EPISODE · Jul 7, 2025 · 11 MIN
Longtime local mandolin supergroup readies first album
from Crosscurrents · host KALW
Mandolin orchestras were everywhere during the early 20th Century. It turns out that the Bay Area is the birthplace of a mandolin super-group founded by a man who doesn’t even play the instrument. He wanted to honor the memory of a Jewish mandolin ensemble whose members perished in the Holocaust.
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