Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

Avi Avital plays the mandolin sitting center stage in a hard-back chair. He curls into himself, his face turned downward, and nestles the small stringed instrument on his lap. His intense ...

Strange arrangements: Mulhearn brings unexpected sounds to genres from hardcore to stately rock to fuzzy drone. Photo by Erika Taylor According to the production credits, “26 Minutes” was created ...

If you were to travel to the Andes mountains of South America, you might encounter a small string instrument called a charango. At first glance, it looks a bit like a mandolin or ukulele with ten ...

Wherever "Chaplain Ann" Bergstrom strolls, heads pop up and smiles break out. Nice as she is, the warm welcome is aimed mostly at the small, rounded stringed instrument she's plucking. The reverie ...

Writing the music for “Rabbit Hole” should have been difficult. The movie — a wrenching adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play starring Nicole Kidman — details the struggles ...

Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham Cockerham’s fretless banjo is also in the collection of the National Museum of American History In an on-going series, ATM will bring you the occasional post from a ...

Like thousands of others fleeing to Sudan from the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, 20-year-old Girum left his ...

There are some that enjoy the human element of a musical performance, delighting in the unique way an artist teases the desired sound from their instruments. Then there are those of us who listen to ...