{"id":5694,"date":"2014-06-06T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:30:36","slug":"simon-mayor-and-the-mandolinquents-great-mandolin-music-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=5694","title":{"rendered":"Simon Mayor and the Mandolinquents &#8211; Great Mandolin Music from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Mayor<\/strong> is maybe the most active mandolin player in the UK. He plays everything from classical music to bluegrass. Simon has also releases many instructional books and mandolin methods.<\/p>\n<p>I have found the following video of the famous <strong>Minute Waltz<\/strong> some months ago, it was filmed during a Christmas concert. This video shows that Siman has a lot of humour, it is one of the funniest mandolin videos that I know:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Simon Mayor &amp; The Mandolinquents &#8216;Minute Waltz&#8217;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon Mayor &amp; The Mandolinquents  &#039;Minute Waltz&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUyxFMy8KMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Simon Mayor &amp; the Mandolinquents live at New Greenham Arts. Band members Simon Mayor &amp; Gerald Garcia attempt a serious rendition of Chopin&#8217;s Minute Waltz in the face of some seasonal silliness from Richard Collins.<\/p>\n<p>The Mandolinquents play everything from hot swing and ragtime instrumentals from the mandolin orchestras of the 1930s: Irving Berlin, Mozart, Ravel and Tchaikovsky to lively reels and beautiful traditional Irish airs to Chinese and Brazilian folk tunes. All this played with infectious fun, off-beat humour and stunning virtuosity on mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass and classical guitar, with the occasional burst of song or fiddle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simon has just released a new CD.<\/p>\n<p>I have compiled a large playlist with videos with Simon Mayor, including solo performances and performances with his band <strong>The Mandolinquents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ich habe eine umfangreiche Playliste erstellt mit Videos mit Simon Mayor, allein und zusammen mit seiner Gruppe The Mandolinquents. Viel Spass beim Ansehen!<\/p>\n<h4>Playlist Simon Mayor<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon Mayor and the Mandolinquents 2013\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo-8C2pYZLO_Z2yjFA9vxTRC\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Aditional Information<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandolinquents&#8217; website: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mandolinquents.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mandolinquents.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.mandolinquents.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Simon Mayor&#8217;s website: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mandolin.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mandolin.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.mandolin.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hilary James&#8217; website: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.folksong.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.folksong.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.folksong.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gerald Garcia&#8217;s website: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Label &#8211; Acoustics Records <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.acousticsrecords.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acousticsrecords.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.acousticsrecords.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Mayor is maybe the most active mandolin player in the UK. He plays everything from classical music to bluegrass. Simon has also releases many instructional books and mandolin methods. I have found the following video of the famous Minute Waltz some months ago, it was filmed during a Christmas concert. This video shows that 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