FORKS — Solo Mandolin Times Two, featuring mandolin virtuosos Evan Marshall and Brian Oberlin, will arrive at Peninsula College’s Forks site, 481 S. Forks Ave., for a special concert this Thursday.
Tickets to the 7 p.m. performance are $15 for the general public and free for Peninsula College students.
Marshall, who plays in the duo-style, is an internationally renowned mandolinist, while Oberlin is a swing mandolin player and a singer.
Marshall’s stylistic signature is classical, with strong Italian and American folk influences, while his playing mixes bass lines, chords, rhapsodic runs and tremolo melodies.
He’s “one of the few great musicians of our time,” according to country guitarist Chet Atkins.
Music lovers may know him from his appearances on “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor.
Oberlin, meantime, is the director and founder of the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra and the River of the West Mandolin Camp.
When he is not performing, he teaches music to children and adults at art centers, festivals, camps and music schools.
He’s played swing, bluegrass and Italian classical as a solo mandolinist and vocalist, and is known for his ability to switch gears in the middle of a concert.
Oberlin might, for instance, switch from crooning an old Irving Berlin or George Gershwin song to playing a Western swing tune.
He might play a Stevie Wonder or Allman Brothers song on his electric mandolin and then transition into a piano rag.
For more information about Thursday’s mandolin show, visit www.PenCol.edu or phone the Forks site at 360-374-3223.