Some time ago I have presented the group Vishtén from Acadia / Canada who plays great fiddle music with powerfull step dance. In the meantime I have discovered two other bands from the same region, Acadia and the St. Edward Islands in Canada. Today I want to present Gadelle – four energized women with fiddle, […]
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The Duo Steffen Trekel (mandolin) and Michael Tröster (guitar) ist definitivly one of the most importand duos for mandolin and guitar in Germany and all over the world. When they travelled to Japan and Korea in 2009 a set of videos has been recorded showing the most importand pieces the duo plays. This includes several
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Some days ago I have made a new video with one movement from the Partita II in G major by Georg Philipp Telemann. I have played this Partita for many years now, and every now and then I have liked to play the movements from this Partita on the mandolin. The key of G major
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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
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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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Almost one year has passed since Butch Baldassari died on January 10. In his latest BBC broadcast Mike Harding played a piece from the CD Travellers with Butch Baldassari, John Reischman and Robin Bullock, a very nice medley composed of the following three tunes: The Old French / The Wise Maid / Swinging On A
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NPR has added two interesting Christmas playlists to their program. The forst one has been compiled from the favorite holiday songs from 10 different partner stations and includes all kind of music, from classical, pop, rap, bluegrass, jazz, folk, … It’s a seasonal tradition to gripe miserably about the ubiquity of holiday music — about
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Recently I have listened to a Country radio show by Bob Harris from the BBC. The second song of this show was the song Wasting my Time by Zoe Muth, a nice song which also includes a great mandolin part. This song is also available on Zoe Muth’s myspace page (see below). In the meantime
If you play with a band its much mor fun to lear new tunes. If you want to learn some Irish jigs, reels or hornpipes on your mandolin, tin whistle, banjo, guitar or accordeon you can find a great resource at the BBC – the Virtual Session. BBC Virtual Session: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/ You can find sets
Accidentally I have found a drawing of Wu Man, the chinese pipa player and some other musicians from a concert of the Silk Road Project, by Cindy Woods. Cindy Woods died from cancer in Nov. 2008. In her last years she has published almost 2000 drawings in her flickr photo strean and in her blog
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