Once a week from January to March Greg Bjork drives from Orono to Portland and back. That’s a round-trip of about 270 miles.

GREENVILLE — Two years ago, Andrew and Stephen Oliver came up with an idea for a YouTube skit. What if one of them pretended to break the world record — 26 hours and 41 minutes — for mandolin playing?

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 ...

A psychedelic folk-rock band whose mandolin player recently broke a world record will perform Friday at The Rooster in Gastonia. Brothers Andrew and Stephen Oliver formed Brother Oliver in 2013, and ...

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 ...

Eicher, 16, recently won the mandolin division of the National Flat Picking Championships in Winfield, Kan. It was his third year to participate in the festival competition. Even though the Charles ...

Marty Stuart is a top-notch country singer, songwriter, and musician. More than that, he’s a historian of the genre. His Congress of Country Music in Philadelphia, Mississippi chronicles the history ...

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