After an outdoor concert in New Hampshire in 2014, I waited in line to ask Ricky Skaggs to autograph his CD and to talk with him. A large man with flowing white hair, Ricky sat at a utility table and ...

MOSES LAKE – That old mandolin has been a lot of places, from Depression-racked Arkansas to the Grand Ole Opry. And now it has a home. “My grandfather inherited this when he was 4 years old, (in) 1928 ...

Aaron Castilla is a 21-year-old fiddling and mandolin bluegrass sensation who lives in Spokane Valley. Later this month he leaves for California where he’s landed a gig with a respected touring ...

The mandolin is out of tune, and Albert Varhola doesn’t have a pick. The neck is worn, and part of its green label has chipped away. Varhola doesn’t play the mandolin – or any instrument. He never has ...

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Wyatt Ellis no longer gawks at the letterpress posters on venue walls harkening the arrival of a century of bluegrass maestros to the stages the 14-year-old mandolin prodigy plays. While seated at one ...

Mandolin Magic will have a few different events this year, culminating in the big concert at St Peter's Anglican Church in Gympie. As with the previous concerts, Sue has invited friends from ...

It’s been a busy year for Sierra Hull who has spent much of it criss-crossing the country on tour. Now, with 2025 drawing to a close, she’s finally been able to catch her breath and look back at some ...

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 ...

A 129-year-old instrument central to an upcoming theatre production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has been lost less than a month before the show’s opening night. Alex Mugnaioni, who plays the dashing ...