This Sunday we're publishing an important interview with Compass Records founder Alison Brown and bluegrass music legend Bobby Osborne. The subject is a sore one with many musicians, but its certainly not anything we don't already know. The latest topic? More of the same, where the music industry continues to squeeze the profits out of working musicians, a process that began when the first music was sold how ever many hundreds of years ago. Online streaming has literally ripped the ...
The top news of the year in the mandolin world undoubtedly is the story of Chris Thile who has taken the reins of A Prairie Home Companion. Congratulations, Chris! The Mandolin Cafe's Year in Review, news of note that occurred within the site and outside of our little world. January Sierra Hull is seemingly everywhere this month in the ears and on the minds of music listeners as she leaves ...
Updated Dec-18-2016 at 7:40pm by Mandolin Cafe
Effectively immediately we're taking additional steps to protect users of our Classifieds. While we will continue to list the phone field during the submission process it will be hidden by default. On occasions, though very rare, we need to contact party that placed an ad, and for that reason we will allow the field to be filled but it will be hidden by default. We still strongly encourage you to make human, phone contact with people you are dealing with. However, we are going to ...
Updated Jul-28-2016 at 2:45pm by Mandolin Cafe
Reposting here to get the word out that ArtistWorks has announced today of an increase in rates effective August 18!