The mandolin is a beautiful, strange, difficult instrument, tuned like a violin but with a flat, fretted fingerboard and eight strings instead of four. Played with a plectrum, it is capable of ...

AFTER THREE DECADES and a half dozen albums, Dana Rath almost broke up the Modern Mandolin Quartet. Now that the group is nominated for three Grammy Awards, he’s glad he didn’t. “Americana,” recorded ...

With his unparalleled virtuosity and contagious charisma, Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital has played the biggest concert halls around the world, from Wigmore Hall in London to Carnegie Hall in New York ...

When Nick Piccininni got the call in 2020 from Yonder Mountain String Band to sub in for some shows in place of mandolin player Jacob Jolliff, he wasn’t expecting it to be a big deal. “At the time, I ...