artist is thinking. "I'd be lying to say that it wouldn't be a dream to win a Grammy," she says, seated in her dressing room at the Beacon Theatre on ...

At the age of 5, Alan Bibey watched Bill Monroe play mandolin on the bed of a pickup truck at a street festival in Walkertown. "He was bigger than life. On the way home, I thought to myself, 'That's ...

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time, he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. WKMS’s Derek Operle reports. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news ...