A lifelong North Caroliner, Marlin took an initial fascination to music with the purchase of his first guitar at age 14 in ...

In 1960 in rural Kentucky, a traveling welder purchased a $5 mandolin from a pawn shop for his five-year-old son, a bright-eyed boy who listened to WSM every Saturday night and dreamed of playing the ...

GRANVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's a style of music that includes a stand-up bass, the banjo, the mandolin, the guitar, and the fiddle. It has been passed down for generations. Now, someone is taking ...

Rhonda Vincent's ragin' across the country this spring and summer. The five-time International Bluegrass Music Association female vocalist of the year is on tour following the release of her first ...

Dennis White has been making up tunes ever since he learned to play the piano at 5 years old, sharing a bench with his mother. He would play many more instruments as he got older, and for many years ...

"MANDOLIN MAN: THE BLUEGRASS LIFE OF ROLAND WHITE" by Bob Black (University of Illinois Press, 280 pages, $20). In "Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White," author and banjo player Bob Black ...

The New York Mandolin Orchestra turns 100 next month, marking a century of bringing people together over their shared love of making music and fostering community. “I think this is an extraordinary ...