When American Mike Compton brings bluegrass to the Port Fairy Folk Festival today, he will be strumming a locally made mandolin. When Western Districts mandolin maker Steve Gilchrist made his first ...
Who says you can’t change your tune? Chris Thile, who first played the mandolin at age 5 and didn’t learn to read music until a decade later, is touring to promote a project that evokes a genre wholly ...
What constitutes bluegrass music? Does it need to be all acoustic? Can it ever be electric? Does it always include a banjo, a mandolin, a dobro and fiddles? If it ventures into jam band territory, is ...