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This week on Mandolin Mondays, Australian multi-instrumentalist Josh Bennett joins us for a stunning debut mandolin performance of this choro-style piece written by Doug De Vries. This 11 month old, left handed Duff is sounding incredible in Josh's hands!



Josh Bennett is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and performer with a love of music from all over the world. His ability to attain such expertise across so many instruments and to blend his music into so many genres is astonishing. Equally at home on guitar, sitar, dilruba (bowed sitar), fiddle, mandolin and tabla, he's one of Australia's most versatile musicians. He's performed around the world, on guitar at guitar festivals, on mandolin at Bluegrass festivals, and on sitar for Pandit Ravi Shankar at his home in Delhi.

Here's a word from Josh about the video, "This piece is called “Running The Scree”, written in a choro-style by a Melbourne friend and guitar virtuoso Doug De Vries, adapted for mandolin by me and performed for the first time in this video. I’m playing an 11-month old F5 mandolin built by the Australian luthier Paul Duff (still on its first set of strings despite me having thrashed it for almost a year). The hardest thing for me with this piece was to get that choro ‘lope’ in the rhythm (like swing but over four notes instead of two). I’m planning to do a video on rhythmic nuance coming up that talks about that very thing, and might use sections of this video as reference, stay tuned!"

Check out Josh's YouTube channel for lot's of in depth music tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZ...WJkhDBWBxnBHgQ

And be sure to connect with Josh at the following links below for more information about his music:

https://joshbennett.com.au/
https://www.youtube.com/user/joshbennettmusic
https://www.facebook.com/joshbennettmusic
https://www.instagram.com/joshbennettmusic/

And as always, tune in next week for more Mandolin Mondays! Until then...

Happy Picking!
David