Kostas Grigoreas – In the Greek Mode – Compositions for Guitar by Greek Composers

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Kostas Grigoreas is a guitarist from Greece who has made many of his recordings available at youtube. In many of the videosGrigoreas plays composition for the guitar by Greek composers. Among others he plays pieces by Dimitri Fampas, Manos Hadjidakis, Akos Petik and Kyriakos Tzorzinakis. But Grigoreas has also recorded a CD with his own …

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“Caroline” by River Boy – Acoustic, Bluegrassy Music

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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 – The Crow – New Songs for the Banjo

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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 – The great Japanese-German Mandolinist died at 76

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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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