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Matt Flinner and Ross Martin

Mandolinist Matt Flinner and guitarist Ross Martin cover a wide variety of musical stylesall with the common ground of originality. Bluegrass, jazz and Celtic music are present here, but not necessarily overtly. Call it Americana Music, or New Acoustic, or Chamber Grass, or just call it Great Music; whatever the label, it's guaranteed to be fresh and original, and definitely something you've never quite heard before.
Starting out as a banjo prodigy at bluegrass festivals before he even entered his teens, Matt Flinner later took up the mandolin, won the National Banjo Competition in Winfield, KS in 1990, and won the mandolin award there the following year. He moved to Nashville in 1999 and is now widely considered one of the hottest and most creative mandolin players on the acoustic scene, with several discs out on the Compass Records label.