Some days ago I have listened to Folk Alley and heard a recording that I liked immediately. This was a medley of two Irish tunes played by Eilen Ivers (fiddle) and John Whelan (accordion): Trip to Skye by John Whelan and a tune that is called Darach DeBruns but that is actually a tune named […]
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Sometimes I like to look at the covers of old sheet music editions. Recently I have often used the Illustrated Sheet Music Collection at http://www.imagesmusicales.be/ besucht. On this page you can find a collection of sheet music from the time between 1890 and 1940. More than 10000 covers of sheet music have been scanned and
Every year in August there is a Scottish Fiddle School on the Thompson Island close to Boston. For one week you can learn how to play fiddle in the Scottish style, but there are also courses for guitar, cello or bagpipes, and the fiddle style of Cape Breton. On the website of the Scottish Fiddle
Sebastiao Tapajos is a guitarist from Brazil who played frequently in Germany too. I am sure that I have attended one of his concerts in the 70s in Freiburg. An interesting fact that I have found in a blog about Sebastiao Tapajos is that he played a concert as a repetition of one of his
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I have discovered a video with a small mandolin orchestra from Brazil. The very special about this orchestra is that the members of this group are five old ladies aged between 78 and 85 years. I was really surprised when I found this video! This is the youtube video with the orchestra Bandolineiras de Oeiras:
One year ago the guitarist Bill Frisell has recorded a one hour concert with the NPR. I had written about this in my German blog www.gezupftes.de, but I have just found that I did not make an English version for this blog. Now I have just found a new Tiny Desk Concert with three Beatles
When I searched for pieces by Abe Holzmann I have found a video of a ragtime guitar solo by Ton van Bergeyk – Smokey Mokes. This piece is contained in the collection Famous Guitar Ragtime Solos that has been produced in the 1970s by Stefan Grossman. The complete Album is available at youtube – you
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Recently I have found the sheet music for mandolin of a famous march composed by Abe Holzmann: Blaze-Away. This march has been composed in the year 1901 and has remained popular until today. From Wikipedia: Abe Holzmann (19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939) was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his
Talentos – Duo Siqueira Lima A TV- show from Brazil with the guitar duo Siqueira Lima. This duo plays an interesting repertoir of Brazilian and classical guitar music. In this program the duo plays mainly the Brazilian pieces, pieces by Baden Powell, Pixinguinha (Um a Zero), Astor Piazzolla but also a piece by Andrew York.
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The mandolin orchestra “Mandolinata Karlsruhe” has been filmed during a concert given in Logroño last year. The complete concert is available at youtube. The concert took place during the XIV Festival Internacional de Instrumentos Populares de La Rioja 2011. This orchestra is conducted by Christopher Grafschmidt who is a guitar player, musicologist and composer. He
