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  1. Mandolin Mondays #431 w/ Special Guest Villads Hoffmann

    This week on Mandolin Mondays, we're joined by Villads Hoffmann of the Danish band Stundom with this incredible 10-string Model A Cittern built by Mats Nordwall. Here Villads is playing a gorgeous original composition from his recent record called "i lige måde", which translates in English to "likewise" or "you too."



    Danish musician and composer who specializes in Nordic folk music on various string instruments, ...
  2. So How've You Been?

    My last blog entry was... what? nine years ago?

    Well as you might expect a lot has changed in nine years. My family and I left the UK in summer 2018 for a more salubrious political and economic climate in my wife's home country of France. I have been working hard to integrate into French life ever since.

    Part of that integration has been adapting to French musical culture. American/English folk music doesn't get a lot of play here, so in the interest of having people ...

    Updated Apr-07-2024 at 4:57pm by Daniel Nestlerode

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  3. Mandolin Mondays #430 w/ Special Guest Kian Dye

    This week on Mandolin Mondays we're joined by Washington mandolinist Kian Dye and his 2020 Northfield Big Mon mandolin playing an original composition entitled "Fairhaven."



    Having first picked up the fiddle at age 6 and the guitar and mandolin only a few years later, Kian grew up attending various bluegrass festivals and fiddle camps all over the West Coast. After playing in numerous bands in his teens and early 20s in Portland, Oregon, ...
  4. Mandolin Mondays #429 w/ Special Guest Linus Lindblom

    This week on Mandolin Mondays we're joined by multi-instrumentalist Linus Lindblom of the band The Brothers 5 down in Savannah, GA. Believe it or not, but he's only been playing mandolin for 2 and a half years! And he really makes this Doug Clark two point mandolin sing on the classic Jesse McReynolds tune "Dixie Hoedown."



    Linus is 17 years old, and lives down in Savannah, GA. In addition to his burgeoning talent on the mandolin, ...
  5. Mandolin Mondays #428 w/ Special Guest Calum McIlroy

    Returning to Mandolin Mondays this week we're joined by Scottish mandolinist Calum McIlroy playing an original tune called "Big Pick Energy" on his 2018 Taran Springwell mandolin, built by Rory Dowling in Fife.



    Recipient of the 2024 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award, Calum McIlroy is a guitarist, mandolin player, and singer from Aberdeenshire. After graduation from the BMus Traditional Music course at the Royal ...
  6. Mandolin Mondays #427 /// New Mandolin!!!

    I got a brand new mandolin, and just had to hop on here for Mandolin Mondays this week to share it! Here's a spin on the beautiful Joe LaRose tune "Winder Slide" with this amazing new Apitius Custom Classic LS--full run down at the link below:



    You can check out the full run down of this amazing new mandolin in this video here: https://youtu.be/TaPgDcXO3io

    I've also got the tab/notation transcription for what I played ...
  7. The History of the Mandolin


    History of the Mandolin
    In some ways, a mandolin is the child of every traditional stringed instrument. Sized like a ukulele, tuned like a violin, double-stringed like a baroque guitar…and yet it has made a unique mark as an instrument all its own, found in everything from orchestras to rock and roll.

    Have you ever played or listened to a mandolin and wondered ...
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  8. Mandolin Mondays #426 w/ Special Guest Janos Koolen

    This week on Mandolin Mondays we're joined by Dutch mandolinist Janos Koolen playing a beautiful medley of original tunes on his Collings MTO mandolin.



    Janos Koolen (1981) is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist with a particular love for the mandolin. Among other groups he currently plays with Bertolf & Bluefinger. Besides bluegrass Janos likes to explore all different kinds of genres and use the mandolin together with instruments like the ...
  9. Carl Jones & Erynn Marshall Online Classes Return Mar 11-May 8

    by , Mar-02-2024 at 1:27pm (Carl Jones Mandolin Workshop: Concert Window Jan 6, 1 PM EST)
    Hey everyone!
    Hope you are well and picking lots.
    I encourage you to make up your own musical mando exercises often. Combining moveable chord shapes or right hand pick patterns w/ various string combinations might be a start.
    Then repetition... Your exercise noodle might turn into a nifty tune ... you never know!

    I'd like you to also encourage you to join Erynn and I as we are are offering one more Zoom music class this spring before we take a break for the ...
  10. Mandolin Mondays #425 w/ Special guest Scott Risner

    This week on Mandolin Mondays, we're joined by Northern-Kentucky mandolinist of the band Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle, Scott Risner, playing an original tune called "Lullaby for Sam" on his 2007 Duff mandolin.



    If you're new to Scott's music, here's his incredible story in his own words, "The first real and steady gigs were with a bluegrass band named Spur of the Moment. We played the Ground Round restaurants almost ...
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