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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GALAX -- Aaron Williams wants to be a professional musician some day. That might be a good career choice because he clearly has no future in public relations or marketing. The 13-year-old mandolin ...

PUTNEY -- Twilight Music presents an evening of bluegrass music from Tennessee and Mississippi by 20-year-old mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull and her all-star quintet Highway 111, plus Bill Monroe-style ...

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 ...

From a new album, Such Jubilee, out on May 5, The folk duo returns with a ballad — short, simple and sweet — about holding close what's precious. Songs We Love: Mandolin Orange, 'Old Ties And ...