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A number of years ago a friend, Chuck DeHart who had completed a guitar school and had much talent built me a flat top "Octave Mandolin" with a 20 inch neck, hoping to be an "easy picker" for celtic...

In 1994 there was a fun movie called "Blink" which grafted a partly blind Madeline Stowe onto the real (Chigago -I think) Irish "Pub Celtic" band The Drovers, as the fiddler. Also included Aidan...

So excited I misspelled Don Stiernberg, Caterina Lichtenberg- sorry-'though suspect it's not the first time.

What a great time! It was perhaps my favorite camp experience out of many. I did focus on the lessons rather than the jamming, and boy I got my money’s worth. I took intermediate bluegrass with...

Well, my wife and I did Nash Camp last summer and had a great time, really "intimate" setting, Cindy the organizer is a champ. The band thing is indeed great fun, Matt Flinner an excellent laid back...

Been to many Augustas and love the environment and the multitude of other arts and music going on, You do have to realize that you are working primarily with the one main teacher of your choice,...

Spending the summer trying to learn Herschels "Rebecca" with variants by the man himself and Butch B. Ironically a Butch transcription from camp is actually closer to what H.S. usually plays than...

I am so excited about having the Vinyl version of this record that I embarked on a major refurbishment of a classic great Sota turntable (incredible auction find) that was sitting on the shelf to...

Really look forward to my 4th Gathering. (It's been quite a while, all the others were Irish/Celtic weeks). Since then my musical taste and ambition (if not talent) has expanded to include all the...

I just opened a copy that I had purchased from Amazon a few months ago and the CD is defective. I emailed MB but have not heard back yet. Just FYI.

Been a while since I have been back to The Swannanoa Gathering but it is really nicely done and this week is drawing me back to attempt way more stuff than I can possibly absorb! David, maybe we can...

Many years ago, at an Ashokan camp "Northern Week" I had the opportunity to take Johns course on Irish mandolin. I was new to mandolin and enthralled with the Mick Moloney/Seamus Egan style (still...

Thanks Ed for that thoughtful comment and background.

Most of us (at least on the Mandolin Cafe!) DO have a reasonable "moral compass" and want to see songwriters fairly paid. However when enough people see a system that time and again does not...

My mom lives in Galloway Ridge at Ferrington, nice place all around. I get down there (from Virginia) and to see my sistey in Cary every few months and will try to check out the new place, and drop...

I really appreciate the sharing of this news ( I assume of course the information was publicized with their permission). It will allow those of us who have taken his workshops or met Herschel and...

Maybe we, and any others interested could meet up before the music kicks off Sunday to say hi and pick a bit. I'll PM you closer to date and we know more about our exact schedules. There might be ...

The Festy schedule is up, and fortunately for me Dawg and Co. play Sunday eveing along with Infamous String Dustmops. :)
Additonal mando content includes, on Friday "Love Canon" a local group that...

I hope to be there Fri. and Sunday. I have wedding to go to Saturday, bad timing but it involves a lot of musicians so should be fun. Of the groups at Festy I was not familiar with, I really like...

I was there for first time last month to go to “Nashcamp” (great fun). We caught Donna Ulisse at the “Douglas Corner Café”, another little hole in the wall with a nice stage. You might check their...

By coincidence, I was just poking around looking for side projects that Mr. Reischman has been associated with and came across this: http://www.ebma.nl/general/master.php?pn=cd-10YearsEwob related to...

P.S. Tom Espinola used to teach at The House of Musical Traditions in your area, and I think of him as a "musicians musican" who knows his way around all aspects of the mando. If I had done what he...

For what it's worth I agree with Alex and Crabgrass that there is a nitch waiting to be filled, I certainly got some good stuff to work on from Matt Flinner at Nashcamp in the above categories, and...

Oops sorry. "Tape recorder" was this archaic thing with funny strips of “tape” that preceded the “digital recording device of your choice”.

Many good answers, for me a helpful launch was "go to camp"! On the East Cost for Irish its Augusta and Swannanoa, there are I think equivalents on the West coast. You get to study with a great...