Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian guitarist who was active in the USA after 1940. He worked in Hollywood as a studio musician and has played the guitar part in many movies. For his record Girl von Ipanema he won a Grammy in 1964. Laurindo Almeida is also seen as the father of the Bossa-Nova. He …
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The TonArt Quartet is a profesional mandolin ensemble composed of Sabine Marz – mandolin Natalia Korsak – mandolin Nicholas Maretsky – mandola Marina Romeyko – piano This quartet has given a concert in the Philharmony in Minsk on October 24th 2014. A set of videos from this concert is available at youtube. The TonArt quartet …
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Yesterday I have found an article about the group MANdolinMAN, a mandolin quartet from Belgium in the German Wasser-Prawda blog, which presented their second CD with Brazilian music: MANdolinMAN – Plays Bossa Nova I was very curious and searched for the website of this group, where I have found previews of the new CD as …
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The first concert during our holiday in London was a free concert which took place in the National Portrait Gallery. Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas played a program with guitar music from Cuba by Leo Brouwer, Eduardo Martin and José Antonio (Ñico) Rojas Beoto. Ahmed Dickinson has transcribed may pieces by Nico Rojas and made those available for …