Fender introduced its Paramount Series for discriminating acoustic players at Winter NAMM 2016, and the company has been busy updating and augmenting it in 2022. Fender started off the year with three ...

In the early days of bluegrass music, two companies were largely responsible for creating that sound – Martin, for its guitars, and Gibson, for its mandolins and banjos. Even today, bluegrass ...

Not since the 1980s — a golden age of sorts for newgrass and new acoustic pickers’ projects — has a single year yielded so many exceptional recordings by instrumentalists. The hardest to find should ...

STURTEVANT -- The Route 20 Bluegrass Jam is for anyone and everyone who sings and/or plays a bluegrass instrument: guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass or dobro! They jam on the 1st and 3rd Thursday ...

A Seymour native found his calling in life through the craftsmanship of a well-known bluegrass instrument, the mandolin.

The mandolin isn’t just an accent in J Carmichael’s music — it’s the driving force behind his unique Americana-rock blend. Influenced by improvisational bluegrass and jazz, Carmichael was drawn to the ...

Star banjo player Ned Luberecki sits back in an armchair at a Prague music hall, contemplates the instrument he’s holding, then gently begins strumming. “I’m still waiting on a name for it. I’ve just ...