Art Rosenbaum is an US American painter and musician. I have met Art Rosenbaum in Freiburg when he spent a year teaching at the univerisity during the 80s. He used to bring his banjo to the lectures and play some examples of the true American folk music that he has recorded all over the country. [...]
If you count the youtube views this video might be one of the most successful songs with a mandola (or ocatave mandolin). It has been viewed almost 4 million times – it’s for sure that there are many more metal fans than people who watch traditional or classical mandola videos. Eluveitie – Omnos Eluveitie – [...]
The latest podcast from Radio Canada Live is a recording frm a concert given by the Canadia singer/songwriter duo Madison Violet in the Hugh’s Room in Toronto. Madison Violet has just released their Album No Fool. And they were named ‘Vocal Group of the Year’ at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. They also just won [...]
Acoustic Revolution is the name of a young German Folk Pop trio that will publish its first CD in May. Today I found a text about the band, with information about the just released maxi CD with four tracks of the coming CD titled Ramble and Roam. The complete text (in German) can be found [...]
Today I found a press release about the latest album Bastard Etno of the Danish-Finish band Afenginn which is released today. This made me curious and I listened to the tracks available on Afenginns myspace page. Finnish mandolinist Kim Nyberg composes almost all of their music. Afenginn is the winner of the Danish Folk Price [...]