A set of about 20 videos from a concert in Japan from last october are available at youtube. Ricardo Sandoval plays mainly mandolin, but also the bandola llanera from Venezuela. He is accompanied by guitar, cajon, mandolin and mandola. Let’s start with a great Calipso by Ricard Sandoval – the group has a lot of [...]
Madeira must be a good place for mandolins – at the moment there are 17 mandolin orchstras and tunas on Madeira. Activities of those orchestras can be found on the homepage of the Associacion de Bandolins de Madeira http://www.bandolins-madeira.net/ A group of four players with mandolin, mandola (octave mandolin), guitar and bass has arranged some [...]
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 – [...]