The first twoday Bluegrass Festival took place in 1965. It is fantastic, that there are 2 videos from this first festival, with many of the Bluegrass bands popular in 1965: First Bluegrass Festival Fincastle Virginia 1965 featuring Don Reno Clip from the first bluegrass festival in Fincastle Virginia from 1965 featuring Don Reno, Bill Monroe, […]
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Benzinho is Chor No. 15 in the Songbook Choro which contains 97 typical Choros from Brazil. This is one of the often played and well known Choros by Jacob do Bandolim. Here are some videos of Benzinho. First I have a typical Brazilian version from a pub with a lot of noise – but thats
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Here is my video showing vintage mandolin postcards form my private postcard collection. Many of those postcards are more than 100 years old: Vintage Mandolin Postcard Collection More pictures of my vintage postcards can be found in my instagram profile You can also check my mandolin website www.mandoisland.de! Merken
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Once again I have discovered a fantastic concert with guitar music. Pavlo, Rik Emmett und Oscar Lopez – the P.R.O. guitar trio – have performed this concert on February, 21st at the L’Astral in Montréal Three master players collaborate to form an acoustic trio of passionate, fiery guitars. Pavlo, Rik Emmett and Oscar Lopez have
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Edu Miranda has uploaded three new videos to youtube. This time he plays the bandolim in the Roda de Choro de Lisboa. The videos have been taken from a recent TV show. I like the version of Brejeiro by Ernesto Nazareth very much. It is not played too fast, but with a lot of rhythm
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During the last weeks I have learned the Lonsome Fiddle Blues, a tune composed by Vassar Clements. I like to play this tune very much, and we are going to play it with my bluegrass band too. I have first heard the Lonesome Fiddle Blues in a youtube video where Sierra Hull – aged 10
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Lucia Bova is a harp player from Italy. She has published many videos of her performances in her youtube channel, including many pieces for harp and mandolin. I was surprised to hear those pieces, and especially to learn, that one of the pieces has been composed by a teacher for composition at this conservatory, Andrea
Marit Larsen has become very popular in Germany, currently she is touring through Germany and I have read some articles about her. Very often I could read, that she does also play the mandolin too in her shows. Today I tried to find some interesting videos with Marit Larsen and the mandolin – here is
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Some days ago many videos from the Mandolin Symposium have been uploaded by youtube user mandotunes. My faorite video at the moment is a video of a performance of the Children’s Master Class in 2004. The group was conducted by Chris Thile and did really give a great performance – do not miss this! Children’s
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Acoustic Revolution is the name of a young German Folk Pop trio that will publish its first CD in May. Today I found a text about the band, with information about the just released maxi CD with four tracks of the coming CD titled Ramble and Roam. The complete text (in German) can be found
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