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 ...

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

This set features two eclectic Californians, mandolinist David Grisman and pianist Denny Zeitlin, in a lively and unusual duo setting. The contrast between mandolin and piano couldn’t be greater, of ...

He recently moved his recording studio from Mill Valley to Petaluma, but David Grisman can do without other kinds of walls in his music. "I think categories are way too general," he maintains, "and ...

From Old and in the Way to NPR’s Car Talk, from the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty to his collaborations with mandolinist-clarinetist Andy Statman, David Grisman and his mandolin have seemed like old ...

It seemed like an obvious question. Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship are teaming up with David Grisman for the Jefferson-Grisman Project, kicking off a nationwide tour Saturday night at Hopmonk ...

It’s always a mystery why a person responds to one kind of music more than another. Often it’s a result of the time and place that someone went through during their teens and 20s, but some people just ...

Mandolin master David Grisman didn’t show off many Independence Day Eve pyrotechnics at the Iron Horse in Northampton, Mass. Sunday night. Instead, his new Folk Jazz Trio regaled the enthusiastic SRO ...

The appreciation I have for David Grisman’s music is pretty involved, even though it started, like most people’s, during my jam band phase. Unlike the other musicians that I left behind (along with my ...

If you’re a fan of the mandolin, the Napa music scene has been treating you well. Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile lit up the Lincoln Theater last month with his mastery, including an exquisite unamplified ...

The current David Grisman Quintet bears only a passing resemblance to its all-strings original line-up, with flute and drums in place of fiddle and second mandolin.Grisman has also focused his gaze ...