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Inaugural Choro Camp Announced

Choro Camp New England Features Elisa Meyer and Tim Connell

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Classifieds

Twenty most recent Classified Ads of 1407 current ads and 135767 since inception.

02/22: Mandolins - Are We Ready To Have Some Fun
02/21: Guitars - Kratzer Guitar (Cedar) Style 5-18 Marty Robbins Gu...
02/21: Guitars - WTB: Pre-War Guitars Co 000 (Or Om)
02/21: Mandolins - Bulldog / Kratzer F5 Style Mandolin
02/21: Guitar Accessories - 40's / 50's Bull's Head Dread Case By Harptone $25...
02/21: Mandolins - Pomeroy A
02/21: Guitars - 1986 Martin D-16W
02/21: Mandolin Accessories - Hoffee Deluxe Forest Green w/Gold Lining & 3M ...
02/21: Mandolin Accessories - Calton Racing Green w/Gold Lining & Free Deliv...
02/21: Guitars - Used Huss And Dalton Ds-12 Custom
02/21: Banjos - 2015 Enoch Tradesman 12 Walnut Open Back Banjo
02/21: Guitars - 2016 Collings D1 Traditional Acoustic Dreadnought ...
02/21: Guitars - Atkin White Rice (Tony Rice Model)
02/21: Guitars - Fender 72 Thinline Reissue
02/21: Banjos - 2006 Prucha Bat Presentation Banjo
02/21: Accessories - Old & In The Way - Live At The Boarding House
02/21: Guitars - Epiphone Texan (1961)
02/21: Guitar Accessories - Two Bone Saddle Blanks
02/21: Guitar Accessories - Six Ivoroid Tuner Buttons
02/21: Mandolins - 2014 Collings MTO (Gloss Top-Waverly Tuners)

Forum

Twenty most recent Forum posts of 1,696,779 total. Bookmark with this tab open.

02/22 - Strings for 19" mandola
02/22 - Tim O'Brien
02/22 - 2019 Tune-A-Week Project
02/22 - Seven songs for Tres Cubano
02/22 - Mandolin Orange Live in Studio "New Sounds"
02/22 - fast rhythmic final strums of bluegrass songs?
02/21 - Interesting Loar copy on eBay
02/21 - Javonda Wilson: Bill Monroe and Friends: Inside the Life of Bill
02/21 - Kentucky KM-950
02/21 - New to the cafe
02/21 - L. Ricca Bowlback
02/21 - Would appreciate some opinions please.
02/21 - REPLACEMENT TUNERS FOR Km -150
02/21 - I need one of these
02/21 - Gibson F5 Identification Help
02/21 - Radim Zenkl Mandolin Workshops - Palo Alto, CA
02/21 - Grass Talk Radio GTR-104 - Homebrewing a Jam Session
02/21 - If you only knew it back then...
02/21 - Kelley F4 mandolin a/b comparison
02/21 - Alan Perdue RIP

News

Twenty most recent Mandolin Articles. Bookmark with this tab open.

Workshops

Mandolin Camps & Workshops of 135 total. Bookmark with this tab open.

Feb. 22-23 - Gardner Winter Music Festival Mandolin Workshop, Morgantown, WV
Feb. 22-24 - Winter Weekend 2019, Moultonborough, NH
Feb. 23 - Radim Zenkl Mandolin Workshops, Palo Alto, CA
Feb. 23 - Luke Plumb Mandolin and Bouzouki Workshop, New South Wales, Australia
Feb. 23 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Michael Jockel, Alsbach-Hahnlein, Germany
March 1-3 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Andy Lentz, Davis, CA
March 1-3 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Gilbert Nelson, Raleigh Durham, NC
March 1-3 - March Mandolin Festival, Concord, NH
March 1-3 - Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg with Sharon Gilchrist, Benicia, CA
March 3 - Beginning/Refresher Mandolin, Brasstown, NC
March 3-5 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Larry Kernagis, Big Bear Lake, CA
March 5 - April 23 - Wernick Method Jam Class with Larry Kernagis, Mt. Juliet, TN
March 10 - Steve Kaufman Mandolin Workshop, Chesapeake, VA
March 11 - April 29 - Wernick Method Jam Class with Barry Mitterhoff, Howell, NJ
March 20 - May 15 - Wernick Method Jam Class with Ron Perrty, Webster, NY
March 28 - April 13 - Savannah Music Festival Acoustic Music Seminar, Savannah, GA
March 30 - Metamora Mandolin Gathering, Metamora, IN
March 31 - April 4 - Simon Mayor Settle Mandolin Retreat, Settle, UK
April 5-7 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Larry Kernagis, Monteagle, TN
April 6 - 3rd Annual Mandolin Day with Mike Giverin, Frodsham, Cheshire UK

Interviews

Ten most recent Mandolin Cafe Interviews. Bookmark page with this tab open.

01/08/2019 - Changing Channels with Ashley Broder
12/11/2018 - Bill Malone is Still Digging in the Roots of Country Music
10/16/2018 - Andrew Marlin Comes Out From Under the Cloak
09/25/2018 - A Foundational Thing: Bluegrass and Beyond with Andrew Collins
08/28/2018 - Northfield Introduces Three New Michigan-Made Instruments
08/14/2018 - Martin Howley's Mandolin Journey with We Banjo 3
07/31/2018 - State of Grace - Finding Your Place with Adam Tanner
07/17/2018 - Playback - D'Addario's String Recycling In a Nutshell
07/10/2018 - The Song-A-Week Social Group - An Interview with Barbara Shultz
06/09/2018 - After 35 Years in Business Retrofret Moving to New Location
03/26/2018 - An Interview with Tunefox's Bennett Sullivan
03/12/2018 - A Conversation with Stan and Lillian Werbin
11/20/2017 - Emory Lester Interview
08/02/2017 - The 1988 Jethro Burns Interview
06/18/2017 - Jenni Lyn Gardner - Jenni Lyn Lights Up with Burn Another Candle
06/04/2017 - Bill Monroe Interview in Denver, Feb. 19, 1986
05/17/2017 - The Charlie Derrington Interview
05/14/2017 - Tim Connell Interview
05/08/2017 - Bill Monroe on the Farm Interview
04/30/2017 - Bill Monroe Receives his Mandolin from Gibson - The Video

Mandolin Mondays

Twenty most recent Mandolin Monday Videos. Bookmark page with this tab open.

Quick News

Good through February 27: 20% off all Mel Bay titles. Use Discount Code MB20.
First Annual Camp Tunefox Set for May 15-19 in Montreat, N.C. with Joe Walsh and Mike Compton.
A good read: The Weber Build: Part 1, by Michael Eck.
New original music from The Jack Dunlap Band on the Cafe MP3 page.
Inaugural Choro Camp New England Features Elisa Meyer and Tim Connell.
Get your Monroe with a twist for Mandolin Mondays #164 with Troy Boone. Fantastic!
Just what we needed: "Goodbye Liza Jane," Joe K. Walsh and Scott Nygaard.
Sierra Hull playing an Austin Clark octave on tour at the moment.
Congrats to builder Andrew Mowry, featured in a Bend, Oregon ezine.

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