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The Wisconsin / Vega Project – Exploring America’s Forgotten Tradition

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The New Vintage Frets is an American mandolin ensemble based in Wisconsin. In 2018 this ensemble produced a CD titled: The Wisconsin/Vega Project CD This unique CD offers present day recordings of century-old mandolin ensemble arrangements thoughtfully selected from Wisconsin-based mandolin orchestra libraries. Pieces in the collection were published in either the 1890s or early 1900s. …

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Mandolin Mountain – A Concert in Estonia – Saku Mandolin Festival

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Mandolin Mountain is a mandolin orchestra founded by Jouni Koskimäki from Finland. This year they were the main act for the Saku Mandolin Festival 2016. It’s fun to watch the group perform, as you can see from the following GIFs that I have created form some of the videos: Mandolin Mountain has played at the …

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Ensemble Hikari 光 live on German TV – Denise Wambsganß & Yasuyoshi Naito (mandolin), Hirotaka Nozaki (mandola)

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The Ensemble Hikari 光 has been invited to the show „Kaffee oder Tee?“ (coffee or tea?) of the German TV Station SWR on January 3rd, 2014. Now three videos have been made available at youtube. The ensemble has been founded by mandolin players from Germany and Japan and it aims to make music by Japanese composers better …

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Ernesto Becucci – The famous waltz “Tesoro Mio” and other Compositions – Sheet Music for Mandolin & Guitar

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Ernesto Becucci (1845 – 1905) was a popular and succesful Italian composer during the second half of the 19th century. Especially his composition “Tesoro Mio” has been successful all over the world. His compositions have also been arranged for mandolin and mandolin orchestra. In the monthly reports about published music (Hofmeisters Monatsberichte) from 1906 I …

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