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I've just renewed my wordpress subscription to keep "The Irish Mandolin" up and running for another year. Many thanks to the very kind and generous souls out there who have made the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rLkgpH0Vo

Just a heads up to anyone who might've missed it - Marla Fibish was live on Peghead Nation's Facebook page yesterday (the recording of it can be watched if ye missed it) and while there was some...

Here’s a fiairly new tune I wrote called Over and Out. It basically a blues with a bridge, in the key of F. I made a simple iPhone video of myself playing the melody and the very talented Aaron...

Since shattering my kneecap in early December I've been housebound, so already used to "sheltering in place". Playing a lot of mandolin and tenor banjo, when I can (when it's quiet out - still far...

Jenn Butterworth and Laura Beth Salter are lecturers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This concert broadcast from home isolation in Glasgow, and complete with fine mandolin content, was just...

If there's any way you can avoid this travel right now, dear Bill, please stay right where you are. I know none of us are used to living in such a situation, but it's a fact that the choices each of...

Billy Strings is - of course - all shades of bad (_*_)

The mandolin player in this recent set ain't bad either!!! I'm taking notes. Or trying to!


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There is a very nice irish trad album by Michael Kerry called The Rocky Road with some fine mandolin playing.

RIP. One of the greats. I had the pleasure of having him in my home for a day of recording a couple of years back. It's an experience I'll never forget.

There's dozens of great videos of Arty...

Just today. And I sneezed in front of a wall of banjos, and even with my mouth covered, they self played a bar of Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

I’ve never believed there is any “right” or “wrong” way to hold the pick. Just use whatever is the most efficient way to get the tone and speed you are trying to achieve. While I see lots of great...

This is good.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/craft-and-graft-of-a-dublin-guitar-maker-1.3864724?fbclid=IwAR3Pzxo2QvGkzmlXUZxGtCo5JlNmCyqHVgbsDm0V2Btwo_r0pM9lankaIfQ

I love this group so much...

Enjoy!
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not much to add to this other than to say there is a lot to like about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0kefEVR56U&list=RDx0kefEVR56U&start_radio=1

Here's something sorta western-swingy for your enjoyment - original music by my friend Ben Benedict.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1azbBlIQnQ

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One of our local elementary schools shared this video of a mandolin welcoming students back to school. :)

That sometimes you just have to decide to play an instrument, even if your picking buddies want to hear you play a different instrument.

Wish I had stuck with mandolin a decade ago and not just...

Hoping the best for you Ivan,,I've enjoyed all of your posts,except this one...

Behavior that's reinforced goes up in frequency - every time someone "bites the bullet" and continues to go to that shop despite poor treatment they then end up unintentionally helping to make that...

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I’ve always believed that the neck joint, on a fretted instrument, should be as rigid as possible. The aim of the game is to ensure that the kinetic energy, from the movement of the player’s hand, is...

Not sure if this has been linked to already but if not here it is. The audio is slightly out of sync with the video for some reason.
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of course they are awesome, but this is too fun, the guy playing percussion on the wood stool is right with them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HiT8u7GqE

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I will never forget the phone call I got from my mother saying that my father took his life. Regardless of the fact that we hadn't spoken in 10 years, it was (and still is) incredibly devastating....