John Reischman is one of my favorite mandolin players – I love the sound that he produces with his great Lloyd Loar mandolin. A recent podcast of the CBC presents a concert with John Reischman and the Jaybirds Mandolin master John Reischman and his band the Jaybirds play upbeat, foot-stomping bluegrass in this concert from […]
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Music is a littlebit – Image is everything! This three piece ukulele band from Norway has 4 nice videos. I have not found more information about this band, so just enjoy the videos of the Jumping Fleas: The Jumping Fleas ukulele band – Teaser The Jumping Fleas ukulele band – Aksjon The Jumping Fleas ukulele
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Marijke and Michiel Wiesenekker are the Amsterdams Mandoline en Gitaar Duo. I have met them several times during the last years – sometimes together with there parents – and it has always been a great fun and experience to jam with them until late at night. Marijke has studied mandolin in Wuppertal, and Michiel has
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Recently I have found the homepage of the famous Prairie Home Companion Radio Show. It is possible to listen to the complete shows from previous years in the archive. On the page I found a link to the interview with Sara Watkins. Sara Watkins was a member of the famous bluegrass band Nickel Creek with
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Peter Ostroushko is a mandolin player and composer – and he is one of my favorite mandolin players. So I am very happy that I have found a recent interview with Peter Ostroushko on the site of the Prairie Home Companion. Interview with Peter Ostroushko 2010 (Prairie Home Companion) http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/interviews/ostroushko_peter_2010/ In this interview Peter Ostroushko
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A German Blog has just written about an interview that David Grisman has made with Chris Thile in 2008 Interview mit den beiden Mandolinen-Virtuosen David Grisman und Chris Thile http://www.gitarrengurte.de/blog/?p=1169 This is an interesting post with a lot of informations about David Grisman and Chris Thile. The Interview was published in the Fretboard Journal in
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Joseph Rico (1876-1957) was a composer from Napoli at the beginning of the 20th century who is famous for his slow waltzes. But he has also published a series of collections for the mandolin. I do possess 5 books with compositions for the mandolin by Joseph Rico and I have just made a video with
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I am just listening to the latest Canada Live podcast featuring Land of Talk – a Canadian indie rock band: Indie-rock band Land of Talk is joined by special guests from The Besnard Lakes for this hot concert recorded at the Segal Centre in Montreal. From Wikipedia: Land of Talk is a Canadian indie rock
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Some time ago I have found a nice video with a mandolin version of a piece with titel Tango en Skai played by the Japanese mandolin player Kozo Onishi. I had not heard this piece before, but I liked it immediately. This is one of the two videos of Tango en Skai by Kozo Onishi
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By twitter I have heard about this two videos that were made from a concert of the Langendorfer Zupforchester, the mandolin orchestra from Langendorf in Germany – given in Japan some days ago. On the homepage of the Langendorfer Mandolineorchesters you can find some information about the friendship between this German mandolin orchestra and Japan.
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