Old-time musicians part of Smithsonian folkways project, https://folkways.si.edu/david-bill-and-billie-ray-johnson/old-time-north-carolina-mountain-music/bluegrass/music/album/smithsonian
The first Mandolin Orchestra in North America, the Spanish Student Mandolin Orchestra. Henry Eugene Abbey's "Humpty Dumpty Combination." Image of February 3rd, 1880 performance in Manhattan. The group introduced the mandolin orchestra craze to North America.