Audio from Butch Baldassari's Blue Moon Over Kentucky orchestral work honoring the music of Bill Monroe surfaces more than 20 years since last performed, published here with the permission of Butch's widow, Lelia Sinclair Baldassari.
October 26, 2002, Butch Baldassari appeared in concert with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of his Blue Moon Over Kentucky, a creation born
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PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of David Grisman Dawg Works Volume 3.
This third volume of the collected original compositions of David "Dawg" Grisman is comprised of works written between 1982 and 1991, compiled chronologically in the order in
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TRAVELERS REST, S.C. — Transatlantic folk and bluegrass duo The Foreign Landers announce their debut full-length album Travelers Rest, out November 12, featuring award-winning special guests and a compelling collection of bittersweet original songs all about searching for home.
The Foreign Landers are a new project featuring banjo and guitar
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SANTA FE SPRINGS, CALIF. — Crossrock Case Company has announced the launch and availability of their Double Mandolin Case, a fiberglass case for two A or F mandolins with a suggested retail price of $529.00, currently available for $399.00.
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FENTON, MO. — Mel Bay Publications, Inc. has announced the availability of Mandolin Picking Tunes - Old-Time Gems, by Tommy Norris. Available in eBook format now, the print version is expected soon.
Written in standard notation and tablature for the intermediate
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NOTE:this article was updated November 9, 2022 with new information discovered in the process of obtaining the music from this historic concert. We originally were told a DVD — music and video — existed, but it turns out only an audio recording was existed, now with the entire concert housed here.
Twenty year's ago this week, October 26, 2002 to be exact, the late Butch Baldassari appeared
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PORTLAND, ME. — Maddie Witler has announced the release of her debut solo recording entitled Astronaut, a collection of original compositions, available for purchase from Bandcamp.
On the project Maddie plays mandolin, guitar, bass, banjo, fiddle, and random percussion. Mike Robinson adds support
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RIPTON, VT. — To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Matt Flinner's The View From Here, a book of transcriptions of the melodies and solos played on the recording is now available for pre-ordering.
An instant classic when it was released, listening today,
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Slovakian based mandolinist Jozef Scheiner has announced a November 10 release for his new album entitled MOMENTO. 14 musicians participated in the album, including three mandolinists and one mandola player.
About the new project Jozef told us: "Fourteen musicians, a painter and a graphic designer. These
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CREMONA, ITALY — The Stauffer Center for Strings has announced an Avi Avital led masterclass to be held here December 5-8, an exclusive workshop aimed to explore a fascinating repertoire, starting from the Baroque and ending with Paganini.
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PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of Dave Apollon Complete Recordings 1960-1965 in download formats.
The music on this second volume of recordings by mandolin genius Dave Apollon was originally released on three Coral LPs, Mandolins! Mandolins! (1960), Magic of the Mandolin (1963) and
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BRISTOL, MAINE — Mandolinist Marilynn Mair has announced the release of her new recording entitled Silver Lining of a Quiet Year, 29 original compositions composed during the coronavirus pandemic that shut down all possibility of live performance. Quirky, funny, and lovely by turn, this renowned mandolinist captures the joy of creativity in the face of an unexpectedly
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İZMIR, TURKEY — Bulent Yazici has announced the release of his new recording, Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-3 on Baroque Mandolin, now available on many prominent streaming platforms.
NORMAN, OKLA. — The University of Oklahoma Press has announced the publication of Traveler - The Musical Odyssey of Tim O'Brien, by Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone.
For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim O'Brien
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NASHVILLE, TENN. — Isaac Eicher, two-time national mandolin champion known for his interpretation of jazz, Latin music and other styles, has announced the releases of new online resources for jazz mandolin.
JOHNSON CITY, TENN. — The East Tennessee State University Mandolin Orchestra has announced the released of their self-titled album. The ETSU Mandolin Orchestra, founded in 2014, is a course offered through the program in Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies (BLUE) that is housed in the
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MONTREAL — Jonathan Bélanger has announced an October 7 released and September 16 pre-release of his new EP recording Le Passe-Temps.
Founder of Mando Montreal, Bélanger sheds light on a musical style that originated in 1895 in Montreal with Le Passe-Temps, a musical periodical that published compositions
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About the author: Dave Berry is a mandolin player, composer, and freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Bluegrass Today, the California Bluegrass Association Breakdown, and the Mandolin Cafe. You can read his works and access his album Morning Walk, a collection of original instrumental "fiddle" tunes, on his website or all streaming sites.
Congrats on the new album. How do you feel this album is different from previous ones?
Well, I wanted to write a lot of the tunes so I wrote six of the songs either by myself or with somebody. There are two songs written by my cousin Megan McCormick and her writing partner Amanda Fields plus
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