Mandolin Cafe

Mandolin Cafe has details on another Butch Baldassari benefit concert, this time in Seattle on December 1 at Dusty Strings. Regular readers of Bluegrass Today will recall that Butch was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor earlier this year, and has

Our friends at MandolinCafe.com have teamed up with New Millennium Acoustic Design to give away a mandolin. The prize is a Mix A5 model carbon fiber mandolin. Starting this morning, September 15, 2007, visitors of MandolinCafe.com will be able to register

Mandolin Cafe is handling the sale of a Gilchrist Model 1 mandolin, recently acquired through an anonymous donor, which be sold online to raise money for Butch Baldassari's medical fund. Butch is undergoing treatment for an inoperable brain tumor, and

Regular readers will recall us noting the unfortunate news that Butch Baldassari was diagnosed with cancer a month ago. As we also mentioned in our previous post, the folks at Mandolin Cafe have set up a page where donations for Butch's

Butch Baldassari, a good friend to Bluegrass Today - and to everyone who loves bluegrass and mandolin music - has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He starts chemo and radiation treatments this week, and we send him our

Folks, it always bothers me when I hear that someone's instrument has been stolen, but it's especially troubling when it happens in your own area. Last week in Blacksburg, VA a 1994 Randy Wood F model mandolin with varnish finish, fern

If you are a mandolin player, or lover, here is a great opportunity for you. SoundArt Recordings is giving away several Apple iPods along with your choice of five CDs of mandolin music from the SoundArt Catalog as part of

Our friends at Mandolin Cafe have a unique item in their online store sure to please mandolinists on your holiday gift list. It's a coffee mug with a mandolin chord chart printed around the cup surface - it's two gifts in

Mandolin Cafe is directing attention to a post in their forum, that was started last September. The post contains a whole bunch of vintage photos from bluegrass festivals. It's great for scrolling through and saying things like "Wow!", "Oh My!",

Our friends at Mandolin Cafe have posted about a Memorial Fund in honor of Charlie Derrington, longtime Gibson employee and good friend to the mandolin and those who play one. Charlie was killed in a tragic auto accident a month