Women with Mandolins

[jim simpson]

Here's my 1st: Lorraine Duisit formerly of Trapezoid

[jim simpson]

Next up is Dawn Watson formerly of Country Gazette

[jim simpson]

Robin Flowers

[jim simpson]

Hey, how did he get in here?

[jim simpson]

Okay, back on track: Donna Stoneman - Go Go Bluegrass

[Paul Hostetter]

http://lutherie.net/4girls.jpg

One is even playing a Knutsen.

And in this one, everyone in the photo is a Knutsen:

http://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen_images/knutsenfamily.jpg

[Paul Hostetter]

http://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen_images/payne_group.jpg

[Bobster]

I love the Donna Stoneman pic, Wish I had a poster of her. Any body know the year the pics was makde? Got any more?

[judith]

Really - my last try, in case you caught my other 2 upside down bloopers. They're all great pics. Judith

[ira]

what are those huge double instrument/necked things some of the folks above are playing???
hey- more about donna stoneman- she looks like my kinda mandowoman!

[jim simpson]

Judith,
Nice Picture!

Bobster,
The picture of Donna Stoneman was from June 8, 1970 taken at West Finley, PA.

You can see her with the rest of the Stoneman's in Bluegrass Odyssey - a documentary in pictures & words, 1966-86 by Carl Fleischhauer & Neil V. Rosenberg.

[jim simpson]

Here's one from 1973 of Alice McLain of the McLain Family Band:

[Paul Hostetter]

http://www.lutherie.net/bassi.e.mandole.jpg

Sicily. One of my favorite mandolin photos. What a band.

[Jim Broyles]

Info on Donna Stoneman - Bluegrass Champs (http://www.bluegrasschamps.com/)


Donna was born in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a master at playing the mandolin. Donna has resided in Nashville for many years.

She is now a minister of the Gospel and has traveled to many foreign countries delivering her ministry. She enjoys interjecting the mandolin and her puppets in her performances at churches and Christian events.

[ledmandlin]

Thanks, Jim, for starting this thread. If I had some pics of Sharon Gilchrist, they'd be here. She and Bryn Davies made the most remarkable complement to the combined musical presence of Tony Rice and Peter Rowan this past year; couldn't get enough of that group and hope they keep playing together for some time to come. Anybody have some shots of Sharon et al.?

[Paul Hostetter]

http://www.lutherie.net/eva.scow.jpg

Eva Scow, mandolin prodigy from Fresno and now the Bay Area. Keep your eye on her.

[jim simpson]

ledmandlin,

I like this one of Sharon Gilchrist:

[jim simpson]

Here's one of my Mom who has since passed away. She didn't play but was a good sport and went along with the photo suggestion. I think I must have inherited her sense of humor.

[ledmandlin]

These last two are great, Jim. Keep 'em coming, folks.

[oldwave maker]

Sharon picking up her GOM:

[Tom Gibson]

Nice picture, Bill, and nice KPIG sticker in the background. Great station.

[Keith Newell]

I like all the pictures of girls with mandolins (except the one with the 5:00 shadow):/
Keith

[mandolooter]

It's been seen around these parts before but Im very proud of this lil' picker named Melody...

[Plamen Ivanov]

We have this beautiful lady here among us:

[Plamen Ivanov]

Two beautiful German women with mandolins - Caterina Lichtenberg and Gertrud Weyhofen. Germany`s most brilliant mandolin players. I have a better picture of Caterina at home. Will post it tonight.

[Plamen Ivanov]

And there`s also this one:

[Plamen Ivanov]

And this Bulgarian lady:

[Bertram Henze]

what are those huge double instrument/necked things some of the folks above are playing???
I think these are resonance string guitars - the extra strings are not played but make sympathy tones for a long sustain (just what you want to avoid between bridge and tailpiece on mandos, but here at least they can be tuned properly).

Bertram

[Paul Hostetter]

Bertram - they're not "resonance string guitars." I don't think there is such a thing. Perhaps you were thinking of guitars with sympathetic strings? The low strings are called sub-basses, and they are actually plucked and played deliberately. These instruments are called harp guitars, and are decended from theorboes and archlutes and the like, which were played in similar fashion. There are a few mandolins made in this style too.

http://www.harpguitars.net/hgg/hg-group_composite.jpg

[Michael Wolf]

Seems like these harp guitars are related to the "Schrammel Gitarre" from Vienna, which also has additional bass strings on an second neck. They also have a musical genre called "Schrammel Musik".
On "Serenata" from Beppe Gambetta/Carlo Aonzo, Beppe is playing such an harp guitar, which was reconstructed by an italien luthier. They wanted to play their italien "turn of the century music" on authentic instruments. Beppe told very interesting storys about this subject at the concert.

Cheers
Michael

[Klaus Wutscher]

Here in Vienna, "Schrammel" is alive and well. It is a typical folk music from Vienna, sung in Vienese accent and the lyrics are either funny, morbid or obscene; the good ones are all three at the same time.

The guitars that are known in the states as "harp guitars" are called in Austria "Schrammelgitarre" or sometimes "Kontragitarre". To the best of my knowledge these instruments were invented in Austria. Don´t quote me on that, though!. They still pop up occasionally on flea markets, allthough most of them are in a sad shape.

[grandmainger]

And of course, there's always Milla Jovovitch...
http://gallery.millanews.com/data/media/9/millamandolin.jpg

The image below is blurred by me... Scott has the original somewhere in "the pub".

[jim simpson]

It would be distracting to be in her backup band!

[Ken Berner]

grandmainger, I am so proud to own a Flatiron mandolin; she would have made a great national sales rep!

[mandopete]

Man, I was censored for a picture like that! #It's a slippery slope...

[John Uhrig]

and here is another

[Moose]

Looks like she's really "bent-out'a-shape" 'bout something: - post-menopausal syndrome...!!??## - sexual frustration..!!??## ;tight corset!??## ; ... ; can't find-it"??.. -I'd suggest... a few "libations".. Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Jim M.]

And of course, J-Lo:

[billkilpatrick]

kids, moms and tiny tim aside ... that has to be the sexiest line-up of musicians ever!

[gschmidt]

Here's my fav...

[mandoryan]

HELLO Milla!!!!

I, for one, would love to be in her backup band,distracting or not. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[SternART]

Becky Smith, up in Idaho, is a great mandolin player!

[SternART]

Becky jammin' with the DGQ when they played in Boise.

[MML]

MOMMA MILLA....I think I died and gone to heaven http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Plamen Ivanov]

One more picture of Caterina Lichtenberg:

[acousticphd]

Here's Frances Cunningham of Nashville, bouzouki (10 string - maybe that's a cittern?) and mando player #- she has played/plays with various Celtic-flavored groups I'm not that familiar with, but I've been able to hear her play several times at the Nashville Contradances.

[bluesmandolinman]

Andra Faye from Saffire

[Jim M.]

Beth Patterson:

http://www.consortiumofgenius.com/album3/beth1.jpg

[danb]

Hey! I remember Frances from Zoukfest #1. How cool, I'll have to check up on her stuff.

circa 1998, zoukfest1:

Beth's actually 50% of why my CD was called "shatter the calm". We'd both just received our Steve Smith zooks (her's was the one made just after mine) and started WAILING on them in what we thought was a quiet alcove at the cavernous cellars of an old brewery that were host to ZF 1. Actually, it turns out there was a quiet slow teaching session below, which we more or less nailed with a neutron zook bomb. The guy leading it stormed by saying "nice tune, what's it called.. SHATTER THE CALM??"

[Michael H Geimer]

Hey ... I recognize Eva Scow from a jam at last Strawberry. She and her teenage, giggly friends wandered into a jam, where she (of course) blew everyone away before heading off into the evening ... perhaps in search of fun with people closer to her own age. She has a great latin flavor to her playing.

Note: I was already being way out picked before she arrived, and so I put down my mandolin *fast* when she joined that circle.

- Benig ... who keeps an 'unblurred' Milla photo at home, to peek at from time to time. Ahhh. What a beautiful Flatiron!

[dan@kins]

I love Milla Jovovitch. (not as much as Sharon Gilchrist) but I love her none the less. . .

Where can I find an original version of that pic?

[acousticphd]

Hey! I remember Frances from Zoukfest #1. How cool, I'll have to check up on her stuff.


Dan, here is a link to her recent CD with fiddler David Coe, with a few soundbits and a bio for both of them. #She uses those "Irish" tunings and is a great rythmic player.
link (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/coecunningham)

[Django Fret]

Who could forget this one?

[MML]

Gee I wonder why she dosen't play a F5 #style http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Vinaccia]

I am impressed with the rapid rise in the "Views" counter for this topic. (currently over 1500 hits in very short period) Perhaps this topic will give the Post a picture of yourself topic a run for the money in the long haul. Time will tell.

[Django Fret]

Here is another beautiful woman (Marilynn Mair) with a really nice Lyon & Healy A model.

[Tom C]

and....

[billkilpatrick]

I am impressed with the rapid rise in the "Views" counter for this topic. (currently over 1500 hits in very short period) Perhaps this topic will give the Post a picture of yourself topic a run for the money in the long haul. Time will tell.
yes ... funny that ...

but i, for one, haven't lost track of the genuine underlying concern in our seemingly puerile line of enquiry - yes! - isn't that a much maligned, musikalia made, octave mandola that beth patterson is holding?

[danb]

I think it's a Joe Foley or Hans De Louter.. She's got her "Fury" Steve Owsley Smith 10-string back too now

[Moose]

THIS thread is....walk'n a VERY thin line!? - http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif (an' I ain't touch'n it!)

[Django Fret]

Hope this one of Martie Maguire doesn't push it over the edge...

[mandolooter]

I don't know about the rest of you fellers but Im just looking at the mandolins! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[jim simpson]

Quote (Vinaccia @ Jan. 25 2006, 16:38)
I am impressed with the rapid rise in the "Views" counter for this topic. (currently over 1500 hits in very short period) Perhaps this topic will give the Post a picture of yourself topic a run for the money in the long haul. Time will tell.


Yes, thanks to everyone (in your own twisted ways) for making this thread so much fun and it's been less than 24 hrs. since inception.
I can imagine a publication inspired by this thread. Another glossy for the coffee table.

[WireBoy]

what is martie maguire playing?

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Don't forget the Cox Family. Wish I could find a better picture.

Daniel

[danb]

THIS thread is....walk'n a VERY thin line!? - #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif (an' I ain't touch'n it!)
yes folks, remember your audience includes the young.. keeping a very close eye on what's being posted!

[Karen Kay]

When we looked closely at the Harp-Guitar pic we were delighted to see our friend and fellow Topekan (and third place Winfield fingerpicker) Andy McKee in the lower left corner!! R&K

[jasona]

I just spent half an hour cruising the 'Net for a photo of Melissa Auf der Maur with her mandocello, with no success.

Great to see so many folks picking th emando however!

[terrapin79]

Here is my favorite old time mandolin player from Uncle Earl, KC Groves

[terrapin79]

Another fine player and singer, Brennen Leigh

[ledmandlin]

Jim, ...perhaps, this thread will spawn it's own business, coffe table book, posters, performance DVDs, CD samplers dedicated to these and other women yet to be mentioned. Walk that thin line, gents, but let's continue to honor the mandowomen indefinitely. What an extraordinarily gifted, as well as knockdown, dragout GORGEOUS group of women they are. Pheww; this is one inspiring thread.

[JeffS]

The image below is blurred by me... Scott has the original somewhere in "the pub".
I can't find it and it should probably be in the eye candy section. Multi-pass!

[Bertram Henze]

...These instruments are called harp guitars, and are decended from theorboes and archlutes and the like, which were played in similar fashion. There are a few mandolins made in this style too.
Thanx for the clarification for me and - finally - for ira who asked first.

Trying to imagine what the guitar cases for these must look like...

Bertram

[Paul Hostetter]

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/images/45U/45U-1040_case-open.jpg

[Paul Hostetter]

Oh yeah, women playing mandolin. How about the Coon Creek Girls?

http://www.womeninkentucky.com/images/women/ledford/ccgirls1.jpg

Esther "Violet" Koehler on mandolin.

[Jim Broyles]

Here's Pam Perry of the New Coon Creek Girls.

[man doh]

Can't find a photo but a link to the Kennedy Center performance video. Worth a peek if you never heard of the Pinetops.

click here (http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=JJPINETOPS#)

[JEStanek]

As far as music featuring female performers you can get Oh Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collections 1 and 2 at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005QK59/sr=1-1/qid=1138283693/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5911168-4782203?%5Fencoding=UTF8) and elsewhere. #Its a collection of Rounder artists.

Jamie

[Ted Eschliman]

what is martie maguire playing?
That would be an E.F. Elliott 8-string electric mando. Ed is a "surf guitar" specialist, residing in Oklahoma. Worked with Music Man and Mosrite (you can see the influence in his guitars).
Ironic, as you don't see much surfing in the Okie state; nonetheless, he makes a fine electric mandolin. I regret letting my ruby red PRS-like 8-string go a few years ago.

[fatt-dad]

Well, there are some fine photos to add to my "mandobabe" collection, originally started by THIS GUY (http://www.neilgladd.com/Mandobabes.html).

f-d

[olgraypat]

Brilliant. One must particularly admire the artistry of the one lady apparently balancing the mando on her head while conducting a personal health exam.

[Ken Berner]

Here is Deannie Richardson, fiddler and mandolinist on tour with Patty Loveless.

[Joe F]

Lisa Fuglie is the fiddle player in the band "Monroe Crossing," but she's also an awesome mandolin picker as well.

[oldwave maker]

thread just wouldn't be complete without a shot of the red eyed girl with the U Pick:

[Lefty&French]

I love Milla Jovovitch. #(not as much as Sharon Gilchrist) but I love her none the less. . .

Where can I find an original version of that pic?
I found it here :
www.millaletop.com/
only one mandolin alas! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Jim Garber]

These are the Millas of yesteryear...

Jim

[dixiecreek]

here's meeeeeeeeeeeeeee http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[dan@kins]

I wanna play mandolin with you dixecreek. Right there in that setting.

Thats a very flattering picture.

[otterly2k]

I wanna play with the Millas of Yesteryear... but not if I have to wear one of those funky things on my head.
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Django Fret]

These are the Millas of yesteryear...

Jim
Those earlier Millas are certainly a lot more attractive than their b@n#o playing contemporaries, IMHO.

[wannabethile]

dixiecreek, you sexy thang. haha! (i can say that because we've been dating for over a year and a half) :cool:

[JEStanek]

Those Banjo Gals of Yester-year look like th runaway bride! #If you can see the whites of the eyes on three sides they're crazy! #The Princess Leia Quintet Rocks (and not a single Dawg beard!!)!

Jamie

[Tom C]

Are they really women or are you photoshopping us? Dang! It kind of reminds me the the All Nurse band from the original Saturday Night Lives.

[Plamen Ivanov]

Paola Esposito and one more Pandini...

[Jim Garber]

I wanna play with the Millas of Yesteryear... but not if I have to wear one of those funky things on my head.
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Those are patented Tone Producers. That way they can also sing thru their ears. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Jim

[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

And now ... let's have a contest : who are the 3 ladies on the picture ? A little help, I took it in 1988 ... I know it's small but I'm gonna send another one, larger, if nobody guess http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[judith]

I 2nd Otterly's comment - I don't wanna wear the dresses, either - I can just feel my skin itch from the starch. Judith

[Dagger Gordon]

Mary Shannon (sister of Sharon) is a really good Irish mandolin player.

I'm sure someone can find a picture.

[RichieK]

You've got some early Dixie Chicks there....

[keithd]

Here's one of Mary Shannon from Peter Coombe's website; one happy customer with her new mandolin:

[jefflester]

Michelle Shocked

http://www.jamonline.it/jam119/images/mich3.jpg

[jefflester]

Amy Ray
http://www.ktao.com/solarfest_2005_images/SolarFest_237.jpg

[hotclub]

My buddy Dom.

[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

You've got some early Dixie Chicks there....
You're right Richie, but who's "the girl with the mandolin" http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

Here is one from the rock band LOURDS !

[Stephanie Reiser]

Those banjo-playing chicks...Wow!
That one center front reminds me a little
of Jerome Bettus.

[Tim]

Doesn't anyone have a picture of Sissy Knox from the New Main Street Singers?

[Darren Kern]

Those banjo-playing chicks...Wow!
That one center front reminds me a little
of Jerome Bettus.
That one center front reminds me of that guy from Monty Python that was always playing a woman http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[jim simpson]

"Doesn't anyone have a picture of Sissy Knox from the New Main Street Singers?"

Yes!

[Tim]

Jim - Thanks. #My son gave me the DVD for Christmas. #

From the "deleted scenes" section: #"Rap music is just folk music with the melody removed and a bunch of profanity thrown in."

[Joe F]

hotclub,

It looks like you're on an excursion train of some sort. Where is it?

[Moose]

I can "picture" it now!!.... - a glossy calender: RE: "THE GIRLS OF MANDOWORLD". http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[twaaang]

Phil from France, isn't the so-far-unidentified girl Sharon Gilchrist? -- Paul

[Thomas]

What? #No Sierra Hull?

http://www.fentressco.com/images/sierra1.jpg

[Moose]

Now THAT'S the most "inspiring" pic on this thread - so far!(IMHO, of course)- Thanks for posting. Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[terrapin79]

Another wave of the future, Malia Furtado of Front Royal VA

[mandopete]

I kinda like this one...

[Moose]

"Abstract"....eh!http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif - http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Tim]

Another wave of the future, Malia Furtado of Front Royal VA
Did she play with "All 4 Hymn" a few years ago?

[terrapin79]

Hey Tim:
She played with the Blue Light Special Bluegrass band the past year but I understand she left. I saw the young woman who played fiddle with All 4 Hymn, but I don't know for sure if it was her. She has a cd with her sister, Gina called "Green" from 2004.
Bill

[Milan Christi]

Here's a lady with a mando who deserves a lot of high regard.
Sandy Lee Cherryholmes.

[J. Mark Lane]

This is the best thread ever! #All we need is some single malt Scotch and dog or two, and we'll have all of my four favorite things --

1. Scotch
2. Dogs
3. Mandolins

and (in the remote distance)

4. #Women. #

How about a picture of a woman playing a mandolin while petting a dog and drinking a glass of Scotch?

By the way, Milla RULES! #I have that vid of her playing "Strange Behavior." #Every time I watch it, I engage in conduct adequately described by the song title...

[Chip Booth]

There's video? You must share Mark http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[J. Mark Lane]

I'd be happy to. It's a rather large file, as I recall. Maybe 20 megs? I can't remember. It's on my home computer. It used to be available for free download somewhere. Maybe someone else knows?

I can tell you, it is the sexiest video I've ever seen that was not...uh, well, I've never seen anything like that, of course, but...uh, well, anyway...it's a nice video.

[man doh]

Remind me never to buy a used mandolin from J Mark.

[Moose]

Counselor: AH!! - You are, indeed, a man of my own heart! - there ain't many of us left! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

Phil from France, isn't the so-far-unidentified girl Sharon Gilchrist? #-- #Paul
Paul, you're the winner !!! Congrats ! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Vinaccia]

Just an idle observation and some interesting statistics as of this moment:

Cafe Topic: Women with Mandolins, with less than 3 full days on the Cafe is averaging about Two Thousand One Hundred Six hits a day. #(6317 views ÷ by 3 days = 2,105.66)

Topic: Post a photograph of yourself: with 961 days on the cafe is averaging about 198 hits a day. #(189896 ÷ by 961 days = 197.60)

In 961 days from its inception, The Women with Mandolin topic, at its current daily view hit pace, stands to have over well over Two Million view hits. Can the mando cafe view counter go that high? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[mandolooter]

pretty girls, pretty mandolins....what can ya say!

[mandolooter]

Somewhere in there is a girl & a mandolin

[J. Mark Lane]

Remind me never to buy a used mandolin from J Mark.
Well, you know that thing about how mandolins get broken in and all...maybe mine are more valuable. <g>

And Moose -- yeah, we few, we have to stick together. We're bound to lose, in the long run. But I ain't changing just because I know "they" are going to win. <g>

Mark

[Karen Kay]

Add another vote for Dominique! #I am honored to have jammed with her in the Bat Camp at Winfield!
Richard

[Bill Snyder]

Just an idle observation and some interesting statistics as of this moment:

Cafe Topic: Women with Mandolins, with less than 3 full days on the Cafe is averaging about Two Thousand One Hundred Six hits a day. #(6317 views ÷ by 3 days = 2,105.66)

Topic: Post a photograph of yourself: with 961 days on the cafe is averaging about 198 hits a day. #(189896 ÷ by 961 days = 197.60)

In 961 days from its inception, The Women with Mandolin topic, at its current daily view hit pace, stands to have over well over Two Million view hits. Can the mando cafe view counter go that high? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
I would guess that in 958 days from now the daily average for this thread will be much less than the Post a Picture of Yourself thread. While this thread may not totally die, I imagine that it will not have as many posts added to its numbers as the other has.

[Eric F.]

All we need is some single malt Scotch and dog or two

Sorry, no single malt. But this is some mighty fine bourbon.

[Ken Berner]

Now, that is not your average bar-fly; nor a damsel in "distress"!

[Dfyngravity]

how about Rebecca Lovell of The Lovell Sisters Band

[Baron Collins-Hill]

the lovel sisters are real good, and i think theyre gonna be at greyfox.

baron

[sushi]

Mandolins really seem to be a babe magnet... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif ...no?

[Ted Eschliman]

Janna Jacoby, violinist/mandolinist:

http://jazzmando.com/images/RodJanna.jpg

Yes, Glauber, that is an Ovation...

[Baron Collins-Hill]

by the way, where did that lovels sisters photo come from?

thanks
baron

[Ken Berner]

Ted, Thanks for the great example of pulchritude; keep up the fine work!

[Ted Eschliman]

Pulchritude: Pronunciation: 'p&l-kr&-"tüd, -"tyüd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pulchritudin-, pulchritudo, from pulchr-, pulcher beautiful
:physical comeliness
....................................

Right, Ken.
Rod Stewart just doesn't age, does he!

http://members.aol.com/teesch/images/Msmiley.gif

[f5loar]

Two biggies that come to mine are the Cherryholmes mom, and one of the Steven Sisters. Don't have photos and even if I did I wouldn't know how to show them. Maybe others can upload some. And how about another photo of Donna Stoneman!

[mandolooter]

Mom and daughter?

[glauber]

Rod Stewart just doesn't age, does he!
He's well preserved.

[glauber]

Yes, Glauber, that is an Ovation...
Wow, thanks for pointing out. I didn't notice there was a mandolin in that picture! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Dfyngravity]

phisphan, it came from their website LSB (http://www.lovellsistersband.com/)

[Baron Collins-Hill]

thanks

baron

[Plamen Ivanov]

Mari Fe Pavón

[pick up the world]

I might play in a ensemble under the direction of mari fe pavon. I saw her playing at aconcert (quintet). Just great http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
Might you heard about juan carlos munoz (same quintet and duo) he is my teacher. I think the best teacher which you could get.
When I started to play mandolin (I live in luxembourg!!) I never thought that I would find a teacher. But B-MAN gave me the adress (thanks again) of mr. munoz.

[pick up the world]

You should visit www.artemandoline.com by the way http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Plamen Ivanov]

Hello "pick up"! Yes, I know him! I`m sure he is a great teacher. You are a lucky one!

Good luck!
Plamen

[Mike Stateler]

How about Sonya Isaacs
http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2003/images/ibma/blondewithmando.jpg
Mike

[John Flynn]

I got a chuckle out of the fact that on Sonya Issacs' page on the Issacs' website, there is a link to Sonya's "Mary Kay" website, where she sells cosmetics. More power to her, I guess, but I have never seen anything like that on an artist's website before! It was just unexpected.

[Bill Snyder]

Mando Johnny, to understand the reason for the link to Mary Kay just look at your signature line, explains it all.

[Jack Roberts]

googled up this one:

[jim simpson]

"I used to fiddle around with these girls from the neighborhood"

[jim simpson]

I don't think we've featured Nuns yet(unidentified nun):

[JEStanek]

Lefty, Nun with a bowlback! Hat trick, Jim.
Jamie

[DryBones]

Thanks, Jim, for starting this thread. #If I had some pics of Sharon Gilchrist, they'd be here. #She and Bryn Davies made the most remarkable complement to the combined musical presence of Tony Rice and Peter Rowan this past year; couldn't get enough of that group and hope they keep playing together for some time to come. #Anybody have some shots of Sharon et al.?
I believe this is what you are talking about...

Pete,Tony,Sharon,Bryn (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5201773010956659512&q=mandolin)

[John Flynn]

Mando Johnny, to understand the reason for the link to Mary Kay just look at your signature line, explains it all.

Good point. Like I said, more power to her. I hope she earns her pink Caddilac someday! It's just unusual, and I guess a bit refreshing, to see an artist allude to his or her day job on thier website. Visiting most artist's websites, you are left with the impression they are full-time "stars" even when you happen to know they are not.

[Jim Garber]

"I used to fiddle around with these girls from the neighborhood"
Hey, I just got that photo in the mail! I was going to rescan and post it... oh well.

Jim

[jim simpson]

Sorry Jim!
My zeal seems to know no limits. It is a cool photo!
Congrats!
Jim

[Jim Garber]

That's okay. This one is mine also (from page one of this thread).

http://lutherie.net/4girls.jpg

Jim

[Jim Garber]

All right, here is another.

Jim

[mad dawg]

Renoir...

[ledmandlin]

DryBones, ...bless your googlesearching mandoloving heart for finding and sharing that clip. I've got to have heard ol' Red Rowan's preamble to Free Mexican Airforce well over fifty times and our pals were a little rough on this occasion, mid-summer '05, but, by the time I caught up with them in NorCal a few months later--3 times in one week--they'd long since found their groove and were sublime. Thanks, again, Jason.

[David M.]

May have been mentioned, but haven't seen a pic of Carmella Ramsey. #Mainly a fiddler, but I saw her on ACL playing for Patty Loveless and she was on mando.

Can't find a pic of her w/mando. just with fiddle.

[mandopete]

We gettin' artsy now?

[Django Fret]

Jennie Benford (Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops)

[Plamen Ivanov]

We gettin' artsy now?
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Moose]

She should'a known! ; ya' CAN'T play them 'tater bugs' stand'n UP!!### - hope she didn't....crack it!!## (I'm talk'n 'bout the mandolin!)... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[Ken Berner]

I'm with David M.; where is the lovely Carmella Ramsey? Anybody have a photo of her pickin' mandolin? I'll keep searching.

[stevem]

Not sure what's wrong with her. Looks like a nice enough axe...

[levin4now]

A couple more of Lourds. A lot of power in her stage presentation it seems. I wonder if "astropop" is anything similar to bluegrass?

[levin4now]

......playing a Gibson...

[Jim Hilburn]

I've been holding back with this one because I thought I might get in trouble.
First, she's not a real woman, and second, that's not really a mandolin.
But she's been on all of my mandolin labels.

[Jim M.]

Let's not forget Scott's postcard collection. This is my favorite:
#9 (http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/postcards/postcard09.html)

[Moose]

Hey Jim H.: I think I worked with HER in Baltimore - years ago! - Nice lady 'cept when she drank hard liqour! - then she'd get real "nasty".... hee... hee.. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Django Fret]

This is the best thread ever! #All we need is some single malt Scotch and dog or two, and we'll have all of my four favorite things --

1. Scotch
2. Dogs
3. Mandolins

and (in the remote distance)

4. #Women. #

How about a picture of a woman playing a mandolin while petting a dog and drinking a glass of Scotch?



A couple of dogs, a mandolin, a Scotch, and Milla. #

Probably doesn't get too much closer than this!

[J. Mark Lane]

Ha! That will do nicely, thanks!

Now...can you just get all of those things to come over to my house?

[stevem]

There's just something about a woman with a mandobass...
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[stevem]

Not sure what to say about this one...

[mandoisland]

I found this picture some time ago on Bluegrass and Country Music; Guests at ETSU (http://cass.etsu.edu/bluegrass/guest.htm)

[mandoisland]

And another one from the Homepage of the Crooked Jades
Crooked Jades Presskit (http://www.crookedjades.com/presskit.html) - you can find a high resolution image there.

[bluesmandolinman]

did I mention that this is my new favorite topic ?

women and mandolins hhhmmmmm http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

here is Roselyn Lionheart

[Moose]

THIS is a "live-ly" thread..., to say the least! - carry-on... Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[mandolooter]

patriotic and all that...

[fatt-dad]

. . . I'm going to build a web page with these!!

f-d

[mandocrucian]

[IMG]
Maria Leahy of Leahy (http://www.leahymusic.com/gallery/fansubmissions/tnguyen-02262005/tnguyen8.htm)

[Ken Berner]

mandolooter, Is that really Martha White performing in her best Rhonda outfit?

[Moose]

"...now you bake right, with Martha White ; goodness gracious good'n lite Martha White ; for the finest..." Thanks for the music.., Lester. RIP. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sleepy.gif

[DryBones]

you can get the whole story on Rhonda and Martha White plus hear both versions of the theme song on the Woodsongs website.

Woodsongs Rhonda Vincent (http://webcast.msc.uky.edu/woodsongs-303.wmv)

[jefflester]

I'd be happy to. #It's a rather large file, as I recall. #Maybe 20 megs? #I can't remember. #It's on my home computer. #It used to be available for free download somewhere. #Maybe someone else knows? #

I can tell you, it is the sexiest video I've ever seen that was not...uh, well, I've never seen anything like that, of course, but...uh, well, anyway...it's a nice video.
You downloaded it from me. It's 47MB. Milla isn't playing any mando, but Glen Phillips is.

Strange Behavior (http://cindynjeff.freesite.org/milla-glen-strange-behavior.mpeg)

[jefflester]

Sarah Jarosz, with Mike and Chris in Austin Saturday night:
http://www.geocities.com/ron8318/austin2006/mike_chris_sarah_3.jpg

[Bobster]

I just received my DVD, "Road to Nashville" from amazon.com and boy is it great. Donna Stoneman was, is and always will be the bomb. Also has some great Osborne stuff too. Great stuff. Bobster

[Jack Roberts]

Kiyomi was posted previously, but here is another picture of her.

Here is a link to commercial she made:

http://integral.or.tv/img/calltoweb.mpg

[Jack Roberts]

Here's another little video clip:

http://integral.or.tv/img/yuuzakuraeki.mpg

Kiyomi (http://integral.or.tv/img/yuuzakuraeki.mpg)

[Django Fret]

Who says only the ukulele players get to dress up in Hawaiian outfits and have all the fun?

(Amanda Barrett of the Ditty Bops)

[David M.]

Hope Amy don't mind me posting this. She's probably the best singer in this state, maybe the midwest...

http://www.mikeandamyfinders.com

Good band. good writing and singing and picking.

[Linda Binder]

Thanks Plamen for posting my picture on this thread! Here's a picture with a different mandolin--a Breedlove Orca. I'm pictured with Daniel Ahlert and Birgit Schwab at a concert last year.--Linda

[Moose]

Heeeeyyy! - Chris T. "cleans up" real good don't he!? - Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Noe Valley Plucked String Orchestra:
More than one woman with a mandolin! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
http://www.mandolinserenade.com/051113-018small.jpg

Daniel

[mandopete]

I'm actually quite surprised that no one has posted a picture of Tove Flensborg!

[J. Mark Lane]

Hey, Daniel. Have you seen them perform yet? Great photo. From a website, or did you take it?

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/hoahio.jpg
Haco, the original Japanese mando-babe

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/Carmella_Ramsey.jpg
Carmella Ramsey, former Patty Loveless sidekick

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/Rachel_Clayton_small.jpg
Rachel Clayton of Boston band Chapter in Verse

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/RajuNagamani.jpg
P. Nagamani

[stevem]

another

[mandolooter]

oh boy...Pokemon my daughters favorite...where's the Chobits? LOL!

[jim simpson]

This is my friend Nina Schorran. Okay, she doesn't play but it seemed like a good idea to have her hold it.
(GN Anderson #24 - formerly owned by new member Chuck Naill)

[mrmando]

http://www.emando.com/images/players/Danie_Powers/Danie_Powers2.jpg
Danie Powers ~ look out!

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/Jewel_Barbour.gif
Jewel Barbour

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/Deni_Bonet_thumb.jpg
The indefatigable Deni Bonet

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/builders/Kent/Neve_Campbell_with_Kent.jpg
Sho 'nuff, it's Neve Campbell!

[mrmando]

http://emando.com/images/players/Pony_West.jpg
Pony West...

[Django Fret]

Nancy Blake.

Nice to see such a talented lady and a Loar in the same shot. Pretty good guitar player too.

[DryBones]

Sho 'nuff, it's Neve Campbell!
and a lefty at that! #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[Django Fret]

Nancy Wilson of Heart. Another picture of her with a mando at http://www.theheartgallery.com/gallery....pic=279 (http://www.theheartgallery.com/gallery/index.php?action=showpic&cat=24&pic=279)

[stevem]

Great pics everybody.
I like the feel of this one...

[Chris Burt]

Steve, What do you know of that painting?

[stevem]

Steve, What do you know of that painting?
Found it here (http://www.clarkegalleries.com/ilstedt/ilstedt_mandolin.html)

[f5loar]

Can't say if pretty actress Neve can pick or not but she sure is holding a nice 60's vintage Kent electric mandola.

[levin4now]

Apparently, this is from Pablo Picasso.... Link (http://www.antoniogramsci.com/garcia-lorca/immagine_donnamandolino.htm)

[levin4now]

She's thinking......"I've SEEN this picture somewhere before.......hmmmmm"

[Professor PT]

http://www.emando.com/images/players/Danie_Powers/Danie_Powers2.jpg
Danie Powers ~ look out!
Hey, isn't that the singer from Twisted Sister? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[stevem]

Here's an interesting one I found. Don't know anything about her...

[Ken Berner]

Hey Alan, That Picasso picker looks like she ought to play in a "jug" band!

[jefflester]

I believe the Picasso painting is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

[Arto]

Here´s one:
(see eBay item 6181149063)

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Tracy Chapman talking to Carlo Aonzo about a mandolin she had just received (See Carlo Aonzo's web site (http://www.aonzo.com))
http://www.aonzo.com/assets/photos/04CA_tracy.jpg

Daniel

Monica Rizzio, vocalist, and fiddler of the band Tripping Lily. Warming up on Alex Becrelis' mandolin, as she eagerly awaits the arrival of her new custom built Brunkalla mandolin next week. Shes got an amazing voice too, is that a women or what? Take a listen.....

www.TrippingLily.com

[keithd]

Thanks for that link; nice lookinig webpage, singing and playing.

[levin4now]

I don't understand why every historic/old picture/painting that depicts a woman playing a mandolin, generally has her clothes falling off or completely missing altogether.

I don't think that holds true for today's world. #If it did, I'd have to keep my daughters from playing the mandolin, (and perhaps have my wife play it more....at home of course.)

Then again, maybe this is the modern version of those old depictions:

[Onesound]

Guess the mandolin drives some women wild!

[Moose]

Yeah!! - Kind'a like a "fetish" thing....., welll, whatever.. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Ted Eschliman]

Guess the mandolin drives some women wild!
That's true...

Drives Mrs. Mandohack wild, and me to the basement to remote corners of the house, so she doesn't have to hear me play.

[otterly2k]

I'm thinking that those pieces of "art" were probably created with the viewer in mind and probably do not represent the women's actual experiences.

I don't know about the other women on this board, but no matter how much I enjoy playing the mandolin, it's never caused my clothing to spontaneously fall off.

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[otterly2k]

perhaps it was a marketing ploy by mando makers... kind of like an earlier equivalent of selling cars by putting bikini-clad supermodels all over them with wet soapy sponges. While I can't speak for all women, this is not really how most women behave "in our natural habitat".

[fredfrank]

While I can't speak for all women, this is not really how most women behave "in our natural habitat".
I think most men know that, but you can't blame us for dreaming.

[JEStanek]

Maybe we could use women in overalls hand rubbing varnish on a souped up F-5 with stealth shaped sound holes.... droooooollling with tongue firmly in cheek.

Jamie

[Plamen Ivanov]

Hello,

I was wondering where to post this and I found this to be the most appropriate thread. You know the original, of course, but here is what my colleagues (4 women) gave me as a present for my 30th. birthday.

[Brady Smith]

Sandy Cherryholmes


http://www.cherryholmesfamilyband.com/images/images3/11%20Courtesy%20Mike%20Morbeck.jpg

[otterly2k]

EXcellent, Plami! You look great with that thing on your head... far better than I would!
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[PatrickH]

Great picture of Nancy Wilson.

[Treblemaker]

http://www.barefootnellies.com/images/gof2005-Thumbnails/35.jpg

Prentice Sellers of the Lone Mountain Sisters and the Barefoot Nellies - Both great San Francisco Based Bluegrass Bands...

[Treblemaker]

http://www.barefootnellies.com/images/gof2005-Thumbnails/19.jpg

Nicole Solis - SF Based Mando Picker with the Barefoot Nellies...

[Treblemaker]

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/cartoon/images/Warner/dell-mandolin.JPG

Well Bugs ain't no Gal - but ya know he loves to wear dresses - and he picks a mean 4 string mando....

[Treblemaker]

http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/cultura/p_irimescu1.jpg

Girl with Mandolin
Sculpture by Romanian Artist Ion Irimescu