August 1, 2006 See a performance by the Blue Man Group and you’ll be inspired by the innovation and originality of the group, its music, its comedy and, of course, its non-traditional instruments. In ...

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LEWIS – Bobby Wintringham, the sole, steady and unassuming hand behind San Juan Mandolins, prefers to be in the background. He’s putting the finishing touches on instrument No. 84, a guitar-shaped ...

Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin at a barber shop in Florida in the 1940s. But Jerry Ashley, ...