A tweet by Sarah Jarosz led me to the Homepage of the Nashville Public Radio and I am just now listening to a radio show with the Kruger Brothers. The first piece by the Kruger Brothers in this show is Deena – a very beautiful song, unfortunately I have not found a video of this […]
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Some years ago I have already made some research about the tunas and estudiantinas. Tunas are groups of students who play mandolin, bandurria or guitar and sing. Many universities in Spain, Portugal and in South and Middel America have tunas. But even in the Netherlands and Germany you can find some tunas. A tuna from
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Sarah Jarosh has just released her new album Follow me Down, a fantastic album with many great songs. I cannot stop listening to this great album! In the following video Sarah Jarosz talks about some of the songs and about the other great musicians that sing and played with her – Chris Thile and the
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In France there has been a very positive developement of the mandolin music during the last years. Like in Germany regional mandolin orchestras have been organized to improve the skills of the players of the local mandolin orchstras. In 2011 there was a workshop for a national mandolin orchestra with Florentino Calvo and Vincent Beer-Demander
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Some time ago I have discovered three new videos with the Zupforchester Ötzingen, the mandolin orchestra from Ötzingen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. They have played pieces by Edvard Grieg, Fred Witt and Jose Antonio Zambrano during a festival of music in the city of Koblenz. This orchestra belongs to the best mandolin orchestras in Rhineland-Palatinate. I
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Some time ago I have discovered a site with a collection of free sheet music for the fisarmonca – the accordeon. Its mainly a collection of Italian tunes, folk songs, folk dances and also some opera melodies. When I visited this site again I looked at some Tarantellas and decided to write a post about
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Alison Krauss has just released her latest CD Paper Aiplane. I have recently listened to the title track and I have just found the complete album at grooveshark and created a widget so that you can listen to it easily (see below). This album has many great songs! And there are some nice videos too:
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Giovanni Gioviale was a famous Italian mandolin player during the beginning of the 20th century. A detailed biography of Giovanni Gioviale can be found on the site of the Federazione Mandolinistica Italiana. Between 1926 and 1929 Gioviale stayed in New York, and during this stay he recorded many of his pieces. David Grisman has compiled
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