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

HOUSTON, Min. – Myrtle Otis is a soft spoken, fairly shy 88-year old. That is until she picks up her mandolin. Music has been a part of Myrtle’s life for many, MANY years. “I think it always has been.

Chris Thile of Nickel Creek performs onstage for the 22nd Annual Americana Honors & Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 20, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Chris Thile says he fell in love with ...

When R.E.M. began working on their 1991 album Out of Time, guitarist Peter Buck started learning how to play the mandolin and fell into a riff and then a chorus. With a tape recorder running, Buck’s ...

The New York Mandolin Orchestra turns 100 next month, marking a century of bringing people together over their shared love of making music and fostering community. “I think this is an extraordinary ...

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 ...