MandoIsland Blog

Edu Miranda has uploaded three new videos to youtube. This time he plays the bandolim in the Roda de Choro de Lisboa. The videos have been taken from a recent TV show. I like the version of Brejeiro by Ernesto Nazareth very much. It is not played too fast, but with a lot of rhythm [...]

I have jsut dicovered this beautiful arrangement of the Beatles song Here Comes The Sun. I do not know if the TABs for this arrangement are available, but the video shows very good how the tune is played: Here Comes the Sun mandolin

During the last weeks I have learned the Lonsome Fiddle Blues, a tune composed by Vassar Clements. I like to play this tune very much, and we are going to play it with my bluegrass band too. I have first heard the Lonesome Fiddle Blues in a youtube video where Sierra Hull – aged 10  [...]

Those three videos of pieces for harp and mandolin have been recorded by two musicians in Bari, in the south of Italy. The concert took place at the conservatory Niccolo Piccinni in March. I was surprised to hear those pieces, and especially to learn, that one of the pieces has been composed by a teacher [...]