The upside of the mandolin was this: No one else had one. There were a hundred guitar players to every mandolinist. In fact, I didn’t know another mandolin player, so I had nobody to show me the ...

The common denominator with all those names listed is that they’re each phenomenal mandolin players — icons of the genre. Ellis has started to work his way up those ranks as a young musician ...

Through the late 19th and early 20th century, Harvard’s all-male Mandolin Club, alongside female mandolin players from Radcliffe, entertained the campus with their annual shows. Students could ...

I started out primarily as a bluegrass mandolin player, an endeavor for which Olympian levels of flatpicking are often ...

Frank Wakefield, a legendary bluegrass mandolin player, has reportedly died at the age of 89. With his brother Ralph, Frank was a member of the Wakefield Brothers in his teens. His official cause ...

In "Mandolin Man: The Bluegrass Life of Roland White," author and banjo player Bob Black gives us a book about a musician in which the music rings out -- and is never drowned out. That's because ...

“It's emblazoned in my inner ear.” Thile, a mandolin player and singer-songwriter, has covered a wide range of musical styles over his career. On the Minnesota Public Radio show "Live From Here," he ...

Born in Tennessee, Wakefield relocated to Dayton, Ohio, and got his start in bluegrass by collaborating with legendary singer Red Allen as a vocalist and mandolin player. In 1953, Wakefield ...

Mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis pairs with Marty Stuart for the new music video "Blue Smoke." - Credit: Laci Mack* Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the ...