Mike Marshall is a mandolin player and has been an instrumental part of new acoustic music for the past 25 years. He has performed and recording with many musicians in a variety of styles, including bluegrass, classical, jazz and Brazilian music. In addition to several instruments in the mandolin family, Marshall also plays the guitar and violin. The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... Bluegrass has three principal meanings, the second two both deriving from the first listed. ... Classical musicis a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to musicproduced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Europeanart, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Strong influences on the music of Brazil come from Africa, India, Portugal and the natives of the Amazon rainforest and of other parts of the country. ... The acoustic archtop guitar, used in Jazz music, features steel strings. ... Violin The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ...

Marshall has recorded and toured with other contemporary acoustic musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Stéphane Grappelli, Darol Anger and Jerry Douglas. His two recordings on the Sony Classical label: Uncommon Ritual with banjo innovator Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer; and Short Trip Home with violinist Joshua Bell, mandolinist Sam Bush and Meyer were both on the Billboard Classical Music charts. David Grisman David Grisman (born 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is a noted bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. ... Tony Rice Tony Rice (born June 8, 1951 in Danville, Virginia) is an influential bluegrass guitarist. ... Mark OConnor (born August 5, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is widely considered to be the most prominent fiddler of his generation. ... Django (left) & Grappelli (right). ... Violinist extrodinare, Darol Anger has played in dozens of groups since he first rose to fame playing second fiddle to David Grisman in The David Grisman Quintets 1977 debut. ... Jerry Douglas is an actor, who has been on The Young and the Restless for 25 years. ... Uncommon Ritual is the second album released by Sony Classical of string trios, following Appalachia Waltz, with unusual instramentation and influences from bluegrass and folk music to create an Americana-style of traditional classical music. ... Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American banjo player. ... Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist. ... Short Trip Home is an album of classical chamber music by a quartet unusual both for its membership and its instrumentation. ... Joshua Bell Joshua Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist. ... Sam Bush Sam Bush (b. ... Billboard can refer to: Billboard magazine Billboard (advertising) Billboard antenna In 3D computer graphics, to billboard is to rotate an object so that it faces the viewer. ...

Marshall and his long time partner, Darol Anger, have released 6 albums as a duo on Compass and Windham Hill Records. Together they have also recorded with their experimental bluegrass group Psychograss with guitarist David Grier, banjo player Tony Trischka and bassist Todd Phillips. Compass Records is a Nashville-based independent record label founded in 1995 by Garry West and Alison Brown. ... Windham Hill Records is a record company, founded in the 1976 by guitarist and carpenter William Ackerman and wife Anne Robinson (They have since divorced). ... Some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article [[{{{1}}}]] may not be sufficiently well-known to merit articles of their own. ... Tony Trischka is one of the most innovative banjoists alive. ... Todd Phillips was born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Marshall's interest in classical music goes back to 1986 when he founded Modern Mandolin Quartet, a string quartet of mandolin family instruments. The group released four recordings for Windham Hill Records that redefined the mandolin in a classical-music setting. In 1995, the Quartet made its Carnegie Hall debut. Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Manhattan, New York City. ...

Mike has also been collaborating with Chris Thile from the group Nickel Creek. Their CD Into the Cauldron was released in 2003 on Sugar Hill Records and was listed in the top ten of Amazon.com’s favorite recordings for 2003. The two have set a new standard for contemporary mandolin playing today. Chris Thile (born February 21, 1981) is a renowned mandolin player and founding member of the progressive bluegrass trio Nickel Creek with Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins. ... Nickel Creek at a live performance Nickel Creek is an American acoustic trio with roots in bluegrass, comprised of members Chris Thile (mandolin), Sara Watkins (fiddle), and her brother Sean Watkins (guitar). ... Sugar Hill Records is the name given to two different record labels. ... (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon. ...

In addition to touring and recording regularly, Mike is also a partner in a new music label Adventure Music which is dedicated to releasing music from Brazil as well as Mike’s own projects.

His latest releases include The Music of Hermeto Pascoal, a duet recording with pianist Jovino Santos Neto Serenata and his Brazilian group Choro Famoso.

Other upcoming projects include a recording with Brazilian mandolinist Hamilton de Hollanda as well as concert dates and a live CD with mandolinist Chris Thile on Sugar Hill Records.

Besides his formidable musical talents, Marshall is a fine and inspired cook and has been known to trade lessons (music for cooking craft) with some of the Bay Area's finest chefs. He is also a well-known producer, with his Oakland-based Gatorland Studios responsible for some of the finest acoustic recordings in recent times. The combination of great cooking and cooking recording makes collaborations with Marshall at Gatorland one of the most sought after gigs in new acoustic music. USGS Satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... View of downtown Oakland looking west across Lake Merritt. ...

He is married to an exceptional violinist, Kaila Flexer, herself a prominent Klezmer musician. They have a lovely and precocious daughter, Lucy. Klezmer (Yiddish כלזמיר, from Hebrew kli zemer כלי זמר, vessel of song) is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. ...