This morning I listened to the newest Canda Live podcast with Lake of Stew, a six-piece acoustic string band from Montreal, Quebec. On the band homepage you can find the following text about the band and it’s music, a definition that fits very well to what I have heard from the podcast and the videos: …
The time around christmas is a time to listen to music like the music by this German group – the Fraunhofer Saitenmusik. The group is named after a location, an old guesthouse in Munich and was founded in 1978 by Heidi Zink and Richard Kurländer Das »Fraunhofer« – eines der ältesten und schönsten Wirtshäuser Münchens …
Fraunhofer Saitenmusik – Magic Strings – Hackbrett / Hammered Dulcimer Read More »
This morning I have listened to the CBC Live podcast with a solo concert by Bruce Cockburn. In this podcast you could hear a part of this concert given in April 2009. The complete concert with 20 tracks was available as a concert on demand also. Bruce Cockburn has released his 30th album Slice O Life – …
Roman Gurochkin is a cameraman and photographer from St. Petersburg, Russia, and his wife is a classical guitarist. Roman has produced several high quality music videos, including two videos with domra and guitar. The domra is a plucked instrument from Russia similar to a mandolin. It has 3 or 4 single stings tuned in fifths. …
Domra and Guitar – Russian Folksong and Flamenco Read More »