WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - James Bernabe’s nondescript backyard workshop is a hideaway of sorts. While jazz plays on a tabletop boombox, Bernabe painstakingly transforms slabs of spruce and maple into ...

Don MacRostie plays one of the Red Diamond mandolins he made last year. He hand crafted the instrument in his workshop in Athens County. The walls in Don MacRostie’s studio in Athens County are ...

BAY VIEW — Like many hobbies, Dennis O’Hern’s started modestly. He started playing the mandolin as a teen, and in 1983 he bought a mandolin-making kit and assembled it. “I thought, well, I could make ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — James Bernabe’s ...

Music tends to be labeled according to genre, oftentimes pigeonholing performers in one area of concentration when in reality they may happen to be versatile musicians with open minds and an ...

How do you beat the January doldrums? Staff at the Rogers Historical Museum thought a little music might help -- and wouldn't it be even better if young patrons made the musical instruments? "This is ...

Another day, another brilliant manifestation of Skyrim’s epic appeal. Last time it was a Monopoly-set, now it’s something more creative. This wicked mandolin surfaced over at Etsy last month and has ...

This article was originally published on May 3, 2024. The walls in Don MacRostie’s studio in Athens County are covered in tools. Screwdrivers and scissors hang above tin cans full of markers and ...