But he vividly remembers the Italian captain who marched into town with a mandolin on his back — and played beautiful music during wartime discord and suffering.

I started out primarily as a bluegrass mandolin player, an endeavor for which Olympian levels of flatpicking are often required to perform the melodies and solos you will hear from great mandolin ...

Q: My cousin thoughtfully passed along this family mandolin owned and played by our grandfather from the time he was 10 years old. It measures 67 cm in length (26.5 inches). The label inside says ...

That changed when he was 12, however, when he asked his grandfather to show him a few chords on the mandolin. “He always played music and I asked him to show me some stuff,” Young said.

THE musical director of the Queensland Mandolin Ensemble, Joel Woods will begin his debut solo tour of Queensland celebrating the music of the classical guitar and mandolin.