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Alison Stephens – Mandolinist, Composer, Teacher – A Great Loss for the Mandolin World

The great British mandolinist Alison Stephens has died on October 10, 2010. She was only 40 years old. Alison Stephens was the leading British mandolinist. She has played the mandolin part for many performances in Britain and all over the world and appeared in many BBC broadcasts. Alison has recorded several great CDs with different […]

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Rainbow Quest – Pete Seeger and Guests – Great Folk Music from the 1960s

Pete Seeger has produced the Rainbow Quest series of TV shows in 1965 and 1966. This is a great documentation about the folk music of the 60s. I found this when I searched for videos of Richard Farina, and I have watched some other episodes too. Those videos show many singers, songwriters, folk bands, bluegrass

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Mimi and Richard Farina – The Mountain Dulcimer / Appalachian Dulcimer

By a tweet I was led to a blog post about the music of Richard and Mimi Fariña. In this blog post Neal Hellman tells about his passion about the Mountain Dulcimer or Appalachian Dulcimer, whow he wrote his first book about the dulcimer and after some time also found a publisher for this project.

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Penelope Houston – Autoharp and L. A. Punk

I heard some tracks from Penelope Houston’s CD Cut You in a local independent radio station many years ago. The voice of Penelope Houston, and the arrangements with autoharp and also mandolin in several tracks made my buy this CD, and since then I have listened to it now and then. There are some youtube

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Songbook Choro – A GINGA DO MANÉ (JACOB DO BANDOLIM) – Violão Tenor

The choro A Ginga do mané is the first choro contained in the songbook choro. On my homepage some time ago I have started a project to present all the 97 choros from the songbook choro with youtube videos and more interesting information. Now again I have started to work on this project, and I

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Show of Hands – Steve Knightley and Phil Beer – “The finest acoustic roots duo in England”

I have a very old mandolin record by Phil Beer that I have bought many years ago, but I did not hear anything about Phil Beer since I bought this record. Now a just found a note about Show of Hands who are touring through the north of Germany, and found out, that Show of

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Raffaele Calace – Rhapsodia Napoletana for Mandolin and Piano – Yasunobu Inoue Japan

I have just discovereda new video with the Rhapsodia Napoletana by Raffaele Calace. Yasunobu Inoue plays this Rahpsodia on a mandolin built by Calace in 1926. Calace used several famous Neapolitan songs in this Rhapsodia – you will definitively recognize some of the songs. Yasunobu Inoue was born in 1975. He has successfully taken part

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Guitar Quartet and Guitar Duo from Brazil with many interesting Videos

Guitar Quartet – Quarteto Abaruna Accidentally I have found the youtube channel of the Quarteto Abaruma from Brazil. In this channel you can find many videos of concerts of the Quarteto Abaruna and the Abaruma Guitar Duo. Unfortunately the titles of the different tunes are not noted in the video, but the programs contain pieces

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Paulo Flores & Cambanda Jazz Combo – Some Choros from Brazil

The following videos show the documentation of a concert with some choro tunes played by Paulo Flores & Cambanda Jazz Combo. It shows some historic recordings and the new versions. I liked those 4 videos very much. In the last video the choro Boneca is played, a choro that I have just added to my

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Historical Recordings with Mandolin (Antique Phonograph Music Program)

Beside the Cylinder Preservation Project about which I have recently written in my blog I have found some other historical recordings. A radio staion in New York has a weekly feature with historical recordings played from Edison-cylinders and other old recordings on the original devices. I have found the following recordings with mandolin. Those broadcasts

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