He’s known across the state and the country as one of the premiere mandolin players, and it all started unexpectedly right out of high school when a friend introduced him. “He handed me a mandolin, he ...

In Nashville, Banjo Ben Clark had his busiest year ever even with no live music events. "I was really glad to see a lot of my friends enter into the instruction side of things," Clark said. In the ...

Performing, writing and teaching jazz mandolin for nearly five decades, Don Stiernberg said he owes much of his success to his brother, John Stiernberg, and his teacher, Jethro Burns. Don Stiernberg, ...

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