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 ...

Songs We Love is a series and a podcast that looks at the stories behind some of the songs we're playing on our new music discovery stream, WUNC Music. For this episode, Eric Hodge sits down with ...

Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz made everything seem so easy, pulling a few acoustic instruments out of their car and, in no time, huddling around a single microphone behind the Tiny Desk. With that, ...

Acclaimed musicians Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz had rarely been as still as they were over the last 12 months. Like many artists, the folk duo, formerly known as Mandolin Orange, took a long hard ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum will start its fall group music lessons on Nov. 4. And by the time the lessons end of Dec. 16, students will be ready to perform Christmas songs at local ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum will begin its fourth semester of 2025 group lessons on November 4, offering weekly ...

Like just about everyone else in wide swaths of the United States, folk duo Mandolin Orange has a certain appreciation for spring that underpins the North Carolina pair’s new song “Little Worlds.” The ...