During the last days I have looked for some interesting choro music, and I have discovered a project titled Beatles’n’Choro. 4 CDs with Beatlessongs played by Brazilian Choro musicians with clarinet, flute, cavaquinho, bandolim, violao and pandeiro. On the bandolim we can hear Hamilton de Holanda who plays a nice arrangement of Something on the [...]
I have just listened to the Art of Time Ensemble: Abbey Road – another great concert of the CBC concerts on demand. If you love the original album by the Beatles, you will also like this concert – a great concert with so much energy – incredible. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20090927abbey Forty years to the day after the [...]
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
Recently I heard a broadcast about songs by the Beatles and also by Tom Waits in Country and Bluegrass music. As I have been a fan of the Beatles all my life, I made a search for the most interesting videos of Beatles songs in youtube, and I have found a lot of interesting stuff. [...]
Some days ago I wrote about Carol of the Bells, and that the first version of this tune that I liked was the version played by the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble on the CD of Patty Loveless Bluegrass & White Snow. And some days ago I found new videos of the NME with some Christmas tunes. [...]