The 2021 Connvention of the Classical Mandolin Society of America (CMSA) was held as an online event. Several artists were invited to send videos of performances and workshops. After the convention nunberous videos have been uploaded to youtube and are now available. I have compiled the videos that I have found in this post. Enjoy! […]
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The mandolin students of Vincent Beer-Demander – Conservatoire royal de Liège – Professeur Vincent Beer Demander – gave an online concert in 2021. This is a great chance to see different young players and listen to different mandolins. Program Thomas Paclade: Partita de Philippe Sauli for mandolin solo Nina Grimaud – Ochiana for mandolin solo
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The following video has recently been uploaded to youtube. 2018 North Carolina Heritage Award recipient Tony Williamson is a visionary musician, composer, musical instrument expert, teacher and mentor. He has played stringed instruments, most famously mandolin, for six decades and has been receiving awards and honors for his music for nearly 50 of those years.
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I have first discovered Andrew Collins on the coolmandolin website where he had allowed his music to be played for the visitors. He belongs to the most interesting mandolin players that I know. Andrew Collins founded his Andrew Collins Trio some years ago. Each of the three musicians plays several instruments. Andrew Collins plays mandolin,
The mandoloncello (or mandocello) is regularly used in most of the mandolin orchestras in Japan. So I have recently collected some interesting mandoloncello videos and want to present the best videos from Japan in this post. A side effect of the regular use of the mandoloncello in the mandolin orchestras is that there are many
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Some great video clips from a recent concert with Oliver Waitze, Marijke and Michiel Wiesenekker and special guest Tim Connell: WOW, what a wonderful evening with great musicians and a wild audiance!! The concert was on 13th July at the New Acoustic Gallery (www.n-a-g.net) in Germany. The whole concert was also filmed. Watch out for
Some time ago I have found a video with five mandolins playing together, probably when I searched for videos with Mike Marshall who was one of the five mandolin players. Now I have found that there are four videos from this special performance, I have collected all 4 in my playlist. In the 3rd and
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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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Dan James is a singer who uses his mandocello or cittern to accompany his songs. He also uses a 7-string guitar. This is an introduction about Dan James taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/06/24/dan_james_group.shtml Dan James has been a full time professional musician since 1997. When he’s not writing music or gigging he does this and that (mostly
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I have a very old mandolin record by Phil Beer that I have bought many years ago, but I did not hear anything about Phil Beer since I bought this record. Now a just found a note about Show of Hands who are touring through the north of Germany, and found out, that Show of
