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 ...

Songs We Love is a series and a podcast that looks at the stories behind some of the songs we're playing on our new music discovery stream, WUNC Music. For this episode, Eric Hodge sits down with ...

Americans were once mad for mandolins. Yet today, most have disappeared. We visit one of the remaining mandolin orchestras, which is celebrating its 90th birthday. Mandolin fever swept the United ...

The New York Mandolin Orchestra turns 100 next month, marking a century of bringing people together over their shared love of making music and fostering community. “I think this is an extraordinary ...

Andrew Marlin is accustomed to spending the bulk of his time on the road. Since the late aughts—alongside his wife and musical partner, Emily Frantz—he has led the beloved Chapel Hill roots outfit, ...

I recently attended a musical concert given by the Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble at the Lititz Public Library. Their vast talent and repertoire is amazing, and it brought back memories of another ...

It’s not just the loss of live shows that rocked the multibillion-dollar concert industry this year. It was everything that came with it — industry workers’ livelihoods disappearing, album sales ...

Indianapolis-based Mandolin—which was named in 2022 as the most innovative music company by Fast Company magazine—announced Wednesday that it’s going out of business. The company emerged during the ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple Music playlists at the bottom of the page. After a 30-second bath of ...

Carrie Newcomer is an Indiana folk singer who doesn't see technology as being cold and heartless. To the contrary, she credits livestream concert company Mandolin for moving her close to tears of ...

The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra, the only one of its kind in the state, is coming to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The show will be from 1:30-3 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, as a part of the ...