I have recently discovered this great video produced by the Philharmonia Orchestra from London (UK) with Nigel Woodhouse. Nigel Woodhouse is a guitarist who does also play the mandolin, the banjo and other fretted instruments. Nigel plays a Neapolitan (or Roman) mandolin based on a mandolin by Luigi Embergher and made for Nigel in 1993 […]
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I have recently started working on a new tune with my student – Dargason. This tune goes back to John Playfords book about dancing – it just one line of music with instructions how to dance to the tune. On the abc notation website you can find this tune as well: This tune is related
Pasquale Troise (1895 – 1957) was born in Naples in 1895. He came to Great Britan during the 1920, first as a member of the London Radio Dance Band, but soon founded his own orchestra, the Selecta Plectrum Mandoline Orchestra, which was later renamed to Troise and his Mandoliers. When the banjo became more popular
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Simon Mayor is maybe the most active mandolin player in the UK. He plays everything from classical music to bluegrass. Simon has also releases many instructional books and mandolin methods. I have found the following video of the famous Minute Waltz some months ago, it was filmed during a Christmas concert. This video shows that
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During our hilidays in London we have visited two free concerts in the National Portrait Gallery. The second concert was given by a group named Melange. Melange was founded by the cellist Shirley Smart. She has spent many years in Israel and has become acquainted with the music of the East. Melange is playing a
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The London Mandolin Ensemble was founded in 2012. In previous years existed an earlier London Mandolin Ensemble, but for many years there was not much mandolin ensemble music in London. London Mandolin Ensemble is a small chamber orchestra of around a dozen musicians and conductor. Our members are keen plucked string players from London and
On tumblr I have found the announcement of a new CD by Laura-Beth Salter. Laura-Beth Salter sings and plays the mandolin. She performs together with Jenn Butterworth as a duo, but mainly she is a member of the band Shee, a band composed of five women. The new album Breathe will be published on July
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A picture with a mandolin – Dan The Mandolin Man! – shared with twitter led me to the new album by The Noisettes. The Noisettes will release their new album Contact tomorrow on Aug. 27th. The album was available as streaming audio for the last days at graziadaily.co.uk. I think this is a great album
I am currently reading about the history of the English Guitar or Guittar, a kind of Cittern. Some time ago I have written a post about this instrument in my German blog www.gezupftes.de. The guittar was developed after 1753 in Great Britain. According to the very detailed paper by Jürgen Kloss it has first been
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On April 20, 2012 Bert Weedon has passed away. Weedon was a very influetial guitarist in Great Britain, his instructional book Play in a Day has served many important guitarists including Paul McCarney and Eric Clapton to learn to play their instrument. Wikipedia: Herbert Maurice William ‘Bert’ Weedon, OBE (10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012)
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