Dan James is a singer who uses his mandocello or cittern to accompany his songs. He also uses a 7-string guitar. This is an introduction about Dan James taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/06/24/dan_james_group.shtml Dan James has been a full time professional musician since 1997. When he’s not writing music or gigging he does this and that (mostly …
The great British mandolinist Alison Stephens has died on October 10, 2010. She was only 40 years old. Alison Stephens was the leading British mandolinist. She has played the mandolin part for many performances in Britain and all over the world and appeared in many BBC broadcasts. Alison has recorded several great CDs with different …
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I have a very old mandolin record by Phil Beer that I have bought many years ago, but I did not hear anything about Phil Beer since I bought this record. Now a just found a note about Show of Hands who are touring through the north of Germany, and found out, that Show of …
Some days ago I have found (by a tweet from twitter) the following video of a Japanese mandolin orchestra: じょんがら (translation of the information from the video): guitars mandolin club. Omura, held at City Hall in May, has played up the 54th Music Festival Union High School in Nagasaki Prefecture. Was cut in half the …