Mandolin Cafe Front Page Archive

If you missed something from the Mandolin Cafe front page you'll find it here. Since some of the information we link to is external please understand that as these links go bad they will be removed.

Previous years: 2017

February 16

• Beautiful vintage Geib Case on eBay. Hard to find!
• 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.