London is the musical capital of the world. I think almost every musical you can think of can be seen in London. In the Victoria & Albert Museum we saw an interesting exhibition about theatre and entertainment, with a display about the costumes used in Lion King. We had seen the ads for the musical […]
London 2013 – The Musical “Once” – With Mandolin, Banjo and Ukulele Read More »
In this post I have compiled several playlists with music for mandolin and other stringed instruments from Venezuela. I have a page on my website mandoisland about the mandolin and other interesting information about the music in Venzuela. MandoIsland Website: mandoisland.de Page about music in Venezuela: http://www.mandoisland.de/weblog_venezuela.html Music from Venezuela Venezuela – Percujazz (Cuatro/Bandola) Bandola
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On tumblr I have found the announcement of a new CD by Laura-Beth Salter. Laura-Beth Salter sings and plays the mandolin. She performs together with Jenn Butterworth as a duo, but mainly she is a member of the band Shee, a band composed of five women. The new album Breathe will be published on July
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The mandolin is not as often used for accompaniment of songs as the ukulele. So I am always happy when I find examples for a mandolin used by singers for accompaniment. Bonnie Sims has made a set of videos where she sings and accompanies herself with the mandolin. You can also find a set of
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Sarah Jarosz has just released her new EP LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR – this is the information that I have got in the latest newsletter from sugarhill records: Nashville, Tenn. (April 19, 2013) – Austin native and folk songstress Sarah Jarosz celebrates Record Store Day with a new live release, LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR. The five song EP
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Jarmo Romppanen has just released his second album with solo music for 10-string mandolin Solmogen II. I have met Jarmo during the European Mandolin Academy in Trossingen. With his group Nordic Choro Jarmo has recorded a CD with Choro music. And some years ago he has published his first solo CD Solmagen. Now he has
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A great concert by the Canadian duo Fire & Smoke is available on the CBC concerts on demand site. The duo is composed of Claire Morrison and Daniel Péloquin-Hopfner. The speciality of this duo are the songs in two languages, English and French. Daniel accompanies the songs with the guitar, but he uses the banjo
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I have recently found a picture of the Lumineers on the tumblr site – the trio with mandolin, cello and guitar made me curious. This folk-rock and Americana band was founded more than 10 years ago, but during the last year it became so popular that it even got two Grammy nominations for 2013. Their
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Peter Ostroushko is one of my favorite mandolin players – he plays an interesting mix of fiddle tunes, oldtime music, music from the Ukraine where his roots are, classical mandolin pieces and his fantastic own compositions. And he has a great, mellow sound when he plays. Recently Peter Ostroushko has published his CD-Box The Mando
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Mandolin and Fiddle – Jake Jolliff and Alex Hargreaves Jake Jolliff belongs to the great young mandolin players in the uSA. He plays in the band Joy Kills Sorrow, but also as a duo together with Alex Hargreaves on the fiddle. A complete concert of the duo has recently been filmed and is available at
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