Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the bluegrass world and appearing alongside some pillars of the genre — Bobby Osborne, Sierra Hull, Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A bluegrass innovator, he recorded numerous albums as a leader, and his list of collaborators included both Leonard Bernstein and Jerry Garcia. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren reports on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It’s kind of surreal,” Vernon native Nick Piccininni said, describing the feeling of preparing to play at the Stanley Theatre for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, guitarist Roland White ...

Mandolin Orange, the Americana duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, will now be known as Watchhouse. The pair announced their band's name change on Wednesday (April 21). "New music, same us," ...

Name dropping is a show business tradition, and competition is brisk, but musician John Jorgenson may have a shot at the all-time title for the most impressive list. Jorgenson has recorded or toured ...

SANTA CRUZ — For a form of music known for taking numerous twists and turns over the course of a single song, it should come as no surprise when jam bands go off in unexpected directions. That was the ...

Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at the age of 89. Watch "Blues Stay Away from Me - Frank ...