The guitar is courtesy of guitar pro...:mandosmiley:
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The guitar is courtesy of guitar pro...:mandosmiley:
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I just got the news from other bandmates that Bill died, apparently from a Heart Attack while bicycling. As a bandmate of nearly 20 years I am dumbstruck, Bill was only 74, younger by 3 years than...
Multi-instrumentalist Dix Bruce passed away in January. He wrote Gypsy Swing and Hot Club Rhythm for both mandolin and guitar, among many other instructional books. There is a free livestream of his...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKVvm8Yfg2M
These are two Baroque bourrées by Henry Purcell, the first in G major and the second in A minor. Originally for harpsichord, adapted for mandolins and tenor guitar.
Thanks to Nigel Gatherer for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIvRSuFCLZA&t=501s
I lived very close to Rick's shop on the west side of Santa Cruz. I walked by countless times and stoped in many, many times. Often the rollup door to the actual shop would be open and I would...
I want to relate a short story about a well known Ukrainian tune. It is called The Nightingale.
In 2008 up in Montreal I attended a week long klezmer music camp where among the many world renown...
The problem with “shorthand” chord terminology is that it can be used ambiguously. We all understand that C7 means Cdom7, but I see now people using C2 to mean Csus2 as well as Cadd2, Cadd9
Try 5250 (c-e-d-e) or 5253 (c-e-d-g).
Magic! Still hoping to see them on their reunion tour. Good to be reminded how good Paul is on mandolin actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM6-WvSItuc
Carlo played this many years on his VHS performance tape. This is his recent recording of this lovely Calace piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw3uUUwUeU
I agree that this is disappointing. I know that the San Diego folks have put so much work into preparation and several great events were planned. (The Rudy Cipolla celebration comes first to mind.)
...
Well Lloyd got to see his superior instruments in use first hand at gigs, the music of the day was now a whole lot louder and toney! Loar had the freedom to play for Gibson as well right, so he was a...
https://youtu.be/jbTfiQ_8RAc
This is a piece from one of my favourite mandolin books: "A Variety Of Mandolin Music", a collection of 36 mandolin pieces from the BMG Magazine (re-)published in 1975 by Clifford Essex in London,...
Hearing Peter Ostroushko on Prairie Home is one of my first memories as a beginning mandolin player. My wife's family know the Ostroushkos as she grew up in the Twin Cities. Yesterday she recalled...
"Everyone is part of the deal" - That's one of his themes; everyone is included. Peter would have everyone crying at the Prairie Home Companion show because they were invited to sing "You are My...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg9bA92rDno&list=PLLE3RjZPSfbI48PmptBiA4dkykNWLyfVR
One of the best. The linked video is a great rendition of "Russian Rag" with the Modern Mandolin Quartet, joined...
I posted a video a few weeks ago elsewhere in the Cafe of my solo arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s “Oblivion” which I performed on mandola in G (octave mandolin). My brother-in-law, Raymond...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhr2D6AZSy4
https://youtu.be/QzAaCHkRIFc
The song was a leitmotiv of Pietro Germi's movie "Il cammino della speranza."
In 1950, Pietro was in Sicily to start filming his movie. One day at Favara,
where...
An original work for mandola in G (octave mandolin), John Goodin wrote “The Autumn After” for Alison Stephens and her Embergher instrument, affectionately nicknamed “the Beast”. Alison performed it...
Really Sweet Kuno ! :mandosmiley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTNEzDsX3Jc&feature=youtu.be
i am sure this is not the first time, this song has been recorded.
...for me it is.
https://youtu.be/kTNEzDsX3Jc