Search:

The Donnie Pack mentioned in the article runs the Dellview Music School two blocks (really!) from my house. He has given lessons to half the guitar players in San Antonio. And that is a LOT of...

cool breezes playing
the waning days of summer
hot mando pickin'

Summer oozing past,
A quiet ritardando
The last few measures.

It gave me some satisfaction to walk off the stage following our second number and say, "What happened to the capo on that last song?"

"D'oh!"

Thank you Becky Smith for teaching me to play in...

That's the way my old girlfriend used to prepare them. It is a lot of work, very time consuming, right up there with shelling black-eyed peas, but the final product is delicious.

I read that they...

Class during the day,
Jamming 'til dawn's early light.
Where was time for sleep?

Camp Bluegrass was great!
Dedicated to Monroe
In his hundredth year.

Unless perhaps it is this one from the same issue:

89176

From the July 9th and 16th, 2012, issue of The New Yorker:

89175

It was listed in the "Full July" notice of camps and workshops, but I was surprised that no one had started a thread this year touting it. Lots of folks from nearby New Mexico there, and Steve Smith...

I'm burning up highway tomorrow headed for Levelland and Camp Bluegrass 2012, George Wilson riding shotgun. The focus of the camp this year is, of course, Bill Monroe's 100th birthday, and Joe Carr...

School districts all across south Texas westward to southern California have mariachi programs that are predominantly strings. Guitaron, guitar, vihuela, harp, and of course, violin all are...

I was (covered) porch pickin' my Ludewig Emory Lester model three days ago and it was 106˚. Perspiration got it a little sticky, so the next day when it was 108˚, I played my Mix A4. Both performed...

I must be just old enough to wonder why a scooter company would branch into mandolins? :grin:

They sound like they are fine instruments, but I have never seen or heard one. The name just grabs...

On the mandolin
I'll play her a well-known tune...
Happy Birthday, Mom.

Assassination
Or "Beware the Ides of March"
Julius Caesar

Glad Julius wrote
Salad dressing recipe...

New Year's Eve is here
Two Thousand Twelve tomorrow...
Where has the time flown?

Gentle rain falling
Inspiring mando haiku...
Maintenance disrupts.

Advent tomorrow...
Hints of Christmas in the air
Blown by cold north winds.

i only got to go for the first night. Rich Hartness and the Pickled Beats were fun. Lots of contra dancing with extra vigorous stomping. Ben was there with his musical partner (who I do not know;...

God bless you, Joe. Get well soon.

Better ninty-one
Than one hundred eleven
Degrees in the shade.

Thirty-three degrees
And forty-four degrees C
For you metric types.

These haiku composed
Utilizing a MacBook...

What a surprise to see this resurrected.

I still keep a mandolin behind my desk, a souped-up Draleon Royale. The Selmer-style body fits in better with guitars used for mariachi. Played Selena's...

Latino USA with Maria Hinojosa, which might be heard on your local NPR station, aired an extensive segment on choro this week (21 Sep 2011). Mike Marshall was interviewed for part of the piece, and...

This summer at Camp Bluegrass, Joe said that this was the book he was most proud of. He said he wanted it to be the Bible of Monroe-style playing, the definitive resource. If he had had any for...

You are in a unique geographic position not too far from either Austin or San Antonio. Austin has a weekly jam Sunday afternoon at Artz Rib House on S. Lamar. There are jams sponsored by Fiddler's...

Heat waves rippling...
My mandolin's sound ripples
Blown on by the fan.

The playing better comes with the playing more that comes with hat ownership. :grin:

The hat actually works as an identifier of mandolin devotees. On vacation last week, I had an employee of...