Mandolincafe.com is reporting that Adam Steffey and Kym Warner have teamed up as a duo for the Mandolin Sessions in December while their bands are taking a year-end hiatus.

Steffey has been voted Mandolin Player of the Year six times by the International Bluegrass Music Association and is a multiple Grammy winner….

Christies Auction House will be selling the original headstock plate from Bill Monroe’s Lloyd Loar-signed Gibson f5 mandolin to the highest bidder on Dec. 3, 2009.

Former Gibson empoyee Pat Aldworth has listed the item for sale and has made, then co-worker Rendall Wall a partner in the sale. Experts at…

Jesse McReynolds, at 80, remains a special fixture on the bluegrass scene. He’s still doing the Grand Ole Opry gig, traveling the festival circuit and now he’s running a new business, his Pick Inn in Gallatin, Tenn.

The Pick Inn, that’s where this bluegrass war horse celebrated his 80th — surrounded, of course, by family, friends and music….

Grass Valley, Calif. — The Mandolin Cafe is sponsoring an evening concert and series of workshops on June 17 connecting a break between the California Bluegrass Association Music Camp (June 14-17) and Father’s Day Festival (June 18-21).

This is the second year the Mandolin Cafe has partnered with the California association to present this special event.

Tributes are piling up for the late mandolin great Butch Baldassari, who died this past weekend in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital.

Appropriately, those seem to be finding a central location on the Web site, www.mandolincafe.com, which is an Internet hangout for mandolin enthusiasts.

According to a posting there from Lelia Sinclair Baldassari, Butch Baldassari’s widow, a funeral service will be held Saturday in Scranton, Pa., and a memorial service is planned Jan. 31 at the Blakemore United Methodist Church in Nashville….