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RIPTON, VT. — Registration for Matt Flinner's Winter Virtual Mandolin Camp held January 29-31 has opened. The three-day online camp features Alan Bibey, Don Stiernberg, David Surette along with Flinner.

Each day, students will be ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — David Grisman's Acoustic Disc has announced the launch of their new web site at https://acousticdisc.com/.

The site has many new features plus the complete catalog of physical CDs and digital download releases, all ...

FENTON, MO. — In this sequel to The Complete Mandolinist, world-renowned mandolinist Marilynn Mair expands on her previous method books, presenting over 100 compositions that span 5 centuries, works she has thoughtfully edited or arranged ...

FENTON, MO. — Mandolin Picking Tunes: Early Music Gems by Dix Bruce is a collection of 34 wonderful songs from the 1200s to the 1600s especially arranged for intermediate and advanced mandolinists.

The titles span ...

FENTON, MO. — Mel Bay Publications, Inc. has announced the release of Gypsy Swing & Hot Club Rhythm Complete Mandolin Edition, by Dix Bruce.

This Book/CD Set contains 29 great swing standards in the style of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and ...

PORTLAND, OR — Dennis Benjamin and Steve Mullins, two childhood friends take separate musical paths, uniting after years to join together in the recording of the instrumental EP by their group Acoustic Remnant entitled Sliding Ida.

Listen ...

Seasonal Suites for Mandocello and Seasonal Suites for Octave Mandolin are two new publications by John Goodin, a collection of four sets of tunes.

All of the pieces in the collection were arranged with larger mandolin family instruments in mind. The longer scale lengths and deeper resonance of the mandocello and octave mandolin ...

FAIRFAX, CA — Peghead Nation has announced an eight-part live Zoom workshop series taught by mandolin instructor Sharon Gilchrist entitled "Melodic Embellishment: A Doorway to Improvisation."

The series, designed for beginning to ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Tom Wright has announced the release of his new recording for 10-string mandolin entitled 5 x 2.

About the album Wright told us, "It begins with Bach, heads to Brazil for some choro by Hamilton de Holanda and Dudu Maia, touches on Frank Zappa and Igor Stravinsky, ...

CHICAGO — The Old Town School of Folk Music has announced a virtual online event with mandolin legend David Grisman to be held December 19, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Central Time.

Join David Grisman for a discussion on all things mandolin ...

The duo of Alexey Alexandrov and Ekaterina Skliar, have announced the release of their holiday themed recording entitled Mandolin Mirth.

Both masters of Russian domra and mandolin, Alexey and Ekaterina came together in 2015 to form a unique mandolin-domra duo that presents a repertoire ...

Slovak mandolinist Jozef Scheiner has announced the release of a new album entitled La Mando, dedicated to mandola. Scheiner presents his own compositions, recorded in the company of musicians from the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic playing an H-5 mandola that was specially crafted for this project by ...

The songs and tunes on Dreams from the Overlook are perfectly spare, sweetly melodic and, by turns, funny, ruminative and mesmerizing, with punning instrumentals like "Bread and Taxes," "The Wrong Fish" and "The Cousin Brothers" couched alongside comically-christened vocal numbers like "Ragtop Ford" and "Don't Despise a Spider."

An ambitious 31-track double disc, Overlook, seems, as the title suggests, like something you might have imagined. But here's the rub. It's not your dream; it's Jody Stecher's.
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PORT TOWNSEND, WA — After 30 years, Acoustic Disc has announced that they have stopped manufacturing physical CDs, while moving their catalog of 100+ releases to the digital domain.

In an email to their customers David ...

FAIRFAX, CALIF. — In celebration of their newly launched web site, Peghead Nation is offering Mandolin Cafe visitors the first month free on any new monthly subscription, or a $20 discount off an annual subscription. Work on your mandolin playing this ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc proudly announces the digital only release of new Deluxe Editions of two dawg favorites — David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas and Not For Kids Only by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.

David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas was originally released ...

WUPPERTAL, GERMANY — Celebrating 20 years of recording on their own label Wouldn't Listen label, mandolin and guitar duo Marijke & Michiel Wiesenekker have released a compilation of tracks from past recordings, including select remakes, with the album Wouldn't Listen ...

CARMAGNOLA, ITALY — One Man One Mandolin is the title of a new, truly solo release, from Italy based musician Mario Poletti. On the recording, Poletti plays acoustic and electric mandolins, electric mandola, and adds hand clapping, foot tapping and finger snapping ...

The Meadow Mouse & The Mandolin, A Children's Musical eBook with music by Annette Siegel will be published Nov. 21 on Apple Books.

The book features Isabella, a meadow mouse that seemed happy to just ...

HAMBURG, GERMANY — Following his publications A Year with Calace and A Mandocello's Yearbook, Florian Klaus Rumpf has announced the launch of A Year with the Classics for mandolin.

The project presents variations by classical mandolinists Pietro Denis, Gabriele Leone, Giovanni Battista Gervasio and Antonio Riggieri and provides ...

GOODLETTSVILLE, TENN. — The Mandolin Store has announced it is set to give away a custom Northfield Mandolins NF5S with a one-of-a-kind engraved pickguard this coming Black Friday, November 27.

The value of the entire package that includes case ...

The first time I talked to Adrian Gross was in the fresh fruit department of my local supermarket. I spotted the young man carrying an A-style mandolin case, so naturally, had to approach. Little did I suspect he would soon be the phenomenal mandolin player for Canada's best known and probably most successful touring bluegrass band ever, The Slocan Ramblers. The band has released three albums and recently won the IBMA Momentum Award for Band of the Year.

A native of Montreal, Adrian moved to Toronto when he entered the Humber College jazz program as a guitar major. As a kid, Adrian fell in love with the sound of gypsy jazz after seeing the Woody Allen Movie Sweet and Lowdown (he thought the fictional film was about a real musician). Adrian is a highly versatile player and jazz is still an important part of his musical life but these days he rarely ...

HAZARD, KY — Scott Napier, Bluegrass mandolinist and Associate Professor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music at Hazard Community & Technical College has announced the recipients of five LP copies from his personal collection of classic bluegrass mandolin albums he considers the ...

Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and mandolinist Frank Solivan is out with a Christmas classic — "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" — meant to serve as encouragement in what has been a very difficult year for so many reasons.

About the recording, Solivan said, "2020 has ...