Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — A concert spotlighting the music and magic of "The American Mandolin" is set for Thursday, Nov. 8, at the Brattleboro Music Center. The 7 ...

I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

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 ...

Pop diva Kylie Minogue is back in her “natural habitat” with a triumphant return to her disco roots. “Gnarly heavy rockers” AC/DC make a blistering comeback with Power Up and Avi Avital, the world’s ...

Carrie Newcomer is an Indiana folk singer who doesn't see technology as being cold and heartless. To the contrary, she credits livestream concert company Mandolin for moving her close to tears of ...

It’s not just the loss of live shows that rocked the multibillion-dollar concert industry this year. It was everything that came with it — industry workers’ livelihoods disappearing, album sales ...

I recently attended a musical concert given by the Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble at the Lititz Public Library. Their vast talent and repertoire is amazing, and it brought back memories of another ...

As one can imagine, St. Patrick’s Day is a busy time of year for Irish-themed bands everywhere, and Detroit’s Stone Clover is no exception. “It’s our Super Bowl, I call it,” says band frontman and ...

When Emily Frantz introduced “There Was A Time” Saturday night at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall, she called it an “old one.” The barbed, heartbreaking tune appears on 2013’s This Side of Jordan, ...

The Carpe Diem String Quartet and Jeff Midkiff seem to have settled into a beautiful friendship, which is fine with the mandolinist and composer. "They're one of the finest quartets in the country, ...