The David Grisman Quintet performs Friday, June 22 at the Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, located at Bartley Ranch in Reno For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer Grisman has been busy ...

Back when the United States was busy celebrating its 200th birthday, David Grisman introduced a new, quintessentially American sound on the eponymous 1976 album “David Grisman Quintet.” The mandolin ...

Mandolinist David Grisman has spent the past three decades playing what he calls “dawg” music, which is essentially a mix swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. While the line-up of his band 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 ...

Sam Grisman and Peter Rowan revive Dawg music at EKU concert Oct. 17, 2025. Grisman draws on family legacy and Old and in the Way repertoire nightly. Sam Grisman Project shows genre flexibility, ...

"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.

For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating “dawg” music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic ...

Given that “Grateful Dawg” focuses on the collaboration between Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, it’s to be expected that the music is going to be wonderful, and it is. But there is more to this film, ...

Sam Grisman Project will embark on its spring tour next week. The ensemble, which is known for performing choice covers from David “Dawg” Grisman and Jerry Garcia’s individual and intertwined archives ...

“This town is one of the few places that really fought and won the battle against big corporate businesses coming in. There are a lot of beautiful old Victorian buildings and houses here,” adds ...

For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating "dawg" music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic ...

If it's true the Grateful Dead epitomize the counter culture of the Sixties, it's also true the iconic group embraced the following decade on its very own terms, at least at the outset of the period.