{"id":8644,"date":"2018-04-26T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2018-04-26T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:20:33","slug":"andrew-collins-trio-a-musical-fusion-of-classical-to-bluegrass-folk-with-jazz-swing-with-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Collins Trio – A musical fusion of classical to bluegrass, folk with jazz, swing with Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have first discovered Andrew Collins<\/strong> on the coolmandolin website where he had allowed his music to be played for the visitors. He belongs to the most interesting mandolin players that I know.<\/p>\n

Andrew Collins founded his Andrew Collins Trio<\/strong> some years ago. Each of the three musicians plays several instruments. Andrew Collins plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar, mandola and mandocello, Mike Mezzatesta plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle and mandola and James McEleney plays bass and mandocello.<\/p>\n

When they are on tour they take with them up to 13 instruments. The style of the trio is difficult to describe, its a musical fusion of classical to bluegrass, folk with jazz, swing with Celtic. Andrew Collins says that the trio gives him much freedom when playing and a lot of space to be filled.<\/p>\n

The Andrew Collins Trio has just published a new double-CD tounge groove<\/strong>. CD 1 named Tounge<\/strong> contains 11 songs, while CD 2 named Groove<\/strong> contains eight instrumentals.<\/p>\n

The previous CD And It Was Good<\/strong> was based on the biblical story Genesys about the creation of the World in seven days. For this CD the trio was joyned by a string quartet.<\/p>\n

This trio can sound like a Bluegrass band, like a Jazz trio, but also like a classical plucked strings ensemble.<\/p>\n

Promotional Video about the Andrew Collins Trio<\/h4>\n