HAMDEN-- It would be difficult to overstate the respect with which Tim O'Brien is viewed within the roots music community. For fans of bluegrass, it's enough just to say he's one of the founders of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mandolin player Chris Thile was one of 23 people awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius grant" Monday. The foundation cited him as "a young mandolin virtuoso whose lyrical fusion of traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Ian Buckspan, Susan Grace, Tim Crouch, Dennis Crouch, Greg Blake and Keith Reed, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado College, free; 389-6607. By the time ...

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 ...

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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- ...

Mandolin player Sierra Hull isn’t one to put too much emphasis on the words child prodigy. “I’ve heard that term thrown around a lot,” Hull said in a phone interview. “But the truth is, I love to play ...

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 ...