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The Oldest Mandolin Orchestras – Worldwide (Paul Ruppa)

Paul Ruppa has written the following article for the Mandolin Journal of the Classical Mandolin Society of America (CMSA). To make this article available for the mandolin community he asked me to publish it in my blog. Using the internet three years ago, I began to build a list of the oldest active mandolin orchestras …

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The Sound of the American Mandolin

The following video has recently been uploaded to youtube. 2018 North Carolina Heritage Award recipient Tony Williamson is a visionary musician, composer, musical instrument expert, teacher and mentor. He has played stringed instruments, most famously mandolin, for six decades and has been receiving awards and honors for his music for nearly 50 of those years. …

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The “Wreck of the Old 97” and other Songs of Virginia Tragedies

On twitter I have found a tweet about an online exhibition about Songs of Virginia Tragedies which can be found on the homepage of the Blueridge Institute: Deathly Lyrics: Songs of Virginia Tragedies (link no more available) A story told in song, the ballad has for centuries been a means for passing history from one …

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