Women with Mandolins

[journeybear]

I also found another old-style mandolin combo. I wonder if that hairstyle is ever going to make a comeback?

[Patrick Hull]

Sort of has that Princess Leia thing going....

[Django Fret]

I also found another old-style mandolin combo. I wonder if that hairstyle is ever going to make a comeback?

That picture was posted way back in #86 so I guess it did make a comeback after all.

Here are two pics of Kerry Claxon.

[journeybear]

That picture was posted way back in #86 so I guess it did make a comeback after all.

Ouch!

Here's a modern mandolin quartet - the Catatonic Mandolin Quartet - and another ensemble, Any Old Time String Band. Didn't catch anyone's names, sorry ...

[chasray]

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7211966

a girl with her weber

[MANDOLINMYSTER]

Awesome pictures!

[chasray]

who is ollabelle?

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4828641

[chasray]

this is my favorite lady on the mando

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5756518

[JEStanek]

Ollabelle has a website! Bluesey music. nice. She plays mandola by the way. She is Amy Helm.

Jamie

[Mike Bunting]

Ollabelle has a website! Bluesey music. nice. She plays mandola by the way. She is Amy Helm.

Jamie

And her Daddy is Levon Helm, she plays some on his latest CD, Dirt Farmer.

[mrmando]

Looks like she plays, among other things, a Rigel R200:

[journeybear]

I remember seeing the name Ollabelle about ten years ago, when I was writing for a music magazine in CT. I had the fortune to encounter Elena Skye, founder/leader of Demolition String Band, then based in NYC, now Hoboken. She is a former punk rocker turned country - quite something to see her belting out genuine country while wearing stilletos heels, fishnet stockings, and miniskirt - with a big voice that belies her petite frame. She plays guitar and mandolin, and Boo Reiners plays some fine twangy guitar and baritone guitar.

I used to get gig notices and they kept mentioning Ollabelle - but I can't remember now if they meant the band or Olla Belle Reed, the inspiration for the band's name. What caught my attention with DSB, beside the aforementioned voice, dress, and musicianship, was their willingness to push the envelope while also keeping it real. The best example of this is their bluegrass version of my favorite Madonna song, "Like A Prayer." It is really slamming. Nice to see they're still at it after all this time, just got their fourth album out. That's NY's Rodeo Bar, where they play most often. I'm tickled to see they played at Grey Fox last year. Good for them!

Glad to have my memory jogged. Good ol' Mandolin Café!

[Django Fret]

Here are a few of Delnora Reed from Blue Eyed Grass

[JeffD]

This from the Menton Musical Festival. Menton, France.

[journeybear]

Linda Eskin - Abigail Alfano - Lewi Tort (?)

More than that I do not know ...

[Scott Tichenor]

Framed next to my PC, from November, 1946, the exceptional talents of artist Alberto Vargas:

[journeybear]

I thought you meant this Vargas oeuvre, but now I see it's February.

[Paul Kotapish]

. . . Any Old Time String Band. Didn't catch anyone's names, sorry ...

Any Old Time String Band were one of the few revival string bands of the '70s and '80s that featured an all-women lineup. They were great then, and they all continue to play great music in new configurations. Every now they do a much-appreciated reunion show, which is where these photos were taken. They recorded two LPs--one for Arhoolie and one for Bay--available together on a reissue on Arhoolie.

The lineup was:

Kate Brislin - banjo, guitar & vocals, Susie Rothfield - fiddle & vocals, Sue Draheim - fiddle & vocals, Genny Haley - banjo, guitar & vocals, Barbara Montoro - bass (1978 session), Valerie Mindel - bass & guitar (1980 session)

That's Valerie on the mandolin in the photos above (and Steven Strauss-not Barbara Montoro--on bass).

[Django Fret]

Hannah Blaylock and Lost & Found's Cherrill Green with her mandolins.

[journeybear]

La mademoiselle de Menton looks so serious, I thought I would share some other serious looking players.

Clearly to some people music is not all fun and games. It takes dedication and concentration. Still, I hope they are enjoying themselves!

[Bertram Henze]

La mademoiselle de Menton looks so serious, I thought I would share some other serious looking players.

Clearly to some people music is not all fun and games. It takes dedication and concentration. Still, I hope they are enjoying themselves!

As the Romans said: per aspera ad astra (through rough times to the stars). Concentration distorts the nicest people's faces. On most occasions, they smile when it's over.

I am said to scowl at people while playing - photos seem to confirm this...

Bertram

[journeybear]

Stretching the limits of this thread a bit - this is a woman with a mandolinist - but since it's Joan Baez it seemed noteworthy.

As the writer says: As local legend has it, Joan Baez once lived over the carousel in the hippodrome, and lo and behold, there she was, back at her old stomping grounds sharing how she and her friends, more often than not, would sleep in bean bag chairs.

I am trying to picture where in that building she would be living, but it's a good story anyway.

[journeybear]

Some more paintings:

1) Young Woman With A Mandolin - Vekoslav Karas
---That is the deepest bowl on a bowlback I've ever seen. Imagine the sustain ...

2) Woman With Mandolin - Georges Braque
---I swear there are a woman and a mandolin in there ... somewhere ...

3) Woman With Mandolin - Auguste Renoir - Cigarette Case ID Holder Wallet
---This painting had been posted earlier in this thread, but now it is available at amazon as a cigarette case etc, for only $9.99.

You can also get a Woman With Mandolin - Pablo Picasso - Cigarette Case and Woman With Mandolin - Pablo Picasso - MOUSE PAD, each for only $9.99, but the artwork is just a bit too representational for this forum.

[billhay4]

Journeybear,
Are you sure that's a mandolin with Joan Baez? If so, it's the biggest one I've ever seen (or the smallest mandolinist).
Bill

[journeybear]

Are you sure that's a mandolin with Joan Baez? If so, it's the biggest one I've ever seen (or the smallest mandolinist).

Ha! Trick photography!

No, that would be a left-handed octave mandolin, or maybe mandocello. Sure is a whopper, and a beaut.

BTW, I believe that is her son playing the cajon in the back.