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HOUSTON, Min. – Myrtle Otis is a soft spoken, fairly shy 88-year old. That is until she picks up her mandolin. Music has been a part of Myrtle’s life for many, MANY years. “I think it always has been.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. — When Wyatt Ellis, 11, first picked up a mandolin at nine years old, his journey got off to a rocky start. "I broke my arm twice," Ellis said. "The second time, I broke it playing ...

Dan Voight became interested in the mandolin at an early age. He not only wanted to play, he wanted to build mandolins that would perform to his high standards. Eventually performance and the art of ...

Frankie Harrison is well known in the eastern North Carolina music community, and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree as his son, Justin, tours with bluegrass band Nu-Blu. But it all started when ...

When R.E.M. began working on their 1991 album Out of Time, guitarist Peter Buck started learning how to play the mandolin and fell into a riff and then a chorus. With a tape recorder running, Buck’s ...