"I never wanted to have a record company," says David Grisman, the Northern California mandolinist extraordinaire and pioneer of the instrumental bluegrass/folk/jazz blend known as new acoustic music.

Tony Rice's 1977 self-titled album arrived at a pivotal moment in bluegrass. Fresh from his time with J.D. Crowe & The New ...

Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during ...

David Grisman David Grisman has announced the arrival of his new website, www.acousticoasis.com, featuring new and previously unreleased projects that are now available as high-quality digital ...

Mike Marshall (left) and David Grisman at UC Santa Cruz Brazil’s Danilo Brito (left) with David Grisman at the 2009 UCSC Mandolin Symposium ...

What: David Grisman Bluegrass Experience; Jeff Austin Band and Caribou Mountain Collective will also perform. When: Saturday, Sept. 12. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Where: State Bridge ...

Esteemed guitarist TOMMY EMMANUEL joins forces with celebrated bluegrass mandolinist DAVID GRISMAN for a new collaborative album entitled PICKIN'-available in stores and at all digital retailers on ...

For close to 50 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been one of America's leading proponents of acoustic music in America. In that time, he's recorded dozens of albums of his own music, ...

David Grisman calls his music “Dawg” music which happens to be his nickname of 35 years — back then he looked like a shaggy dog apparently — and just as good a label as any. Grisman, 63, the mandolin ...

“There was nothing like that, a mandolin player … leading a band just didn’t exist. So, it turned out to be my niche.”— David Grisman For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has ...

David Grisman calls it a “confluence of events” that dragged him into the recording business in 1989. Grisman, who had led the accomplished, influential David Grisman Quintet since the mid-’70s, was ...