Since forming in 2009, Carrboro’s Mandolin Orange has grown in most every respect. They’ve shifted from an earnest bluegrassy duo to a more mature outfit that handles full-band finesse as easily as ...

Mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull brought her 'Tip Tor High Wire Tour' to The Troubadour in West Hollywood for a night of bluegrass brilliance.

Songs We Love is a series and a podcast that looks at the stories behind some of the songs we're playing on our new music discovery stream, WUNC Music. For this episode, Eric Hodge sits down with ...

Not long ago, I went to the funeral of a man I did not know. I had never even seen him or heard him speak a word. Saddest of all, I had never heard the talented musician play a single bluegrass note ...

Since 1993, Jamie Masefield's Jazz Mandolin Project has been offering an entirely new concept of what the mandolin can do. Pushing the boundaries with a new innovative sound, "JMP" has toured ...

Carrie Newcomer is an Indiana folk singer who doesn't see technology as being cold and heartless. To the contrary, she credits livestream concert company Mandolin for moving her close to tears of ...

The 22nd David Surette Mandolin Festival, to be held March 8-9 at the Concord Concord Community Music School, celebrates the many voices of the mandolin, a stringed instrument heard in bluegrass, ...

A mandolin made 111 years ago in Topeka by Albert Shutt, a highly regarded inventor and creator of stringed instruments, is now back in the capital city, where music store owner Jimmy Hayes is having ...