Mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis pairs with Marty Stuart for the new music video "Blue Smoke." - Credit: Laci Mack* Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the ...

Sierra Hull Sierra Hull, six-time Bluegrass Music Association Mandolin Player of the Year, will perform 7:30 p.m. Thursday, ...

From Old and in the Way to NPR’s Car Talk, from the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty to his collaborations with mandolinist-clarinetist Andy Statman, David Grisman and his mandolin have seemed like old ...

As an adolescent growing up in the northern California town of Ukiah, in the mid-’60s, John Reischman played guitar. He gravitated not toward the psychedelic rock that ruled San Francisco, 100 miles ...

It’s been a busy year for Sierra Hull who has spent much of it criss-crossing the country on tour. Now, with 2025 drawing to a close, she’s finally been able to catch her breath and look back at some ...

Wyatt Ellis no longer gawks at the letterpress posters on venue walls harkening the arrival of a century of bluegrass maestros to the stages the 14-year-old mandolin prodigy plays. While seated at one ...

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 ...

It's been 60 years since Ricky Skaggs started playing his mandolin, and nearly a half-century since the bluegrass iconoclast performed his first show. Much like a professional athlete who has competed ...

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, ...