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  1. Mandolin Mondays #96 w/ Special Guest Adam Steffey

    Honored to have the illustrious Adam Steffey on Mandolin Mondays this week! Check out his playing on this old time medley with his crisp-sounding Northfield mando.



    It would suffice to say that Adam Steffey is one of the most successful mandolinists of all time--5 time Grammy Winner and 9-time Mandolin Player Of The Year of the International Bluegrass Music Association. Over the years, he's played with ...
  2. Happy Halloween! Scooby Doo Theme on Mandolin.

    Hey guys! It’s Halloween time so here’s some spooky Scooby Doo music. Hope you enjoy!

  3. Mandolin Mondays #95 w/ Special Guest Jake Howard

    Mandolin Mondays #95: Jake Howard of the Page Turners is with us this week on Mandolin Mondays for an Old Time rager on his trusty Gerald Anderson F5 mando.



    I first met Jake in 2014, at Mike Marshall's Acoustic Music Seminar and was impressed with his tasteful picking. He since has graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and helped start the successful touring band The Page Turners. In 2016, the band won the ...
  4. On a Misty Night - Tadd Dameron [Acoustic]

    This week I worked on a jazz standard composed by Tadd Dameron. I’ve always loved this tune, and I hope you dig my arrangement.

  5. Embedding Facebook videos into the forum

    It's possible to embed Facebook videos directly into our forum and the instructions are fairly simple (our opinion).

    In order to achieve this, you need to use the forum's BB Code. BB Code is a way forum owners across the internet allow users to implement HTML inside of our forum without the inherited and dangerous risks of allowing you to write HTML --another discussion that is technical that most of you don't want to hear, and is more than needed for this discussion.

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  6. Mandolin Mondays #94 w/ Special Guest Tommy Norris

    Tommy Norris, mandolinist from the Barefoot Movement brings us a tasty chord melody arrangement of this jazz standard on his beautiful Prucha F5 mandolin.



    Based in Nashville, Tommy has made a successful career in the bluegrass world. Over the past seven years his band, The Barefoot Movement has been around the block a time a two, making appearances on Country Weekly Magazine, RollingStone.com, Music City Roots, and Woodsongs ...
  7. Bartok Violin Duets on Mandolin/Violin

    Hey guys! In 2015 I recorded six of the 44 Bartok Violin Duos with my friend and incredibly talented violinist Judith Meyers in West Virginia. I thought I'd throw them into one video and share it!

    I think I shared them somewhere on the cafe a couple years ago, but this is a slightly better way of presenting them. Enjoy!

  8. Mandolin Mondays #93 /// "Old Tom"

    Here's an original tune of mine that's featured on Mile Twelve's forthcoming record Onwards!



    The album will be officially released on Friday, October 27th, and I can't wait for you all to hear it! You can now preorder the record from our bandcamp page HERE. This tune is named after a famous Australian killer whale by the name of Old Tom. You can read up about him HERE.

    Speaking of Down Under! Mile Twelve is leaving ...

    Updated Jun-01-2020 at 4:52am by dbmandolin

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  9. Mandolin Mondays #92 w/ Special Guest Jason Anick

    Mandolin Mondays #92: Jazz mandolin virtuoso, Jason Anick joins Mandolin Mondays this week with a beautiful original composition on his incredible 5-string "jazzbo" electric mandolin from Paul Lestock.



    Based in Boston, Jason Anick is taking the jazz world by storm with his progressive and tasteful violin and mandolin playing. He's one of the youngest people to ever teach at the Berklee College ...

    Updated Oct-02-2017 at 6:47pm by dbmandolin

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  10. Mandolin Mondays #91 w/ Special Guest Cory Piatt

    Cory Piatt from the Summer Brooke and Mountain Faith Band is with us this Monday for a beautiful rendition of an old gospel classic on his Daley F5 mandolin.



    Cory is one of the brightest young mandolin players on the scene today. He's already spent time performing with the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys and The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band, and in recent years he's made a name for himself with The Summer Brooke and Mountain Faith ...