After many years of living in France, fretted string virtuoso Robin Bullock now calls Black Mountain home. He is often elsewhere, however, performing as a soloist or accompanist or teaching at music ...

What would Johann Sebastian Bach make of a goat rodeo? There can be little doubt that the greatest composer ever would have been unfazed hearing his music played by a trio of cello, mandolin and bass, ...

A lot of rock bands visit the NPR studios with maybe a fiddle or two in tow. But Miracles of Modern Science are not a typical rock band. The group boasts a mandolin, upright bass, cello, violin, drums ...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma (@YoYo_Ma), mandolinist Chris Thile (@christhile) and bassist Edgar Meyer (@EdgarMeyerJr) enjoy playing together — in 2011, they teamed up with Stuart Duncan for "The Goat Rodeo ...

‘Despacito’ has been making waves in the musical covers world recently. But this is the definitive version, you can all stop trying. The Brooklyn Duo are Marnie and Patrick Laird, a pianist and a ...

Based on the CD Rusty’s Waltz, it’s hard to tell where Jen Powelson stops and the band Haven James starts, meaning that while there is some additional instrumentation on the disc — tiny doses of ...

In this DW Festival Concert we'll hear mandolin superstar Avi Avital join forces with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider to present old, new and genre-blending works at the 2023 Beethoven Festival in ...

Fourteen hands, seven voices, two guitars, a banjo, mandolin, cello, violin and drum kit. Four friends, one father, his two children and an assortment of bells and noisemakers: that’s a breakdown of ...

An ancient art brought over from Italy is seeing a resurgence in Bloomfield. The Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra, originally started by Italian immigrants 76 years ago, seeks new members to fill out its ...