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    Tesoro Mio ~ The Glo Worm Trio

    Robin Rapuzzi's Glo Worms playing Tesoro Mio in Vaughan's Lounge, New Orleans:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTTkVaJFCQ
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    Re: Women with Mandolins

    young Carrera Stamile with the Foothills Philharmonic:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxm_B62c8w&ab_channel=MandolinPrincess
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    Re: Tunes common to your jam group?

    [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...
  4. Tuba Skinny washboard player's mandolin side project

    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,...
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    Re: Women with Mandolins

    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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    Re: Hopf mandolins

    More of the Hopf mandola:

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  7. Re: L/F recommendation: mandolin set-up & repair in So. Calif.

    Living Tree Music - http://www.livingtreemusic.com/
  8. Dylan on bluegrass in the New York Times

    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...
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    Re: Hilary Hahn: Hearing her live

    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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    Re: Stahl mandola

    [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...
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    Re: Best Bluegrass Dylan Covers?

    I like Seldom Scene's cover of "Baby Blue":


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  12. Re: Woody Guthrie, mandolin player, b. July 14, 1912

    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,...
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    Re: Jazz Mandolin History

    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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    Re: Going to Ireland

    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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    Re: George Gruhn sure likes newson mandolins

    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...
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    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...
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    1990 Hopf Mandola:

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    Recently acquired through the Cafe classifieds; tuned as an octave mandolin at the
    moment.
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    Re: Nice Weber in L.A. area

    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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    Re: Where did all the mandocello guys go ?

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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.
  20. Re: 2013 Strawberry Fall Music Festival cancelled

    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...
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