New Music

WUPPERTAL, GERMANY — Mike Marshall has announced the release of Mike Marshall Mandocello Solo Bach Cello Suite #4 in Eb BWV 1010, available for purchase from the artist on Bandcamp.

This is the fourth in the series of recordings aimed at performing ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of David Grisman Dawg Works Volume 6.

This sixth volume of the collected original compositions of David "Dawg" Grisman is comprised of works written between 2006 and 2018, compiled chronologically in the order in which ...

MONTREAL — Jonathan Bélanger has announced a September 7 release for his new recording Sur le Boulevard.

On the project, Bélanger has teamed up with talented classical guitarist and co-producer Denis Ferland from Montreal. All the arrangements are original and the duo introduces us ...

The Appalachian Mandolin Trio has announced an August 21 release of their first original album, Blast Off... On the recording, the Trio, along with 10-year old, Owen Parker, play all original instrumentals.

This project features all "new acoustic" originals. It is a dense representation of the trio's love for the mandolin ...

BERLIN — Deutsche Grammophon has announced the release of Avi Avital's Vivaldi Concerto for 4 Mandolins, Concerto in B Minor, RV 580 (Adapt. for 4 Mandolins, Strings and Continuo).

Working with Il Giardino Armonico and conductor ...

Mike Marshall has announced the release of a new recording featuring Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, Todd Phillips: Live November 30th 2001, the band taking the moniker Ook'n'm.

About the group and the recording, Marshall told us, "'My first experience ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the digital release of Slapback, recorded in Dawg Studios in 2007.

Slapback Deluxe Edition is an expanded version of the multi-generational musical portrait of contemporary mandolin virtuoso Josh Pinkham and his grandfather, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tom Wright and The Tom Wright Trio have announced the release of their new recording Glad All Over.

About the project Wright told us, "This collection of tunes reflects my influences. Three covers of tunes I played with the 70s band Grits, a Beatles ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the digital release of David Grisman's New Smokey Grass Boys.

About the recordings, Grisman states in the liner notes, "These recordings recently surfaced in a box marked simply New Smokey Grass Boys, a name similar to the one ...

The story of the music that appears at the end of this page starts circa 1966. A young Chicago based banjo player named Richard (Rick) Riman ventured with tape recorder in hand to Knoxville, Tenn. with a mission: to gather a collection of music played by Red Rector.

That collection recently surfaced at Mandolin Cafe headquarters as part ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Jack Dwyer has announced the release of his new recording entitled Rondos Vol. I, the first installment in an original collection of fiddle tunes. Each volume features 15 tunes with demonstration recordings and complete musical notation. Volume I features Jack performing on mandolin with guitar accompaniment. ...

PITTSBURGH, PENN. — Bryce Rabideau has announced a May 19 release on Misra Records for his new album of original material entitled Meanwhile, available for pre-order on Bandcamp.

About his new release Rabideau told us, "Meanwhile is a ten song exploration of the relationship between two titans ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of We Love Django! in download format only.

This unique celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt features 16 of his original compositions interpreted by a variety of stellar artists including his partner ...

İZMIR, TURKEY — Bulent Yazici has announced the release of his new recording, Emanuele Barbella (1718 - 1777), 6 Duets for Mandolin, now available on many prominent streaming platforms.

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NEW YORK, NY — Adhyâropa Records has announced a Friday, March 31 release of the brilliant new Ethan Setiawan recording, Gambit. Joined by fellow acoustic music greats Tony Trischka, Sam Leslie, Darol Anger, Ethan Jodziewicz, and fellow mandolinists Mike Marshall and Joe Walsh. Gambit is available as digital download, CD, or vinyl ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of David Grisman's Dawg Works Volume 5.

This fifth volume of the collected original compositions of David "Dawg" Grisman is comprised of works written between 2000 and 2006, compiled chronologically in the order in which ...

İZMIR, TURKEY — Bulent Yazici and Ender Bilge have announced the release of their new recording, Munier & Calace: Works for Two Mandolins, Mandola and Guitar, now available on most prominent streaming platforms.

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The long anticipated Simon Mayor recording Carolan, Fantasias on Themes by Turlough O'Carolan is being officially released today.

About the music on the album, Mayor wrote in his liner notes "I remember well the first time I heard the music of the Irish harper and composer Turlough O'Carolan ...

France based mandolinists Bernard Minari and Daniel Portalès have announced the release of their second album entitled Mando Duo Volume 2, an album of 12 original compositions available for purchase from the artists on Bandcamp.

On the album the duo uses mandocello, ...

BOSTON, MASS. — Brazilian mandolinist Ian Coury has announced the availability of his new recording project entitled Bora Brazil, available for streaming on Spotify (subscription required). Containing nine compositions with a brilliant ensemble backing him, Coury delivers an encore performance that shows why he is considered one of the finest mandolinists on today's scene.

Already a seasoned performer with awards too numerous to list, he teaches his Brazilian Choro Mandolin course online at Peghead Nation. Originally from Brasil's capital city of Brasília, where he began playing mandolin at age eight, in 2019 Ian received a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where, in his second year, he received the String Department Award.

On the recording Ian is joined by Felipe Viegas, Juninho Alvarenga, Pedro ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of Eastern Grass in download format by Radim Zenkl, master musician from the Czech Republic, returning this time to Acoustic Disc with his fellow countryman Ondra Kozák.

Both artists are multi-instrumentalists ...

PORTLAND, MAINE — Ethan Setiawan has announced a March 31 release date for his new album of all original music entitled Gambit, being released on Adhyâropa Records.

About the new recording Ethan told us, "Gambit is a collection of my tunes with a group of friends and heroes I was lucky to ...

BOSTON — East Coast acoustic and electric mandolin mainstay Jimmy Ryan returns with a new project from his band The Nocturnal Adoration Society entitled All The Time in The World.

About the recording, Ryan told us, "We recorded the entire record remotely. ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of David Grisman Dawg Works Volume 4.

This fourth volume of the collected original compositions of David "Dawg" Grisman is comprised of works written between 1991 and 1999, compiled chronologically in the order in which ...