Last year, The String got a new opening theme tune. “Vera” comes from New York based mandolin virtuoso, composer and band ...

In March of 2025, at the annual Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was one of hundreds of festival-goers entranced by a group of up-and-coming musicians exploring a storied American ...

Yonder Mountain String Band has never been a group built around rigid onstage or offstage plans. Despite that fact, their ...

The lead single off of Yonder Mountain String Band's upcoming album, Nowhere Next, dances between two emotional poles. “Am I growing or failing?” asks one refrain of the song, Here I Go, featuring ...

Fans will have the rare opportunity to see the Mummers strut their stuff in person at Lincoln Financial Field next week.

Four UNG students, along with Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis, professor of music history, attended the fourth annual String Band Summit, where they presented a workshop and papers. Morgan-Ellis said students ...

Lone Piñon, a four-piece acoustic ensemble from Northern New Mexico, will bring their once forgotten style of Northern New Mexico stringband music to Club Passim on July 28. Lone Piñon's music ...

When Nick Piccininni got the call in 2020 from Yonder Mountain String Band to sub in for some shows in place of mandolin player Jacob Jolliff, he wasn’t expecting it to be a big deal. “At the time, I ...