Robin Rapuzzi's Glo Worms playing Tesoro Mio in Vaughan's Lounge, New Orleans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTTkVaJFCQ
Robin Rapuzzi's Glo Worms playing Tesoro Mio in Vaughan's Lounge, New Orleans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTTkVaJFCQ
young Carrera Stamile with the Foothills Philharmonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxm_B62c8w&ab_channel=MandolinPrincess
[QUOTE=JeffD;1916241]I guess I would need to know what kind of jam you are referring to.
I host an intermediate Irish session in Los Angeles, here are the tunes we played on 9/24:
Cooley's Reel...
I have been following Tuba Skinny (New Orleans trad jazz) through YouTube vids for years ; today I learned that Robin Rapuzzi, their washboard player, plays mandolin. His trio, Rapuzzi Glo Worms,...
Manoela Wunder (w/Hopf bowlback mandola) and the Cafe's own mezzolyn (w/ '23 Gibson A ) at a LA mando ensemble reunion.
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More of the Hopf mandola:
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Living Tree Music - http://www.livingtreemusic.com/
Bob Dylan, interviewed by Douglas Brinkley, NYT, June 12, 2020:
"Bluegrass music is mysterious and deep rooted and you almost have to be born playing it. Just because you are a great singer, or a...
Like Doug in post #6 above, I was in the audience when Hilary Hahn walked out on the stage in Pasadena and played this:
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[QUOTE=brunello97;1587948]Not that complicated....just wrap it up.
NMC - Re: The Fabulous Thunderbirds video - the guitarist is Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray's older brother; the house in the...
I like Seldom Scene's cover of "Baby Blue":
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A nice photo of Woody Guthrie playing mandolin ran in the Sunday New York Times (6/21/15), with the article "Pete Seeger's New York Roots".
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NYT caption & photo credit: "Pete Seeger,...
Bob Applebaum ended up in Venice, California, where he is still playing up a storm.
Here he is with one of his projects, String Madness:
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We enjoyed Doolin, on the west coast, just north of the Cliffs of Mohor, and loved Christy Barry's session at Gus O'Connor's pub.
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At the time I bought my Newson F-5, in 2003, I did not think that I was going to buy
an F-5; I just wanted to play a few. The sound of this Newson reminded me of the richness
of my old Vega...
Hi David - I have a D'Addario FlatTop mandola set on the Hopf at the moment - .016. .024, and .035; for the G strings, I'm trying .062s. The scale length is just 17 inches, so the G strings are a...
1990 Hopf Mandola:
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Recently acquired through the Cafe classifieds; tuned as an octave mandolin at the
moment.
Nowell at Living Tree Music has worked on a Gypsy mandocello and a Vega bowlback for me, and I was very happy with his work.
He is in the San Fernando valley, in Panorama City. Their website:...
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Here's a simple but elegant Gypsy mandocello by Walt Kuhlman.
I bought it secondhand from Cafe member Jeff, aka jjh, who ordered it from Walt.
Camp Mather, the Festival's home since 1983, is still standing as of 2:30PM 8/23:
"this just in from the groveland FB page:
We have just received the following information from a briefing by...