This year on August 21, 1969 Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA. The typical instrument of Hawaii is the tiny ukulele, and one of the musicians, who really know how to play the ukulele is Jake Shimabukuro. The following video shows how Jake Shimabukuro plays one of his most successful pieces, the Beatles […]
Hawaii, the Ukulele and Jake Shimabukuro Read More »
Luperce Miranda is one of the most important composer of choros for the bandolim, the brazilian mandolin. Miranda was born in 1904 and died in 1977, he has composed more than 500 choros. You can find some biographical notes about Miranda in the Choro Blog: Luperce Miranda – King of the Mandolin Many of Mirandas
Brasil na Pauta – Luperce Miranda – Great Choros from Brazil Read More »
CD Works for Mandolin and Piano with Richard Walz, Mandolin, and Viviana Sofronitzki, Piano I have just discovered the following videos with recordings by Richard Walz. These are recordings from a CD Works for Mandolin and Piano with Richard Walz, Mandolin, and Viviana Sofronitzki, Piano, recorded in 1998. This CD is probably no more available,
Richard Walz – Beethoven, Hummel and Neuling – Works for Mandolin and Piano Read More »
The history of the electric guitar began in the early 1930s. Especially the Hawaiian lap steel guitar was electrified and used by several Hawaiian bands of the time. British Pathé has documented such performances, those are certainly very interesting documents for the history of the elctric guitar. Rudy Starita 22/06/1936 Now Pathetone has pleasure in
The Early Electric Guitar / Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar + Rare Video Clips (1936 – 1939) Read More »
The French ukulele site ukulele.fr pointed me today to British Pathé. British Pathé is one of the oldest media companies, the founder of the company – Charles Pathé – began already in the 1890s to work with moving images. They produced weekly movies with the events and news of the week for the cinamas and
British Pathé – Historic videos with mandolin, banjo, ukulele and guitar Read More »
When I heard Bluegrass Special for the first time, I was immediately fascinated by this tune. This tune is contained on the CD 16 Gems with 16 early recordings by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. I have learned this tune from the CD and wrote it down for me, and soon we started playing
Bluegrass Special – Bill Monroe – A great Bluegrass tune – Blues in A Read More »
Some days ago I have heard a song in the Canada Live Podcast that sticked to my mind. The singer is named Dan Mangan and was just elected as Artist of the Year of the XM Satellite’s Verge Music. I do especially like the end of the song, where the audience is asked to sing
Dan Mangan – Robots Read More »
Ricardo Sandoval was born in Venezela, but he lives in France now. He plays the mandolin and the typical Venezuelan instruments cuatro and bandola llanera. In 2007 he played together with his band Recoveco on the french television. They played a piece composed by Ricardo Sandoval name Ibagué me quieras. In this video Ricard Sandoval
Ricardo Sandoval and Alexis Cardenas – Recoveco – Great Music from Venezuela Read More »
Yesterday I accidentally found a video with the tune Ashokan Farewell. I had previously heard this melody, but I have never really dealt with it. But now I want to show this melody to our fiddle player, and I have searched for more videos with this tune. When you hear Ashokan Farewell you might think
Ashokan Farewell – Jay Ungar – Beautiful Melody – The Civil War Read More »
The music composed by Astor Piazzolla is famous around the world, especially the three pieces from Histoire du tango are played very often. And very often those pieces are played with mandolin and guitar. In Taiwan YaHui Chen und YunChang Dong have played tose three pieces in a concert with chines 4-stringed mandolin liuqin and
Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango – Liuqin (Chinese Mandolin) and Guitar Read More »
