New Music

Norton, Va. — Thomas Cassell has announced the release of his first recording of mandolin music, an EP entitled Mellifluous.

Cassell, based in Norton, Virginia, is a young and upcoming mandolinist with a bright future as evidenced by his selection to attend Mike Marshall's ...

Toronto, Canada — The Andrew Collins Trio has announced the release of their new recording And It Was Good.

The Trio is comprised of Andrew Collins on mandolin family instruments, guitarist Mike Mezzatesta and bassist James McEleney. The instrumentation (mandolin, mandocello, fiddle, guitar, bass, mandola) is augmented by a string quartet to add necessary shading and color to each track.

The title, ...

Portland, Or. — Instrumentalists extraordinaire Tim Connell and Eric Skye have announced the release of June Apple, a collection of traditional fiddles on mandolin and guitar on Half-Diminished Records.

About the project, Eric had this to share with the Mandolin ...

Italy — The Accademia Mandolinistica Pugliese has announced the release of Charles Avison. Concerti Grossi After Scarlatti. A distinguished English composer during the mid-1700s, the Concerti Grossi After Scarlatti was Avison's most enduring work.

Concerto grosso No. 1 in A major
1. I Adagio
2. II Allegro
3. III Amoroso
4. IV Allegro
Concerto grosso No. 2 in G major
5. I Largo ...

Nashville, Tenn. — Seven years since the release of Circles Around Me, his last studio release, Sam Bush is set to release Storyman on Sugar Hill Records on June 24.

Storyman consists of 11 original Sam Bush compositions, ...

First generation bluegrass mandolin legend Frank Wakefield and guitarist Leon Morris have announced their first joint recording since the 1960s for the two, a project made up of mostly original songs.

The album has been released on Patuxent ...

Classical mandolinist Julien Martineau has announced a May 13 release of his newest project entitled Paradis Latin.

The project is the result of a mix of early Hollywood movie influence that finds itself expressed in the wide variety of selections ranging from Italian to South American and more that Martineau describe as "...blurring the boundaries between scholarly and popular music."
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Evanston, Ill. — Perennial jazz mandolin favorite Don Stiernberg is back with a spectacular new release that includes jazz standards and original compositions, entitled Good Numbers.

On the collection Stiernberg is backed up by two of Chicago's ...

The Carlo Aonzo Trio has announced the release of A Mandolin Journey, a brilliant, bold and adventurous new recording in which Aonzo and fellow band-mates take on a broad range of material that includes not only the music of their Italian roots, but also American and European ethnic and jazz compositions ...

San Rafael, Calif. — Award-winning mandolinist and music producer David Grisman has announced the release of The David Grisman Sextet, the first collection of Grisman originals in a decade.


In 1976 the newly-formed David Grisman Quintet recorded their first album of Dawg Music, a recording that was ground-breaking and ultimately led a revolution of new adventurous acoustic music.

Fans of the original David Grisman Quintet recording (shown below) will instantly recognize the similarity between the new album art and the original recording, ...

Joyful acoustic music with a good groove, popular songs of the 20th century from Nordic Countries with a fresh attitude, rhythm patterns based on Brazilian choro and samba.


Zebo Records has announced the release of the second album from the Finnish-Brazilian group Nordic Choro, entitled Nordic Choro II.

Nordic Choro was founded in 2008 and released their debut album in 2010. The group is currently concentrating on Nordic classics by arranging ...

Detmold, Germany — Duo Acquavella presents their new release, along with the Bach Collegium San Diego, on Centaur Records, titled Gimo-Samling: 18th Century Sonatas and Triosonatas for Mandolin.
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Acoustic Disc has announced the release of a two-disc collection entitled Del & Dawg - Live!, available exclusively from Acoustic Disc.

Captured live in concert, the recording is available to listeners in hi-definition as a download.

Del McCoury and David Grisman met at the first ...

Danny and Jack were paired together through the VA Folklife Alliance, and after Jack interned with Danny for about 9 months they decided to produce a mandolin duet album with songs that range from bluegrass to old time, to gypsy jazz and swing, to polka to funk, and all the way to a tribute to ...

After a year of tours, awards, and acclaim for Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, bandleader Frank Solivan keeps the pace with a new solo release, Family, Friends & Heroes, available March 4 on Compass Records.

Austin, Texas — Grammy nominee Frank Solivan's ...

New Christmas music has just been released by the Kujacoustic, a duo consisting of Italian mandolin master Massimo Gatti with Michele Pucci on guitar, available for purchase through amazon.com and iTunes.

Italian based mandolinist Massimo Gatti and guitarist ...

Nashville, Tenn. — Compass Records has announced a January 22 release for the Matt Flinner Trio recording Traveling Roots, a collection of original material written for the trio's "music du jour" shows where the band plays compositions they penned that day specifically for their evening performance.

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Long-time California bluegrass mandolin man Butch Waller has released a six-song recording of original waltzes entitled Waltz Collection.

A mainstay in the California bluegrass scene since the late 1960s, Waller is known for his ...

The Punch Brothers have announced a November 20 release for their new EP entitled The Wireless.

Tracks on the recording will be familiar to those that have attended Punch Brothers live shows and includes cuts the band was unable to include on The Phosphorescent Blues, recorded during sessions for the band's T Bone Burnett–produced album.

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Canadian Spencer Capier has announced the release of his third solo recording, entitled Musical Chairs, a collection of new traditional fiddle tunes, old hymns with new twists, and ...

Rhonda Vincent has announced the pending release of a new recording of Christmas songs aptly entitled Christmas Time.

The recording, which is so new it doesn't yet have ...

Larkspur, Calif. — Marla Fibish and Bruce Victor, as Noctambule, have announced the release of have announced the release of The Waking, a new recording featuring vocals, mandolin, mandola, Greek bouzouki, accordion, cittern, tenor guitar and 6, 10, and 12-string guitars.

Special guests Aryeh Frankfurter, Athena Tergis, Nuala Kennedy, Jeri Jones & Tom Neylan lend their talents on whistles, flutes, violin, viola and cello.

The album title The Waking comes from the Theodore Roethke poem of the same name set to music. The rest of the recording includes a few ...