Mandolinist Mark Stoffel, he of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, has put together a fun little video for his current Mountain Home Music single, Barnyard Funk. This clever instrumental from Mark's imagination combines bluegrass improv with a funk groove, and
Kevin Strouth, mandolinist with Starlett & Big John, and his wife, Nicole, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Amelia Rose Strouth was born on November 19 in Fairfax, VA. She made her arrival at 4:32 p.m., weighing in at
Wyatt Ellis on the Grand Ole Opry (11/10/23) - photo by Nathan Leslie Wyatt Ellis, 14-year-old mandolin prodigy, made his artist debut on the Grand Ole Opry on Friday night last week. Only a small number of performers such as Dolly
Mandolinist Mark Stoffel, who currently plies his trade as a member of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, has a new single dropping tomorrow from Mountain Home Music, an instrumental he calls Barnyard Funk. It's a clever little tune in which
Akira Otsuka with DCBU President Carolyn Eyerly and his 2023 Washington Monument Award Celebrated capitol area mandolinist, photographer, and producer Akira Otsuka was presented with the 2023 Washington Monument Award by the DC Bluegrass Union on October 29. Born in Japan, Akira
Brandon Shuping with Glenda Martin Fuller when he picked up Shep The late Charles "Speedy" Shepherd was musician and luthier from Salisbury, NC. He primarily built fiddles, but once and only once, he made a mandolin. It was a more difficult
Mel Bay has released a new book that will be of interest to all players of old time string music. It's titled Dan Levenson's Master Collection of Old Time Tunes - Over 300 tunes in standard notation for all instruments, written
With grown children in their teens and above, Lynn Muir and Greg Burgess never expected "a surprise" to happen, but it did. Discovering they were pregnant later in life may have sent them into a tizzy, with preparation of repeating
Although Alex Meredith was born in Colchester England, he's spent most of his life in Siler City, North Carolina. Playing mandolin since his teens, Meredith's style is full of youthful inventiveness, which comes through on his debut solo project, The Friends
Grascals mando man Danny Roberts has a new single this week from his upcoming project with Mountain Home Music. It's an instrumental he wrote called West Virginia Red, which also features Tony Wray on guitar and banjo, Jimmy Mattingly on fiddle,
