Paul Ruppa has written the following article for the Mandolin Journal of the Classical Mandolin Society of America (CMSA). To make this article available for the mandolin community he asked me to publish it in my blog. Using the internet three years ago, I began to build a list of the oldest active mandolin orchestras …
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In this post I want to present a new book about mandolin history in Spain. It is the first book in a planned series of books dealing with the history of the bandurria and mandolin in Spain. BALDOMERO CATEURA AND THE SPANISH MANDOLIN Biography, organology, influences, technical proposals of his method, repertoire, projection and anthology. …
I have recently found an interview with David Grisman (Live on the Jake Feinberg Show) where he talked about the recording of the Bluegrass Album with Red Allen and Frank Wakefield in 1964. He later talks about his projects with Jerry Garcia. This interview inspired me to look back to the early 1960s and how …
There are not so many documentations about Bluegrass available. This is a high quality 24 minute video about Bluegrass in Washington, D. C. Washington D.C., The Bluegrass Capitol – The Story of Bluegrass in Washington, D.C. I created this video when I was in graduate school pursuing an MFA in film. I have been working …
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