Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all readers! If you have some time you can visit my Picksibition with pictures, postcard albums and more! http://www.mandoisland.de/picks.html God rest ye merry. gentlemen
Google Holiday Logo – The Arabian Lute Oud – Mahmoud Turkmani – Mohamed Abozekry
Google has included the search for the oud – the Arabian lute – to the Holiday Logo for Christmas 2010. It’s great that google has added this search for an inmportan plucked instrument that is played all over the Middle East. Wikipedia about the oud: The oud (Arabic: عود ʿūd, plural:أعواد, a‘wād; Assyrian:ܥܘܕ ūd, Persian:
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Vishtèn ✵ Great Acadian Folk and Step Dance
On the homepage of the Musical Instruments Museum I have found a video by the Acadian group Vishtèn who will play a concert in January in this museum. I was immediately hit by this video, and I decided to find out more about this group. Vishtèn was founded about 10 years ago and is located
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Punch Brothers On Mountain Stage – New Concert at NPR – Chris Thile on Mandolin
I am just listening to the Punch Brothers on Mountain Stage – a concert that is available at NPR: Punch Brothers On Mountain Stage http://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132203317/punch-brothers-on-mountain-stage Mandolin player Chris Thile is better known for his role in Nickel Creek, but in 2010, it was all about his new band, Punch Brothers, and the group’s second album,
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Remembering Butch Baldassari – The Fantastic Sound of the Mandolin
Almost one year has passed since Butch Baldassari died on January 10. In his latest BBC broadcast Mike Harding played a piece from the CD Travellers with Butch Baldassari, John Reischman and Robin Bullock, a very nice medley composed of the following three tunes: The Old French / The Wise Maid / Swinging On A
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The Tar – An Important Long Neck Lute from Persia, Azerbaijan and Armenia
If you need a break from the holiday music at the moment, maybe it is a good idea to listen to some music of a completely different culture. I have collected some videos with an instrument that is used in Persia, Azerbaijan and Armenia – the tar. There are many more interesting videos, including some
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A Minstrel Christmas – New Christmas-CD by the Freiburger Spielleyt
Since 1990 the Early Music Freiburg (Freiburger Spielleyt) have successfully played music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance with instruments like mediaval lute, barock lute, viola da gamba, harp, flute, hurdy gurdy, krummhorn, frame drum and many others. The members of the ensemble have met at the music university of Freiburg and the Schola
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Jingle Jams: A Holiday Mix From NPR Music * Christmas Joy and Christmas Blues
NPR has added two interesting Christmas playlists to their program. The forst one has been compiled from the favorite holiday songs from 10 different partner stations and includes all kind of music, from classical, pop, rap, bluegrass, jazz, folk, … It’s a seasonal tradition to gripe miserably about the ubiquity of holiday music — about
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The Washington Balalaika Orchestra – Concerts with Balalaika, Domra, Flute and other Russian Folk Instruments
Today I want to present the Washington Balalaika Orchestra. The concert given on Oct. 9 has been recorded and is available in five youtube videos. The orchestra was founded more than 20 years ago and is directed by Svetlana Nikonova since 2003. Today the Washington Balalika Society has the biggest balalaika orchestra in the USA,
The Deadly Gentlemen – Bluegrass, Americana – Free Download “Carry Me To Home”
The Deadly Gentlemen have recorded their first album “Carry Me To Home” – it was be released in January 2011. The complete album was available as a pre-release for free download from the bandcamp homepage – the only thing you had to do is to register for the band newsletter with your email address. I
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