Tommy Emmanuel and Meng Su are the 2025 headliners, with a dozen concerts scheduled around the URI campus from Oct. 19-26.

In its 10th year, the annual eight-day celebration of guitar, mandolin, and similar instruments returns on Sunday.

More than virtually any other instrument, the mandolin stands for different things depending on time and place. In the 18th century it was the preserve of the wealthy in salons across Europe; by the ...

If the sound of “quartetto romantico” strikes an appealing chord within, then the combined richness of bowl-back mandolins, mandola and classical guitar is sure to please aficionados of string ...

Music tends to be labeled according to genre, oftentimes pigeonholing performers in one area of concentration when in reality they may happen to be versatile musicians with open minds and an ...

The University of Rhode Island Guitar and Mandolin Festival — a week-long event held in collaboration with the Rhode Island Guitar Guild — will kick off with a ...

NO ITALIAN SERENADE WOULD BE complete without one, but the mandolin has otherwise been to classical music what Lillian Gish was to movies: a ubiquitous, wildly popular player long ago, fondly ...

To say Brian Oberlin is smitten with the mandolin is an extreme understatement. The award-winning performer plays baroque, romantic, swing, bluegrass, contemporary, classical, Cajun and folk music, ...

It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when every city in America had at least one and usually several mandolin orchestras. These large ensembles died out after the 1920s, but in recent years they ...

Dennis White has been making up tunes ever since he learned to play the piano at 5 years old, sharing a bench with his mother. He would play many more instruments as he got older, and for many years ...