MandoIsland Blog

Some days ago I have listened to Folk Alley and heard a recording that I liked immediately. This was a medley of two Irish tunes played by Eilen Ivers (fiddle) and John Whelan (accordion): Trip to Skye by John Whelan and a tune that is called Darach DeBruns but that is actually a tune named [...]

Illustrated Sheet Music Collection Sometimes I like to look at the covers of old sheet music editions. Recently I have often used the Illustrated Sheet Music Collection at http://www.imagesmusicales.be/ besucht. On this page you can find a collection of sheet music from the time between 1890 and 1940. More than 10000 covers of sheet music [...]

Every year in August there is a  Scottish Fiddle School on the Thompson Island close to Boston. For one week you can learn how to play fiddle in the Scottish style, but there are also courses for guitar, cello or bagpipes, and the fiddle style of Cape Breton. On the website of the Scottish Fiddle [...]

Sebastiao Tapajos is a guitarist from Brazil who played frequently in Germany too. I am sure that I have attended one of his concerts in the 70s in Freiburg. An interesting fact that I have found in a blog about Sebastiao Tapajos is that he played a concert as a repetition of one of his [...]