A small-town music store became the center of a social media storm when a perp pocketed (literally) two instruments right before Christmas.

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 ...

Nov. 21—When speaking to country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, there are many things to talk about, but not enough time to cover everything. During our conversation, I got to ask him about his ...

HILLSBORO -- Two dozen musicians sit in semicircle rows on the hardwood stage, fine-tuning their instruments and organizing the sheet music on the stands before them. At the center, a compact, ...

In the spring of 1976, Joni Mitchell trekked out to the North Shore of Staten Island to the Mandolin Brothers, In the spring of 1976, Joni Mitchell trekked out to the North Shore of Staten Island to ...

On Sunday night (Oct. 21), Ricky Skaggs joined the Country Music Hall of Fame, as part of the organization's Class of 2018. His musical mentor, the "Father of Bluegrass," Bill Monroe, died more than ...

Chris Thile's love affair with the mandolin started early in life: at age two he fell for it when he heard the instrument played at a pizza place near his home. "It was small and high pitched, like me ...

Sierra Hull has the courage to voice what every artist is thinking. “I’d be lying to say that it wouldn’t be a dream to win a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Once stocked with more than 1,000 rare and expensive stringed instruments, there are only 12 guitars and banjos left on the wall of Mandolin Brothers in West Brighton. The shop ...