Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when every city in America had at least one and usually several mandolin orchestras.

The Classical Mandolin Society of America will convene in Kansas City Nov. 8 to 12, with some free concerts included. Casey Toth Raleigh News & Observer It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when ...

It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when every city in America had at least one and usually several mandolin orchestras. These large ensembles died out after the 1920s, but in recent years they ...

Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of the mandolin. However, there’s a player out there who is about to change my mind–Hamilton de Holanda. The mandolin has a higher-pitched, kind of thinner sound ...

To say Brian Oberlin is smitten with the mandolin is an extreme understatement. The award-winning performer plays baroque, romantic, swing, bluegrass, contemporary, classical, Cajun and folk music, ...

During this concert, Avital spoke about the mandolin’s identity conflict. A staple instrument of classical music in the 17th and 18th centuries, it is now more closely associated with folk. In his ...