North County Bluegrass & Folk Club

The mandolin has been heard from the earliest incarnations of blues to the contemporary roots music revival. Now learn the essentials of the style by playing 13 classic tunes with Steve James' Roots and Blues Mandolin.

The Loar has announced the release of their first x-braced A-model mandolin, hand-carved by their team of expert luthiers at The Loar Hand Carved Workshop, the birthplace of the best-selling LM-400, 600 and 700 mandolins.

One of the leading voices on mandolin in Scottish traditional music, Kevin Macleod along with Ali Beag MacLeod have released Braes Of Badentarbat, performed on melodeon, resonator guitar, strings and some nineteenth-century Gaelic poetry set to music.

A press conference to announce the Nominees for the 2010 International Bluegrass Music Awards and this year's inductees into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame will be held Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at the Country Music Hall of Fame, 222 Fifth Avenue South in Nashville.

D'Addario is pleased to announce updates to theLessonroom.com, an education-based website focused on bringing together music teachers and students while providing a wealth of accessible resources that speak to each group.

One of the last projects completed before Baldassari's untimely death, Leavin' Tennessee pairs the late master of the mandolin, Butch Baldassari with longtime guitar picking colleague Van Manakas on an extra-long set of right-in-thegroove bluegrass instrumentals.

Legendary mandolinist and band leader Sam Bush will deliver the keynote address at the International Bluegrass Music Association Business Conference on Monday, September 27, 2010.

The International Bluegrass Museum will host their 5th Annual Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp on September 10-12, 2010 in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Homespun Tapes has announced the publication of two major online (and DVD) lessons from bluegrass and newgrass legend Sam Bush, available through their Instant Access software.

Tim O'Brien's 13th solo recording, Chicken and Egg is a mix of originals and covers will be available on July 13.

The Mandolin Case is a new novel by Dr. Tom Bibey, a physician and bluegrass musician based in North Carolina. In the book, a medical legal mystery is solved by the local bluegrass community.

Hal Leonard Corporation has announced the publication of The Beatles for Mandolin by Bobby Westfall. 25 tunes in notation and tablature with chord diagrams.

The Mandolin Cafe's Forum members have the questions, and mandolin legend Roland White has the answers for another of our extended feature interviews.

Don Stiernberg steps out with guitarist Jeff Jenkins and bassist Rusty Holloway for a marvelous collection of instrumental jazz standards on Swing 220.

Brighton, England, is home to The Acoustic Music Company, owned and operated by Trevor Moyle who has created the ultimate destination outside of the United States for finely crafted U.S. built mandolins.

The Walnut Valley announces their hosting of the National Mandolin Championships in 2010.

Renowned classical virtuoso Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall in a highly anticipated project that has been in the works for some time. Ranges from European classical music to the freewheeling spirit of the new American string band, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela and places undiscovered.

The Mandolin Cafe's Forum members have the questions, and Doyle Lawson has the answers for another of our extended feature interviews with a true legend of bluegrass music.

Gibson Guitar and its philanthropic division the Gibson Foundation, have announced a series of programs to help aid the victims of the recent Nashville floods which devastated the city and surrounding areas.

Roger Siminoff recounts his days working with Gibson during the 1970s and time that saw the birth of the F-5L and Gibson's return to once again building great mandolins.