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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Some time ago I have discovered this duo from Japan that plays a nice selection of music with mandolin and ukulele. For each video a special setup has been installed for the video, showing a special toy, a plant or like in the following video a drink: Ukulele × Mandolin – MOLIENDO CAFE (コーヒールンバ) Ukulele
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Elke Limbach is mandolin player and teacher who teaches mandolin and guitar in her own music school in Hennef-Sieg / Westerhausen which is close to Bonn, the former capital of Germany. Her students were very successfull in the German youth competition “Jugend Musiziert”. She is also conducting several mandolin orchestras. Together with the guitarist Kanaho
It is some time ago that I have discovered the videos of the Duo Andante from Japan. The duo plays some nice tunes with mandolin and guitar, including pieces by Bach, Scott Joplin and arrangements of popular Japanese enka-songs. This is the famous ragtime The Entertainer by Scott Joplin played by the Duo Andante: The
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Today I want to present videos with two pieces by Salvator Léonardi (or Salvatore Leonardi). According to Philip J. Bone, The Guitar and Mandolin, Schott 1972, Salvatore Leonardi was born at Catania (Sicily). Bone continues: He was taught the mandolin and guitar by an uncle living in Naples and studied the violin in Naple Conservatoire
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The Duo “Esposito-Ameglio” has made available some videos from a concert given Jan. 29th 2011 in Gennaio. The program included works by Raffaele Calace for mandolin and piano, a beautifull Ave Maria by Caccini and the Concerto for Mandolin by Emanuele Barbella. Paola Esposito Born in Savona in 1978. She brilliantly concluded her mandolin studies
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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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Lucia Bova is a harp player from Italy. She has published many videos of her performances in her youtube channel, including many pieces for harp and mandolin. I was surprised to hear those pieces, and especially to learn, that one of the pieces has been composed by a teacher for composition at this conservatory, Andrea
Today a new fantastic mandolin video has been uploaded to youtube by Carlos Blanco Ruiz. The video shows a performance of Railroad Song, a composition by Yasuo Kuwahara, played by the composer himself on the mandolin and Carlos Blanco Ruiz on the guitar. It was recorded in 1999. This is the first time that I
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I found those two pieces for mandolin and church organ recently. Both pieces are taken from a recording with religious music which was recorded in the 1980s by Benny Ludemann (mandolin) and Klaas Jan Mulder (organ). Benny Ludemann is a mandolin and guitar player from the Netherlands. He has made many appearances in radio and
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