Yesterday I have listened to another program of the Antique Gramophone Music Program with Mac – a program with a live band. Actually the East River String Band was represented by its two leaders Eden Brower and John Heneghan. This duet is regularly enlarged by several other musicians for concerts. Eden & John’s East River […]
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Hotel California by the Eagles belongs to the best and most played rock songs of our time. So it is no wonder that there are many videos of this song, including videos with guitars, mandolins and other interesting instruments. Last week I found this video with a great version of Hotel California played by four
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The Purple Hulls is the name of a young trio with Ben Clark and his sisters Penny and Katy. I enjoyed the videos of this group very much. The Purple Hulls are playing traditional bluegrass and own compositions in the traditional bluegrass style. Ben Clark lives in Nashville and has already played with stars like
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I have just found an article on LaGuitare.com with the presentation of a mandolin built by luthier Hervé Coufleau. This mandolin is highly decorated with mother of pearl inlays – a very special and beautiful instrument. The mandolin is is also shown on the myspace page of Hervé Coufleau: More picures and an article about
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The Duo “Esposito-Ameglio” has made available some videos from a concert given Jan. 29th 2011 in Gennaio. The program included works by Raffaele Calace for mandolin and piano, a beautifull Ave Maria by Caccini and the Concerto for Mandolin by Emanuele Barbella. Paola Esposito Born in Savona in 1978. She brilliantly concluded her mandolin studies
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A new interesting concert is available at the CBC – The Dardanelles is a five piece folk band from Newfoundland with mandolin or bouzouki, guitar, fiddle, accordeon, tin whistles and bodhran. Armed with an intense love of the music of their native home, and an energy found more often in three-piece rock bands than in
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This is a video, that every mandolin player should have seen. Russell Brand, famous British actor and husband of Katy Perry, has made this video for the BBC some time ago. He plays the famous Losing my Religion by R.E.M. an a mandolin that he finds laying around in a floor – but in the
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It’s the Craftsman, Not the Singer or the Song http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/arts/design/11heroes.html Guitars built by John D’Angelico, James D’Aquisto and John Monteleone are shown in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read about this exhibition in the New York Times: “Guitar Heroes,” an exceptionally interesting exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has nothing to
Today I decided to listen to the latest podcast of the Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC http://wfmu.org/playlists/AP On February 8th the Red Hook Ramblers – a Brooklyn based Dixieland band – played live in this show – some really great dixieland music. You can download this as a podcast, as mp3 or listen to
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Today I have found an article about a recent concert with Eliot Fisk in New York: Guitarist, in Charge, Plays Well With Others So I decided to collect some videos and information about this great guitar virtuoso of our time. Here is my playlist with some videos including pieces like Aria detta la Frescobalda by
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