Tim O’Brien: “Grandma’s Hands” | Northfield Mandolins
The songwriter and multi-instrumentalist plays a Bill Withers song live at the Marshall Mandolin Summit.
Northfield Mandolins has been gathering the eight-string faithful in the town of Marshall, Michigan every non-pandemic year for the Marshall Mandolin Summit, a weekend of amazing concerts and workshops with some of the finest mandolinists in the world. In this video, shot at the 2017 event, Tim O’Brien plays his version of Bill
Withers’ “Grandma’s Hands” with Jan Fabricius and Mike Marshall.
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