Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin first met through mutual friends at a bluegrass jam in 2009. A "mysterious warmth," as Frantz likes to call it, materialized between the two, and they formed Mandolin ...

Bluegrass music can transport listeners with the instrumental dexterity of the players, as those acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles, and other back-porch instruments churn away in mesmerizing fashion.

NASHVILLE — As soon as the music starts, there’s something at once odd yet familiar about it. The oh-so-’80s keyboard part has been replaced by a mandolin, and the searing electric guitar solo is now ...

Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the bluegrass world and appearing alongside some pillars of the genre — Bobby Osborne, Sierra Hull, Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, ...

When lightning struck, Buddy Merriam listened. Merriam, 58, who lives in Sound Beach, has made a living as a bluegrass musician for the past 30 years - a career launched after lightning hit a neck ...