Frank Wakefield, a legendary bluegrass mandolin player, has reportedly died at the age of 89. With his brother Ralph, Frank was a member of the Wakefield Brothers in his teens.
Last but not least, country and bluegrass mandolin players (such as Bill Monroe and Jethro Burns) have made their mark with ...
Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a ... names listed is that they’re each phenomenal mandolin players — icons of the genre. Ellis has started to work his way ...
I'm preparing for that. I hope I got more,” he said with a laugh. He’s teaching his 15-year-old grandson the craft too, nourishing the next generation of mandolin makers, players and listeners.
The 12 must-see music outdoor and indoor concerts to attend in Greenville in June, including 21 Savage, the Greenville Jazz ...
Frank Wakefield, an innovative bluegrass mandolinist who expanded the instrument’s range, died Friday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at the age of 89. With his brother Ralph, Frank ...
He first made his mark in the early 1950s after joining a band led by the singer and guitarist Red Allen as a vocalist and mandolin player. Working in Ohio and the Upper Midwest and, by 1960 ...
Dustin Arbuckle and Tom Page met through mutual friends in the Kansas music scene. Around 2005, they started performing ...
"We're finding positivity and wonderful moments by bringing back some of Jeff's songs," says bassist Ben Kauffman.
By the time he was 16 and a student at Citrus High School, Joey Lazio of Hernando already was playing trumpet, drums, string ...
The San Diego Mandolin Orchestra was co-founded in 1968 by Victor DeGuide, who had played viola with the San Diego Symphony and taught music in local schools. With several adult students ...
The common denominator with all those names listed is that they’re each phenomenal mandolin players — icons of the genre. Ellis has started to work his way up those ranks as a young musician ...