Mandolin Cafe Front Page Archive

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June 1

• Jared Pool is Episode #43 of The Mandolins and Beer podcast.
• Emory Lester is The Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #42.

May 28

• Mandolin Mondays #229: Adrian Gross of The Slocan Ramblers gives us some beautiful tones on his vintage Gibson mandola.
• Save on Matt Flinner summer courses by booking before May 31. Picking Intensive and Bluegrass and Swing Jamming courses start July 6-8.
• Mike Marshall brings a special Mandolin Mondays experience with his Artistworks students.

May 20

• Published three years ago today, the only surviving interview with Charlie Derrington about the repair of Monroe's mandolin.
• Feature Interview: Everything That Brought Me Here - Checking in with Greencards Founder Kym Warner.
• Mike Marshall's Virtual Mandolin Orchestra.
• The Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #41 is Jack Dunlap.
• New music by Kym Warner on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Now listing online & virtual mandolin workshops within our Workshops/Camps. Contact us with your virtual workshop to be listed.

May 12

• Sweden's Oskar Reuter stops by Mandolin Mondays with original Swedish folk music on his Vaña F5 Master Model.
• Eva Holbrook/Trout, AKA Lady Moon is the subject of a great feature by our friends at Weber Mandolins.
• The Mandolins and Beer Podcast #40 is Isaac Eicher.
• New original music just out: More of the Same by Julian Pinelli and Ethan Setiawan.
• New original music from Jack Dunlap: The Isolation Sessions.
• Mandolin Mondays: Josh Pinkham blows a Charlie Parker number out of the water with some crazy metronome antics and his Red Diamond mandolin.

May 2

• New original bluegrass music from the Red Chair Snappers on the Cafe MP3 page.
• From Weber Mandolins: meet lead luthier Ryan Fish.
• Our feature interview with 17 prominent businesses: Mandolin Builders and Retailers Share Their Pandemic Experience.
• The Mandolin Store's Dennis Vance approved for double transplant procedure.
• New: A Year with Raffaele Calace by Florian Klaus Rumpf.
• AJ Lee brings us a special Mandolin Mondays video with an original tune played on her 2001 Ray Webber mandolin.

April 27

• Are you ready to take on the Mandolin Cafe "Hidden Mandolin Players" crossword puzzle?
• New in print and audio: Jacob do Bandolim 2 - 2nd Edition.
• Tim O'Brien is Episode #38 of Mandolins and Beer podcast.
• This Fall: Great Lakes Music Camp Announces 2020 Lineup for 4th Annual Camp.
• New music coming from Nate Lee in June: Wings of a Jetliner.
• Fantastic read and a person we instantly admire: There is no Megan without an instrument around.
• A new reality: Mandolin Artists Share Their Pandemic Experience.
• New original music from the band Turkeyfoot on the Cafe MP3 page.

April 20

• Ariel Wyner of the Ruta Beggars joins us on Mandolin Mondays to play some rag music on his powerful Ellis A model mandolin.
• Replay: watch Aaron Weinstein's virtual mandolin workshop put on by Peghead Nation.
• Launching: Mangus Zetterlund's Mandolin Secrets Academy.
• The Mandolins and Beer Podcast #37 features Baron Collins-Hill of Mandolesson.com.
• Mandolin Mondays #223: Italian classical mandolinist Dorina Frati plays Victor Kioulaphides' "Idillio" on her Calace Raffaele Modello Classico mandolin.

April 15

• Can you stand the heat: commentary on the new sauces and dry marinade from Frank Solivan.
• Our friends at Morgan Music have launched a new web site. Like their mandolin page.
• Don Julin is Episode #36 of The Mandolins and Beer podcast.
• Godspeed, John Prine.
• This Wednesday: A Virtual Festival Mandolin Workshop with Andrew Collins, David Benedict, Adrian Gross and Joe K. Walsh.

April 9

• Mandolin Mondays #222: Mandolin Rajesh, one of the premier mandolinist of India graces us with a beautiful improv over brother U. Shrinivas' composition with his custom 5-string electric mandolin.
• New music by Dylan McCarthy and his new album Lost & Found on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Tim Connell is the guest on this week's Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #35.
• First video of the new Goodlettsville TN location of The Mandolin Store.
• A revolutionary step forward in pick technology just announced: GreenChip Picks by BlueChip.

April 1

• Mandolin Mondays: Caleb Lindsey joins us with "Panhandle Rag" with his Weber Bitterroot F.
• Andy Statman is the subject of the Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #34.
• Solo debut recording from Dylan McCarthy announced: Lost & Found.
• Subscribe to the Northfield Mandolin channel on YouTube right here. Amazing videos!
• Get free classical mandolin lessons from Caterina Lichtenberg!
• Happy 75th birthday, David Grisman!
• Instagram takeover at Tunefox with Jacob Jolliff.

March 25

• A little bit of Marla Fibish mandolin music courtesy Peghead Nation is a good way to start of the week.
• Mandolin Mondays #220: Bryce Milano plays a special composition entitled "Quarantune" on his Michael Heiden 2005 M01.
• New recording: Beethoven and his Contemporaries by Neapolitan mandolinist Raffaele La Ragione and fortepianist Marco Crosetto.

March 20

• New from Caleb Christopher Edwards - Metamorphosis.
• A Kickstarter for Ethan Setiawan's band Corner House.
• Andy Leftwich is this week's guest on the Mandolins and Beer Podcast, Episode #33.
• New Peghead Nation course plus get first month free on a monthly subscription, or $20 off annual.
• We Banjo 3's Martin Howley delivers some burning Irish triplets on his Collings MF5 for Mandolin Mondays.
• Presenting the Mandolin Cafe's Time Wasters resource. You've been warned.
• It trying times, we don't make lemonade out of lemons, we just eat lemons. Presenting the Mandolin Cafe's Time Wasters resource. You've been warned.

March 15

• Episode #32 of Mandolins and Beer podcast is Lauren Price.
• Tristan Scroggins' new book Old Time Fiddle Tune Favorites discussed in a Bradley Laird Grass Talk Radio podcast.
• New music from Jimmy Ryan's Nocturnal Adoration Society on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Now live at Peghead Nation: Bluegrass Mandolin Fingerboard Method with Sharon Gilchrist.
• Hannah Johnson is our Mandolin Mondays guest this week to play a soulful and mournful original tune on her Gibson-made Flatiron Festival F5.
• New in print & digital: Wohlfahrt Violin Studies Arranged for Mandolin.

March 9

• New in print - Old Time Fiddle Tune Favorites by Tristan Scroggins.
• Paul Glasse is the guest on this week's Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #31.
• Feature: Sierra Hull in Concert at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago.
• Mandolin Mondays: Carolina Blue resident mandolinist Timmy Jones plays some fire on this original tune with his gorgeous Gilchrist F5 mandolin.
• Launching soon at Peghead Nation: Bluegrass Mandolin Fingerboard Method with Sharon Gilchrist.

March 3

• Important one about sustainability: Sustainability and your Weber mandolin, from Weber Mandolins.
• New from David Surette: French and Italian Tunes for Mandolin and Fiddle.
• New music by the great Colorado band Chain Station on the Cafe MP3 page.
• 12 year-old William Lawson has been named the winner of the Monroe Mandolin Camp Video Scholarship Competition.

February 28

• New in print and digital: Lively Mandolin Tunes by Tommy Norris. Purchase.
• Back by popular demand: Red Hot Strings Workshop, Port Townsend, Wash., May 20-24.
• Mandolins and Beer Podcast #30 is Caleb Klauder of Foghorn Stringband.
• 45% off all titles from Bradley Laird. Use Discount Code leapyear. Good through midnight Feb. 29.
• New in print from August Watters: New Solos for Classical Mandolin: Concert Repertoire for Practice & Performance. Pre-order from amazon.com.

February 20

• 2020 Alan Bibey Mandolin Camp announced.
• Registration for the epic, one-of-a-kind Marshall Mandolin Summit has opened.
• Joe K. Walsh and Scott Nygaard play "Watson Blues" for our listening enjoyment at Peghead Nation.
• Mandolin Cafe News: Tristan Scroggins and Steve Kritzer Lead This Year's California Coast Music Camps.
• A very good watch: Tom Bedell's TED talk on sustainable woods.
• Mandolin Mondays #216: Adam Wright the group Act of Congress brings us a tasty original on his 2008 Collings MF.

February 16

• Congratulations Adrian C., winner in the Eastman E6D Guitar Giveaway from Sun Valley Guitars that ended this morning!
• Andrew Collins is the guest on this week's episode of Mandolins and Beer podcast!
• Registration in the Eastman E6D Guitar Giveaway from Sun Valley Guitars has ended. Winning entry announced soon.
• Mandolin Cafe News: Weber Announces Three New Models for 2020.
• Enter to win this Eastman E6D Guitar, courtesy our friends at Sun Valley Guitars.
• Tristan Scroggins and Casey Campbell lead mandolin tracks at this year's Camp Tunefox.
• Mandolin Mondays #215: Johanna Buggay from The Band Jubilee brings some Celtic fire.

February 10

• Walker Creek Spring Music Camp will feature Joe K. Walsh, Tim Connell, and Richie Brown.
• The Mandolin Store is moving just outside of Nashville in the Spring.
• Wonderful interview with Elderly Instruments' Lillian Werbin.
• Just announced: Marshall Mando Summit sponsored by Northfield Mandolins with Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg, David Benedict, Don Stiernberg, and Choro das 3.
• Special at Mel Bay: in celebration of 10 years in print, 30% off The Mandolin Picker's Guide To Bluegrass Improvisation. Use Discount Code IMPROV30.
• Starts Tuesday! Eastman E6D Guitar Giveaway from Sun Valley Guitars, Eastman, and the Mandolin Cafe.
• Mandolin Cafe News: John Reischman Returns to Lead 2nd Annual Roots and Boots Music Camp.

February 3

• June 22-28: Choro Camp New England returns to Northampton, Mass.
• Mandolin Mondays #214: Mandolins and Beer podcast host Daniel Patrick brings an original cross-tuned composition.
• Listen and learn about the new video just released by SHEL.
• You can now follow ZETA Mandolins on Facebook.
• Sublime: Aaron Weinstien's interpretation of the great jazz tune Guilty.
• Bluegrass legend Doyle Lawson is Episode #26 of the Mandolins and Beer podcast.
• Mike Compton, Jesse Brock, Lauren Price Napier and Casey Campbell: Monroe Mini Mandolin Camp in Nashville announced for April 4-5.
• New music just released: Julien Martineau and Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Beethoven Suites.

January 30

• Mandolin Mondays #213: make way for Czech Republic mandolin legend Radim Zenkl!
li>Our feature article about a Grammy nominated band: Photo Shoot: Grammy Nominee Po' Ramblin' Boys.
• In beautiful Ontario, Canada this July: Sixth annual Old School Bluegrass Camp 2020 Announced.
• Steve Carlson of Zeta Mandolins weighs in about his new product line.
• In the Boston burbs, a youth summer camp we can get behind: String Traditions Summer Day Program Near Boston Announced.

January 21

• A video from our friends at Weber: Weber Mandolins at the 2020 Winter NAMM Show.
• New music from Marla Fibish just released: The Bright Hollow Fog.
• What a difference a few years make: from 2016, our Sierra Hull - Weighted Mind Interview.
• Mandolin Mondays #212: John Cloyd Miller brings us a bit of klezmer-grass played on his The Bluegrass mandolin.
• Steve Carlson once again building acoustic mandolins just announced at NAMM.
• Our 2020 NAMM Show report, live from the floor.
• Mike Compton and Joe Newberry deliver "Last Chance" in the Peghead Nation studios. That's fine!
• At this week's NAMM Show: Weber Fine Acoustic Instruments Rolls Out New Models.

January 13

• An invitation to show your interest in this year's NAMM Show.
• Announcing the 7th Annual Jim Richter Mandolin Camp For the Rest of Us, July 8-11 in Bloomington, Ind. featuring Don Julin.
• Darren Nicholson of Balsam Range stops by Mandolin Mondays for a spin on a Judy Garland classic with his lovely Duff Mandolin.
• Registration, with early bird discounts, has opened for the 7th annual Monroe Mandolin Camp.

January 1

• Tristan Scroggins launches subscription based educational site for mandolin players.
• Nashville-based young mandolinist Nate Burie finishes off this year of Mandolin Mondays with a classic fiddle tune.
• Make plans now: 20th Edition Carlo Aonzo Mandolin Workshop.
• Published one year ago today, our blockbuster collection of Ten Essential Bill Monroe Features.
• Virginia mandolin legend Danny Knicely is here to spread some Charlie Brown Christmas cheer on Mandolin Monday.
• Jake Jolliff announces his departure from Yonder Mountain String band effective at the end of the year.