In three weeks we will have Christnmas, everywhere the special Christmas fairs have opened, people are drinking “Glühwein”, and the snow has brought a nice Winter feeling. So I thought it’s time to present some videos with Christmas music. This is an mandolin orchestra from Japan who plays the famous Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson: […]
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Accidentally I have found a drawing of Wu Man, the chinese pipa player and some other musicians from a concert of the Silk Road Project, by Cindy Woods. Cindy Woods died from cancer in Nov. 2008. In her last years she has published almost 2000 drawings in her flickr photo strean and in her blog
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Just found an article in the New York Times about Wu Man, a Chinese player of the pipa who came to the USA in 1990. Wu Man has recently released a new CD Immeasurable Light. Wu Man is the most important player of the Chinese Pipa in western countries. She has played all kind of
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The mandolin orchestra Mandolinenclub Falkenstein was founded in 1925. In 1965 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary the orchestra organized fir the first time an international competition for mandolin orchestras. Other competitions were organized over the years. Currently the orchestra consists of ca. 20 members. The orchestra was conducted by Keith Harris between 2001
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I have just found the album River Boy on the airplaydirect site and listened to the complete album. River Boy plays great bluegrass music, with great harmony singing, great mandolin solos by Bob Sachs, great songs and instrumentals. From airplaydirect: The band River Boy has released their self-titled debut album chocked full of fresh, original
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Steve Martin is a very interesting person – he has won awards as a comedian, as an actor, as a writer and also as a musician. Steve Martin’s album The Crow: New Songs For the Five-String Banjo won best bluegrass album at the 2010 Grammy awards: http://www.bluegrassjournal.com/2010/02/01/steve-martin-wins-best-bluegrass-album-at-the-grammy-awards/ Steve Martin picked up Bluegrass’ biggest award at
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Takashi Ochi (jap. 越智 敬, Ochi Takashi; * 30. Oktober 1934 in Imabari; † 14. November 2010 in Heppenheim, Hessen[1]) was a German-Japanese mandolinist, mandolin teacher, composer and editor. German text and translation to English from the German Wikipedia article about Takashi Ochi with the most important information: Takashi Ochi wurde am 30. Oktober 1934
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Sfida was founded in March 2004. The members of the group are playing solo- and chambermusic for mandolin, mandola, mandoloncello and guitar The name of the group “Sfida” is Italian and means “challenge”. The group has organized concerts every year, the last concert was the 14th concert and was given on Sept. 5th, 2010. Sfida
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The Marionette Mandolin Orchestra from Japan has recently added 10 videos to its youtube channel. The titles of those interesting pieces are difficult to get because they are only given in Japanese language. But I think that all the pieces are original compositions by Yuasa Takashi und Yoshida Goshi. Yuasa Takashi and Yoshida Goshi have
Dan James is a singer who uses his mandocello or cittern to accompany his songs. He also uses a 7-string guitar. This is an introduction about Dan James taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/06/24/dan_james_group.shtml Dan James has been a full time professional musician since 1997. When he’s not writing music or gigging he does this and that (mostly
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