Cristofaro – Methode de Mandoline (1884) I have recently added the first part of the mandolin method by Ferdinando de Cristofaro as a free download to my homepage mandoisland. You can find information about Cristofaro in the famous book “The Guitar and Mandolin” by Ph. J. Bone entnommen, you can view or download this complete [...]
John Reischman is one of my favorite mandolin players – I love the sound that he produces with his great Lloyd Loar mandolin. A recent podcast of the CBC presents a concert with John Reischman and the Jaybirds Mandolin master John Reischman and his band the Jaybirds play upbeat, foot-stomping bluegrass in this concert from [...]
Marijke and Michiel Wiesenekkerare the Amsterdams Mandoline en Gitaar Duo. I have met them several times during the last years – sometimes together with there parents – and it has always been a great fun and experience to jam with them until late at night. Marijke has studied mandolin in Wuppertal, and Michiel has studied [...]
Peter Ostroushko is a mandolin player and composer – and he is one of my favorite mandolin players. So I am very happy that I have found a recent interview with Peter Ostroushko on the site of the Prairie Home Companion. Interview with Peter Ostroushko 2010 (Prairie Home Companion) http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/interviews/ostroushko_peter_2010/ In this interview Peter Ostroushko [...]
A German Blog has just written about an interview that David Grisman has made with Chris Thile in 2008 Interview mit den beiden Mandolinen-Virtuosen David Grisman und Chris Thile http://www.gitarrengurte.de/blog/?p=1169 This is an interesting post with a lot of informations about David Grisman and Chris Thile. The Interview was published in the Fretboard Journal in [...]