The mandolin is a beautiful, strange, difficult instrument, tuned like a violin but with a flat, fretted fingerboard and eight strings instead of four. Played with a plectrum, it is capable of ...

Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin first met through mutual friends at a bluegrass jam in 2009. A "mysterious warmth," as Frantz likes to call it, materialized between the two, and they formed Mandolin ...