Mandolin Cafe Front Page Archive

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Previous years: 2017

April 21

• New original music from the band Thanks For Waiting on the Cafe MP3 page.
• How this? A new jazz mandolin course featuring Aaron Weinstein coming to Peghead Nation!
• Allman Brothers Band member and all around guitar legend Jack Pearson is our Mandolin Mondays #172.
• Congrats to our friends at Elderly Instruments on the launch of their new web site, a massive undertaking!
• New music from David Benedict's album The Golden Angle on the Cafe MP3 page.

April 14

• At D'Addario: Enter to win an assortment of Grateful Dead goodies and gear! Five winners selected in all.
• New music from the new album by the great bluegrass band Mile Twelve on the Cafe MP3 page.
• New Mile Twelve album, City on a Hill now out. David Benedict brings us a transcription and video to break down the track "Rialto" for us!
• New from Don Julin at Tremolo Online, Playing The Changes: Major Triads.
• New in print from Pete Wernick and Liam Purcell: JAM Songbook.
• New classical mandolin music from Joel Hobbs & Jonathan Rudie on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mandolin Mondays #171, we welcome David Harvey playing the Gibson Hall Of Fame Mon F-5 prototype.

April 7

• From Don Julin: you should be paying attention to this man... What Goes Up... Must Go Down.
• New original jazz from Tom Wright just released: Tailwind.
• At D'Addario: Upgrade Your Humidipak free. Read about it here.
• New original music from The Many Beards on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mandolin Mondays #170: wow! Sir Paul McCartney!
• Introducing a new product whose time has arrived: Case Deodorant, help for smelly, old, musty cases!

April 1

• Red Hot Strings Workshop, a jazz-centric experience comes to Port Townsend, Wash. May 15-19.
• Our feature interview with Jacob Jolliff: New Sounds by the Young Man from Yonder Mountain.
• Tristan Scroggins and Tim Connell lead mandolin tracks: 2019 California Coast Music Camps Announced.
• Mandolin Mondays #169 - Sweden's Erik Igelström brings us some amazing traditional style music.

March 25

• Happy birthday, David Grisman! All hail the Dawg, born March 23, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey!
• We're in support of Sam Bush 100% with this new song.
• Wow... Sierra Hull playing her new Clark octave mandolin.

March 21

• Wow... Sierra Hull playing her new Clark octave mandolin.
• New in print: 18th Century Mandolin Duets of Jean-Baptiste Miroglio. Purchase: from Mel Bay Publishers.
• At D'Addario: Loog Guitar Giveaway. Sign up for their Players Circle rewards program, then fill out the entry form for your chance to win 1 of 2 guitars plus a D'Addario prize pack.
• Reviewed by Peghead Nation: the Collings MT2 Quilted Maple Mandolin.
• That's what you call customer service handled proactively: D'Addario Strings - Ask Us Anything.
• Nicely done: this Triggs Guitars and Mandolins video from the series Sounds of the Soul.

March 15

• New music and a mini interview with mandolin legend Andy Statman on his new recording: Monroe Bus.
• Feature interview: Tristan Scroggins on the release of Fancy Boy.
• New music from Tristan Scroggins on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mandolin Mondays #167, mandolin legend Jimmy Gaudreau with a tribute to the late Orrin Star.
• A great collection of tunes free to download: 25 Irish Fiddle Tunes.
• Mandolin Cafe News: Great Lakes Music Camp Announces 2019 Instructor Line-Up.

March 10

• New music: Tristan Scroggins' Fancy Boy Offers New Take on Classic Mandolin Innovation.
• A good read by Michael Eck: The Weber Build: Part II.
• Congrats to Cafe member Don Grieser, winner of the Monroe Mandolin Camp scholarship video competition.
• Mandolin Mondays #166 - the incomparable Eva Holbrook.
• Inaugural Choro Camp New England Features Elisa Meyer and Tim Connell.
• Of course, he's superb on mandolin, but he cooks and writes too. Impressive new web site for David Long.

March 1

• Monroe mini camp announced for Shelby, NC in conjuction with the Earl Scruggs Center, April 19-20.
• The fate of Byron Berline's Loar as a result of the fire from his shop.
• Mandolin Mondays #165: Berklee College of Music phenom Eli Slocumb brings us a famliar fiddle tune with a twist.
• Rest in peace: bluegrass legend Mac Wiseman has passed.
• Byron Berline's fiddle shop in Oklahome destroyed in tragic fire.
• 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.

February 22

• 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.

February 16

• Announced: 2019 Old School Bluegrass Camp to be held in Ontario Canada June 30 - July 5.
• Congrats to Ronnie and the band: Travelin' McCourys win GRAMMY for Best Bluegrass Album.
• Mandolin Mondays #163 - New Brunswick mandolinist extraordinaire Ray Legere.
• First listen to a new track from the upcoming Mile Twelve album!
• New Christmas music from Scott Klamm on the Cafe MP3 page.

February 11

• News we would have prefered to not hear: JazzMando website to sunset soon.
• A new web site for Ellis Mandolins. Nicely done!
• Bluegrass madman Jesse Brock delivers a perfect Ashland Breakdown as our Mandolin Mondays #162 guest.
• Announced: 6th Annual Metamora Mandolin Gathering wll be held March 30 and feature Don Julin.
Our Winter NAMM Show report.
• New music from Johnny Staats and Robert Shafer on the Cafe MP3 page.
• The new album from Mandolin Orange now available, "Tides of a Teardrop.

February 5

• Registration for the Marshall Mando Summit with Sierral Hull, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg and Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg is now open!
• Monroe Mandolin Camp Video Scholarship Submission Opens.
• Top violinist gets the British Airways cattle treatment.

February 1

• Wow: Whiskey Before Breakfast as a chord melody you ask?
• New in print, a truly epic publication worth owning: Italian Mandolin Heroes in America.
• New: Bill Monroe Mandolin Play-Along Volume 12.
• Gibson F-4 serial number #19493, mid teens. Have you seen this one?
• Congrats to Eastman for winning one of the Best of Show Companies to Watch at last weekend's NAMM Show.
• Mandolin Mondays #161 welcomes Italian mandolin great Martino Coppo.
• Congratulations Doug F., our Weber Yellowstone Mandolin winner.

January 27

• Our Winter NAMM Show report has ended. Exhausting but fun.
• Major camp announced: Alan Bibey Mandolin and Guitar Camp 2019.
• Registration in our Weber Yellowstone Giveaway has ended! Winning entry is being contacted and will be announced soon.
• Information about the 1st Annual Mountain Acoustics Luthier Festival, Burnsville, N.C.
• That's what I'm talkin' about. Mike Compton and Scott Nygaard: "Bring Your Clothes Back Home."
• New in stock at Morgan Music, only dealer you can get a new one from: two brand new Vintage F July 9 Red Diamond mandolins.
• Registration is now open in our Weber Mandolins Winter NAMM Yellowstone Celebration and Giveaway. » Enter!

January 21

• New rock music from Harry & the Hootenannies on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mandolin Mondays #160: there's no one quite like Chris Henry.
• 2019 Mandolin Camp North dates, faculty announced. Registration now open.
• We chipped in to help a great musician and human being: a GoFundMe for Tom Adams Musicians Dystonia Treatment.
• New original bluegrass music from the band Jeff Scroggins and Colorado (Tristan Scroggins on mandolin) on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mike Marshall, Caterina Lichtenberg, Sierra Hull, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg: 3rd Annual Marshall Mando Summit Announced.
• New in print for mandolin & accordion: Five Pieces & Elemental Suite.
• Enjoyed this: Exclusive Artist Interview: Keb Mo from Weber Mandolins.

January 14

• New original music from Topher Gayle on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mandolin Monday's #159, a very interesting D'Addario String Comparison by David Benedict.
• New Music from Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble: Sweet Harvest.
• Our feature interview with a mandolin phenomenon: Changing Channels with Ashley Broder.
• New music from Gravenstein Madnolin Ensemble on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Mandolin Mondays #158: Italian mandolin master Massimo Gatti.
• Congrats to Peter in Sweden, winner of the Marshall Mando Summit App - Northfield Mandolin Giveaway!
• A free chord melody lesson from the great Aaron Weinstein. Brilliant!
• 2019 San Diego Classical Mandolin Camp staff, dates, registration announced.

January 8

• A free chord melody lesson from the great Aaron Weinstein. Brilliant!
• 2019 San Diego Classical Mandolin Camp staff, dates, registration announced.
• New music from the band Local Folk on the Cafe MP3 page.
• Is there a better book in print about early country music? There is not. Celebrating 6 years in print today. Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers. Epic.
• Win a $5K mandolin in the Weber Mandolins Winter NAMM Yellowstone Celebration and Giveaway!

January 3

• From the author of Mandolins for Dummies, new lessons from Don Julin.
• Russian mandolinist Olga Egorova is our Mandolin Mondays #157. Wow!
• Monroe Mandolin Camp 2019 and all the announcemenets about staff, scholarships and more!
• Congratulations to Jeff Midkiff, headed to Carnegie Hall to perform with Carpe Diem String Quartet.
• Dates, instructors and performers announced for this year's March Mandolin Festival.
• New in print: Concert Pieces for Mandolin Orchestra by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni.
• Bits of history and information you'll find nowhere else: Ten Essential Bill Monroe Features.
• Someone on our forum claimed the Mandolin Cafe is "bluegrass-centric:" Not a shred of truth to the statement.