Special Events

Nashville, Tenn. — Wednesday, August 23, mandolin masters are taking over Music City Roots, the Nashville-based weekly radio show and webcast. Artists will include Mike Compton, Tim O'Brien, Andy Statman, Bobby Osborne, and Casey Campbell, with even more special guests ...

Surprise, Ariz. — The Mandolin Store and Mandolin Cafe have announced a special Pono Octave Mandolin Giveaway coming in early August.

Registration will commence from a link on the Mandolin Cafe home page on August 6 with a single winner randomly selected on August 12, 9:30 a.m. Central. No purchase is necessary to enter and registration is open to all site visitors regardless of location.

The instrument being given away is a Pono M-20SB Octave – Mahogany Sunburst and deluxe hardshell case, ...

The Schertler Group, creators of high performance amplification gear for musicians and the Mandolin Cafe are combining efforts to give away a Schertler DYN-M-P48 Pickup for Mandolin with a retail value of $325.

Registration for a chance to win will commence from a link on the Mandolin ...

A continuation of the Scott Wright video collection entrusted to the Mandolin Cafe for publication, Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys were captured in concert in Boulder, Colorado's Chautauqua Park in June, 1986.

On the bill for the evening, Norman and Nancy Blake also make an appearance as the warm-up act, though only two of their numbers appear in Video 1.
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The date was February 19, 1986. Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys had traveled to Denver, Colorado for a concert in what was the arena for the Denver Nuggets NBA basketball team.

Make no mistake about it, Monroe was in fine form that day as the band kicked off the concert with "Uncle Pen."

This never before published footage was captured by videojournalist Scott Wright as part of the Wright Collection, a series of events surrounding Bill Monroe in February, 1986.

A lifelong bluegrass musician and fan, Wright felt Monroe's appearance in Denver was historically significant and captured and kept the videos until entrusting them to the Mandolin Cafe this year for publication.

The videos include a nice warm-up session in what ...

Surprise, Ariz. — The Mandolin Store in conjunction with the Mandolin Cafe will be giving away an Eastman MD415-GD to one lucky winner in the near future.

Registration for a chance to win will commence from a link on the Mandolin Cafe on May 28 with a single random winner being selected Friday, June 2 at 9:30 a.m. Central Time.

The giveaway is open to all visitors to the Mandolin Cafe regardless of location.

The new Eastman MD415-GD is individually hand-crafted using time-honored methods & premium hand-carved solid tonewoods with solid Spruce Top, solid Mahogany back & sides.

Ebony fingerboard & adjustable ebony bridge. F-style body with an F-holes for warm, ringing tones & excellent sound projection.

The Mandolin Store's Dennis Vance told us, "The Mandolin Store is proud once again to be the #1 dealer of Eastman Mandolins in the world and we wanted to celebrate our relationship with Eastman and the Mandolin Cafe by giving away a model we're excited to offer."
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Nashville, Tenn. — V-PICKS and the Mandolin Cafe are combining efforts to give away sets of their picks with an estimated retail value of $77.00.

Six lucky winners will be chosen at random and receive sets of picks mailed directly ...

Early bird tickets now on sale for the 3rd Annual Oldtone Roots Music Festival

Hillsdale, NY — Early Bird Tickets (save up to $70) are on sale with a deadline of May 7 for The Oldtone Roots Music Festival, September 7-10, 2017, Cool Whisper Farm, 1011 County Rt 21.

"Bringing these ...

Battle Creek, Mich. — GHS Strings and the Mandolin Cafe are set to give away sets of the new GHS Pure Nickel Mandolin Strings to 12 visitors to the Mandolin Cafe.

Registration for the giveaway will commence Monday at noon, Central Time, from a link on the Mandolin ...

21 years ago today we fired up a state of the art 14.4k modem and uploaded version one of the Mandolin Cafe onto the world wide web. For those of you not old enough to remember what a modem is, be thankful. The entire site was less than 100K, far smaller than the page you're reading.

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King of Prussia, Penn. — The 30th Annual CMSA Convention convenes here November 2-6, 2016 at the Valley Forge Radisson Hotel, 1160 First Avenue.

The theme of the 2016 Convention is "Ensemble and Orchestra Performance." This year's featured ensemble is the world-class Modern Mandolin Quartet, as both ...

Ground Breaking for New Bluegrass Music Museum and Hall of Fame set for Thursday June 23 at Noon.

Owensboro, Ky. — Together with the City of Owensboro, Mayor Ron Payne, the Daviess County Fiscal Court and Judge Executive Al Mattingly, the International Bluegrass Music Museum and Hall ...

Kansas City, Mo. — Folk Alliance International Presents Good'le Days, a celebration of the music of John Hartford on May 25 in Prohibition Hall, 1118 McGee St., 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Tickets are $8 in advance or $15 suggested donation at the door.

The evening ...

Scotch Plains, N.J. — Barry Mitterhoff is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 42nd Annual New Jersey Folk Festival.

"I'm honored and excited about getting this Lifetime Achievement Award for playing and teaching bluegrass music in New Jersey ...

Bend, Or. — Weber Fine Acoustic Instruments, known for its high attention to detail and the uniqueness of its instruments, is offering you the chance to win the opportunity to design your own custom instrument.

Just fill ...

It's the mandolin event of the season! Join mandolin virtuoso and ArtistWorks instructor Mike Marshall to talk mandolin on a LIVE Google Hangout this Saturday, December 5 at Noon, Pacific Standard Time (1:00 Mountain, 2:00 p.m. Central, 3:00 p.m. Eastern).
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Surprise, Ariz. — The Mandolin Store has announced they will be giving away $10,000 in mandolins this November as part of a special store promotion.

Each weekend a different mandolin will be given away leading up to their annual Black Friday Sale on November 27.

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Morristown, N.J. — Grammy nominated and IBMA Award winning Bluegrass Band Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen will appear in a special concert fund-raiser for One World Woman's Health and Africa Surgery, Inc., both 501c3 nonprofit organizations whose goals are to provide health ...

Lawrence, Kans. — Perennial favorite Hot Rize returns to Liberty Hall on October 15, 8:00 p.m. when the Mandolin Cafe and Rick Frydman present the legendary bluegrass ensemble in concert with special guest Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
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Lansing, Mich. — Last Summer, Stan Werbin, owner of Elderly Instruments, approached his niece, artist Jennifer Springman, to design and paint a mural on the outside of the Elderly building. He had no idea the excitement it would bring to Lansing.

In the 6 weeks it took to paint the mural, questions like, “What’s going in this building?” and “Is this really part of Elderly?” have been common from passersby.

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