Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all readers! If you have some time you can visit my Picksibition with pictures, postcard albums and more! http://www.mandoisland.de/picks.html God rest ye merry. gentlemen
Google Holiday Logo – The Arabian Lute Oud – Mahmoud Turkmani – Mohamed Abozekry
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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Vishtèn ✵ Great Acadian Folk and Step Dance
On the homepage of the Musical Instruments Museum I have found a video by the Acadian group Vishtèn who will play a concert in January in this museum. I was immediately hit by this video, and I decided to find out more about this group. Vishtèn was founded about 10 years ago and is located …
Punch Brothers On Mountain Stage – New Concert at NPR – Chris Thile on Mandolin
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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