For musicians who wanted to learn the finer points of flat-picking or mandolin strumming, Greg Townsend will be missed as one of Sacramento’s go-to teachers. The acclaimed bluegrass musician and ...

After violin, guitar, harmonium and harmonica, the eight-stringed strumming instrument -- mandolin -- demands its due from its players in India. To celebrate its unique melody and legacy, it was ...

The scenery, production values, good intentions and overall filmmaking skill that went into making "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" are so sublime that's it's a shame the film doesn't add up to be more ...

KOCHI: The strumming of the mandolin spills over Shrinivas's speckless living room in Vadapalani. A photograph of the Paramacharya with the dandam hangs on the wall. And figurines of Nataraja ...