For the New Year 2011 my wish Always Mandolin Some time ago I have made an interactive picture with this: Always Mandolin Move the mouse over the picture to change the colors! Click to freeze the image! Reload to get new colors! Enjoy the mandolin!
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Google has included the search for the oud – the Arabian lute – to the Holiday Logo for Christmas 2010. It’s great that google has added this search for an inmportan plucked instrument that is played all over the Middle East. Wikipedia about the oud: The oud (Arabic: عود ʿūd, plural:أعواد, a‘wād; Assyrian:ܥܘܕ ūd, Persian:
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I am just listening to the Punch Brothers on Mountain Stage – a concert that is available at NPR: Punch Brothers On Mountain Stage http://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132203317/punch-brothers-on-mountain-stage Mandolin player Chris Thile is better known for his role in Nickel Creek, but in 2010, it was all about his new band, Punch Brothers, and the group’s second album,
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Almost one year has passed since Butch Baldassari died on January 10. In his latest BBC broadcast Mike Harding played a piece from the CD Travellers with Butch Baldassari, John Reischman and Robin Bullock, a very nice medley composed of the following three tunes: The Old French / The Wise Maid / Swinging On A
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Since 1990 the Early Music Freiburg (Freiburger Spielleyt) have successfully played music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance with instruments like mediaval lute, barock lute, viola da gamba, harp, flute, hurdy gurdy, krummhorn, frame drum and many others. The members of the ensemble have met at the music university of Freiburg and the Schola
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Today I want to present the Washington Balalaika Orchestra. The concert given on Oct. 9 has been recorded and is available in five youtube videos. The orchestra was founded more than 20 years ago and is directed by Svetlana Nikonova since 2003. Today the Washington Balalika Society has the biggest balalaika orchestra in the USA,
The Deadly Gentlemen have recorded their first album “Carry Me To Home” – it was be released in January 2011. The complete album was available as a pre-release for free download from the bandcamp homepage – the only thing you had to do is to register for the band newsletter with your email address. I
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Now available at NPR: Elton John And Leon Russell, Live From The Beacon Theatre Earlier this year, Elton John and his piano-playing idol, Leon Russell, released an album together, aptly titled The Union. It’s a gruff but gorgeous collaboration that sounds better than anything either living legend has recorded in at least a decade. The
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Recently I have listened to a Country radio show by Bob Harris from the BBC. The second song of this show was the song Wasting my Time by Zoe Muth, a nice song which also includes a great mandolin part. This song is also available on Zoe Muth’s myspace page (see below). In the meantime
If you play with a band its much mor fun to lear new tunes. If you want to learn some Irish jigs, reels or hornpipes on your mandolin, tin whistle, banjo, guitar or accordeon you can find a great resource at the BBC – the Virtual Session. BBC Virtual Session: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/ You can find sets
