New Music

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of David Grisman Quartet with Svend Asmussen Live at Fat Tuesday's in a high definition, download format.

Asmussen, from Denmark, was an incredible violinist and one of the true pioneers of string jazz. He made his first recordings with the great ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Live at Club Passim is the title of a new self-releases project from Ethan Setiawan.

About the recording Ethan told us, "In the middle of a pandemic, Matt Smith of Club Passim made available to artists a massive backlog of live recordings from Passim. I stumbled across two shows the year I put out a record and toured it. Listening ...

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Sierra Hull has announced the impending release of an EP from the original 2013 Weighted Mind sessions, a more full band version of the project before it was re-recorded with Bela Fleck producing.

The project is best summed up in this video Sierra shared with her mailing list earlier today!
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Witching Hour

Fable & Fire

Following the highly acclaimed Buried in a Cape, Andrew Marlin is set to release two full-length instrumental projects featuring his original compositions.

Witching Hour and Fable & Fire were created during and partially in response to the pandemic, a time when instrumental compositions freely emerged from Marlin's creative process.

Both albums are currently available for pre-order with Witching Hour being released on most major platforms, streaming and download, on February 5, with Fable & Fire following February 19.
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PORTLAND, OR — Dennis Benjamin and Steve Mullins, two childhood friends take separate musical paths, uniting after years to join together in the recording of the instrumental EP by their group Acoustic Remnant entitled Sliding Ida.

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WASHINGTON D.C. — Tom Wright has announced the release of his new recording for 10-string mandolin entitled 5 x 2.

About the album Wright told us, "It begins with Bach, heads to Brazil for some choro by Hamilton de Holanda and Dudu Maia, touches on Frank Zappa and Igor Stravinsky, ...

The duo of Alexey Alexandrov and Ekaterina Skliar, have announced the release of their holiday themed recording entitled Mandolin Mirth.

Both masters of Russian domra and mandolin, Alexey and Ekaterina came together in 2015 to form a unique mandolin-domra duo that presents a repertoire ...

Slovak mandolinist Jozef Scheiner has announced the release of a new album entitled La Mando, dedicated to mandola. Scheiner presents his own compositions, recorded in the company of musicians from the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic playing an H-5 mandola that was specially crafted for this project by ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc proudly announces the digital only release of new Deluxe Editions of two dawg favorites — David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas and Not For Kids Only by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.

David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas was originally released ...

WUPPERTAL, GERMANY — Celebrating 20 years of recording on their own label Wouldn't Listen label, mandolin and guitar duo Marijke & Michiel Wiesenekker have released a compilation of tracks from past recordings, including select remakes, with the album Wouldn't Listen ...

CARMAGNOLA, ITALY — One Man One Mandolin is the title of a new, truly solo release, from Italy based musician Mario Poletti. On the recording, Poletti plays acoustic and electric mandolins, electric mandola, and adds hand clapping, foot tapping and finger snapping ...

Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and mandolinist Frank Solivan is out with a Christmas classic — "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" — meant to serve as encouragement in what has been a very difficult year for so many reasons.

About the recording, Solivan said, "2020 has ...

After a 10-year recording hiatus upon the release of their critically acclaimed 2010, mandolin-centric group MandoMorphosis returns with a new recording entitled 2020 on Right Brain Records.

About 2020 the group told us, "MandoMorphosis started ten years ago with a question: What would ...

ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND — This Ill Deeds is the debut EP from multi-instrumentalist Calum McIlroy, scheduled for an October 30 release.

Those interested in supporting the project and obtaining a copy benefitting from many other perks surrounding the release ...

MARION, NC — Gabriel Wiseman of The JackTown Ramblers has released his third solo recording, an instrumental collection entitled "Off The Cuff," that contains three original compositions.

A recent guest of David Benedict's Mandolin Mondays, Wiseman's band The JackTown Ramblers feature his fiery mandolin talents on everything from bluegrass to gypsy jazz and swing tunes, often in the same set!

About the new project Wiseman told us, "It's all mandolin instrumentals and ...

ARDEN, NC — Mountain Home Music Company has announced an October 2 release for Mark Stoffel's first solo project in over ten years entitled Coffee & Cake.

Currently holding down mandolin duties for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, Stoffel's debut album for Mountain Home Music Company is a brilliant showcase ...

BERLIN — Deutsche Grammophon has announced a November 6 release for Avi Avital's Art of the Mandolin, his first recording consisting exclusively of pieces originally written for mandolin, his personal take on the best existing repertoire for the instrument, and a showcase presentation of the fullest spectrum of its expressive potential.

While a full track listing won't be revealed until a yet to be announced date in ...

An all-Beatles tribute for solo mandolin in duo-style.


Internationally renowned mandolin virtuoso Evan J. Marshall has announced the release of a 6-song EP tribute to The Beatles entitled All My Strumming, the cover art inspired by the iconic album cover for Meet the Beatles/With the Beatles ...

LOS ANGELES — Michael Lampert has announced the release of a new recording of electric jazz mandolin entitled Panoply on Sojourner Records.

About the new recording Lampert told us, "We are very happy to be releasing this record consisting of all original and unreleased material. The recording features an all-star band including Tom Bethke on guitar, Aaron Kohen on bass and Thomas White on drums. We hope that it provides some peace and beauty during these difficult and dangerous times!"
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SAN DIEGO — Long Story Short has announced a July 31 release of their self-titled debut album of chamber-folk music.

Renowned instrumentalists Ashley Hoyer (formerly Ashley Broder, on mandolin, electric mandolin, fiddle), Ben Schreiber (fiddle), and Aria DiSalvio (cello, ...

First listen to the blockbuster track "Open Water," from Fiddler's Pastime, featuring Sierra Hull.


NASHVILLE — Bronwyn Keith-Hynes has announced a September 4 release date for her debut solo album entitled Fiddler's Pastime, a project that establishes the young fiddler as one of the most exciting bluegrass musicians of her generation. This powerful collection of original fiddle tunes and traditional songs features world renowned guest artists Sierra Hull, Tim O'Brien, Sarah Jarosz, Chris Eldridge, Laura Orshaw and James Kee.
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CINCINNATI — Mark Daly has announced the release of his new instrumental album of all original tunes entitled STORIES From Here and Away, featuring fourteen compositions that range from bluegrass, acoustic, Irish, jam-band, Latin, to roots and more.

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Skokie, Ill. — Don Stiernberg and the Don Stiernberg Quartet announce the release of their new recording entitled Straight Ahead. The band includes Stiernberg on mandolin, Andy Brown on guitar, Jim Cox on bass and Phil Gratteau on drums.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Mandolin and violin duo Scroggins & Rose have announced a June 26 release for Curios, the second album from the instrumental duo.

Building on the foundation laid by roots music innovators such as Béla Fleck, David Grisman, Mike Marshall, and Darol Anger, Curios explores the full sonic range of possibilities for mandolin and violin. Tristan Scroggins and Alisa Rose create an inviting musical atmosphere with their thoughtful, conversational arrangements and dynamic and emotional range.

Scroggins, a mandolinist and second generation bluegrass virtuoso, and Rose, a Grammy-nominated violinist, create creative ...