New Music

Phoenix area based mandolinist Billy Parker has announced the release of his new recording of mostly original instrumentals entitled Mandoclectic.

13 tracks in all, the disc is a unique and exciting collection of original mandolin pieces spanning genres from old-timey ...

Athens, Greece — Athenian Mandolinata "Nikolaos Lavdas" has announced the release of double CD entitled Greek Rhapsody (Rapsodia Ellenica) in collaboration with Orchestra di mandolini e chitarre "Citta di Brescia," under the baton of Italian composer and conductor Claudio Mandonico.

The CD is a tribute to historical Athenian Mandolinata and its conductor ...

Portland, Or. — Tim Connell has announced the release of MandAlone, 10 New Arrangements for Solo Mandolin.

Coinciding with the release of the recording is a companion book of transcriptions set in standard notation and tablature, all carefully transcribed by Connell.

After years of collaboration with the likes of guitarist Eric Skye and with his own Latin and gypsy-jazz ensembles, Tim's debut solo album is literally ...

Hats Off is the title of a new mandolin & upright bass duo album coming out May 5 from Los Angeles based mandolinist Alex Heflin and bassist Mike Gurrola.

About the album Alex told us, "As a jazz musician, I have always been especially fascinated by duo and trio groups, as the amount of freedom each musician has increases as the group gets smaller. This record is certainly an exploration of that dynamic ...

Mandolinist Avi Avital and bassist Omer Avital join forces for new album Avital Meets Avital released on Deutsche Grammophon June 2.

New York, NY — Two superb musicians of international stature — classically trained mandolin player Avi Avital and jazz bassist Omer Avital — ...

San Francisco, Calif. — Award winning instrumentalists and composers Tristan Scroggins and Alisa Rose have announced that the release of their debut album entitled GRANA for May 23.

The album features 14 tracks of live acoustic mandolin and violin duets with six original tunes and seven improvisations.

The idea for a largely improvisational album came after the two met while teaching at a bluegrass camp in British Columbia. ...

Jenni Lyn Gardner, an original member of the Grammy nominated super group Della Mae has announced the release of Burn Another Candle, her first solo recording.

Jenni Lyn is featured on lead vocals and mandolin with support from Kyle Tuttle (banjo, ...

Arden, N.C. — Two masters bring their next installment of the music that helped make them legends. Doyle Lawson and Paul Williams present Chapter 3. It's the style they first learned together as members of Jimmy Martin's influential band years ago before labels were differentiating Country, ...

Alan Epstein, a contributing writer to the now defunct Mandolin Magazine and founder of the the modern-day Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra has announced the release of an album of mandolin favorites entitled Sunset On Meriden Hill, with support from guitarist Jim Prendergast. ...

Nashville, Tenn. — Bringing together 11 legends of bluegrass mandolin for live duet recordings with one of bluegrass music's rising stars, Mandolin Duets: Volume One marks a milestone in the preservation and appreciation of the instrument's key innovators.

Conceived and produced by mandolinist Casey Campbell, whose bluegrass ...

Milan, Italy — Fabio Paxia has announced the release of an EP of original music for octave mandolin entitled The Coffee I've Never Had.

His debut album, played with octave mandolin, took inspiration from years of experience as a guitar player.

"I've been playing guitar for a long time," Paxia told us, "but when I first heard the sound of the octave mandolin, ...

The Gibson Brothers have announced the release of their newest project entitled In The Ground.

Their brand of bluegrass is a visceral mix of heritage and soaring harmony, making them the premiere brother duet of the genre, following in the footsteps of legendary brother ...

Tim May and Steve Smith have announced they are preparing to tour in support of their new guitar and mandolin duet entitled Murder of Crows, a collection of seven originals and two covers including the Osborne Brothers' "Listening to the Rain," and the jazz standard "Someday My Prince Will Come," in duo and trio settings with bassist Anne Luna and Erik Unsworth, and guest vocalist Chris Sanders.

These selections range from intimate and personal to hard core bluegrass and reflect the unique voice these two musicians have developed in performance ...

David Mansfield has announced the release of Solo Mandolin - David Mansfield Performs Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead.

About the new project, David told us, "'Workingman's Dead' was released when I was a teenager and was one of my first exposures to country and folk music. I ...

Monterey, Tenn. — Andrew Buckner a mandolinist/guitarist from middle Tennessee who performs and records in the Nashville area has announced the release of his EP Coffee and a Good Book.

About the project Buckner said, "Coffee and a Good Book was born out of the desire to record a great mandolin, ...

Philadelphia, Penn. — The Philadelphia Mandolin Ensemble is proud to announce the release of a new recording entitled Global Mandolization, their first after ten years of playing together.

About the recording PME's Mark Linkins told us, "Our intent with this ...

Nashville, Tenn. — It's been 43 years in the making, but finally, a complete recording of The New Kentucky Colonels' Live In Sweden 1973 is available. Captured in two successive nights at the Mosebacke Club in Stockholm, the 26-song CD showcases brothers Roland, Clarence and ...

Charleston, W.Va. — Johnny Staats and Robert Shafer have announced the self-published release of their new CD, Music From the Mountains.

Long-time mandolin favorite Staats vaulted to national fame in 2000 when his status as a world class musician that happened to drive a ...

Evan J. Marshall has announced the release of a new original composition single, Beethoven County, featuring a small mandolin ensemble sound from "Estudiantina de San Gabriel," Marshall playing all the parts, one at a time, in ...

Virtuoso mandolin meets spectacular tuba on the just released and aptly named Not Your Usual Mandolin and Tuba Duo.

Original tunes, American folk, traditional Irish and more take the listener on an unexpected journey. Ports of call include powerful jams, jazz ballads, tender ...

Brittany Haas, Owen Marshall, Joe K. Walsh have announced the release of their self-titled EP Haas, Marshall, Walsh, six spectacular, acoustic tracks that reflect a melding of American old-time with Irish traditional music.

"Brittany and Owen are known as masters of old-time ...

Arden, N.C. — Mountain Home Music Company has announced a September 23 release for Adam Steffey's latest solo recording Here To Stay.

On the project, Steffey re-records versions of some of his best known songs and solos from his ...

Rockville Md. — Bluegrass mandolin stalwart Travers Chandler has released his latest solo recording, Archaic, on Patuxent Music.

Chandler, solidly rooted in traditional bluegrass has led a complicated life that is reflected in his choice of songs and the emotional delivery of music he was literally born to play as evidenced in part of his biography from Patuxent Music: ...

Evan J. Marshall has announced the release of his new EP, Mandolin Mystery Tour, six Beatles tunes arranged for solo mandolin.

"The stylized serenade based on a popular song may well be the most time-honored use of a mandolin by a solo performer," ...