I have just made a new recording and video of Thebes – a great mandolin tune by Norman Blake. We love to play this tune with our bluegrass band. I have made a multi-track recording (using the free Audacity software) with mandolin, guitar and a second mandolin playing chords. Thebes – Great Mandolin Tune by […]
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I have just listened to this great set of duets played by Mike Marshall and Chris Thile. This is great music, Mike Marshall and Chris Thile are real masters of the mandolin and mandocello. You can listen to the videos from a woodsongs concert. Enjoy this fantastic Live Duets with Mike Marshall and Chris Thile!
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Last week I have found a nice video of the Japanese mandolin orchestra Viva Mandolino playing Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head This inspired me to search for other videos of this great song played on plucked instruments. Another great performance of this song is played by the Guitar Ensemble Harmonics Guitar Ensemble Harmonics Rain
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I have just prepared a scan of the first book of the Odell Method for the Mandolin by Herbert Forrest Odell (1872 – 1926) and added it to my homepage mandoisland.de for free download. Herbert Forrest Odell is mainly known as the publisher of the famous magazine The Crescendo which was published in Boston between
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The Musikforum Schweinfurt e.V. is a community of musicians, music lovers and teachers. They have selected the following motto for their activities: FREUDE MUSIK BEGEGNUNG Im Mittelpunkt steht die Musik. My translation (if you have a better translation please let me know): JOY MUSIC MEETING In the center there is the music. The Musikforum Schweinfurt
Under the Double Eagle (German: Unter dem Doppeladler) is a military march composed by Josef Franz Wagner during the last decades of the 19th century (probably around 1880). I have found a recording that was made on an Edison cylinder in 1899 on the archive.org site (see below). Some years later around 1908 the famous
I am just listening to a great concert on the Nashville Public Radio: On this week’s program, multi-instrumentalist and composer John Mock presents his own music. Then, we welcome Justin Wade Tam and Humming House, with their mix of folk, blues, and bluegrass with pop sensibilities. If you have time you should listen to this
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Sarah Jarosh has just released her new album Follow me Down, a fantastic album with many great songs. I cannot stop listening to this great album! In the following video Sarah Jarosz talks about some of the songs and about the other great musicians that sing and played with her – Chris Thile and the
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Some time ago I have discovered a site with a collection of free sheet music for the fisarmonca – the accordeon. Its mainly a collection of Italian tunes, folk songs, folk dances and also some opera melodies. When I visited this site again I looked at some Tarantellas and decided to write a post about
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Alison Krauss has just released her latest CD Paper Aiplane. I have recently listened to the title track and I have just found the complete album at grooveshark and created a widget so that you can listen to it easily (see below). This album has many great songs! And there are some nice videos too:
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