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 ...

Mandolin player Radim Zenkl will be performing at a benefit for the homeless services organization Sojourner’s House on the Ridge. Zenkl invented a technique where he can play the melody and ...

Andrew Anderson, a 23-year-old Idaho mandolin player launches his new self-released album, "As Long As This Thing's Flyin.'" Photo Credit: Ki Johnsen Star rating: 4 out of 5 Andrew Anderson, a 23- ...

An ancient art brought over from Italy is seeing a resurgence in Bloomfield. The Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra, originally started by Italian immigrants 76 years ago, seeks new members to fill out its ...

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 ...

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In September 2012, 414 people gathered in Heraklion, Crete, to set the record for largest mandolin ensemble, according to the Guinness World Records website. Those hardy pickers felled a record that ...

The mandolin is a beautiful, strange, difficult instrument, tuned like a violin but with a flat, fretted fingerboard and eight strings instead of four. Played with a plectrum, it is capable of ...

Mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis pairs with Marty Stuart for the new music video "Blue Smoke." - Credit: Laci Mack* Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the ...

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 ...

Seventeen-year-old mandolin player Solly Burton will appear on an upcoming episode of From the Top, the hit public radio program featuring America’s best young classical musicians and hosted by ...

VAIL VALLEY – Last fall the female duo known as the Boxcar Daisies could be found busking with their banjo and guitar on Bridge Street in Vail, Colorado. Only six months later, they packed up and ...