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: Radio Show with the Kruger Brothers: http://wpln.org/?p=27341 The first piece by the Kruger Brothers in this show is Deena – a very beautiful song, unfortunately I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 skils of the players of the local mandolin orchstras. This year again there is a workshop for a national mandolin orchestra with Florentino Calvo and Vincent [...]