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Dear Appreciators of Ragtime Mandolin,

This is Nick Robinson for the Ragtime Skedaddlers.

We're getting ready to release our third CD, The Latest Popular Mandolin and Guitar Music.

I'm...

I saw this book at the annual San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins. It looks great. Spiral bound, both standard notation and mando-tab, notes on the tunes, some historic photos. Gus Garelick is a...

Here's the Ragtime Skedaddlers playing a medley of Hawaiian marches, as performed by P.K. Lua & D. Kaili, arranged for two mandolins and guitar by Louis Tacaben, published by Carl Fischer in 1916.
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Ragtime-ized choro?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY0B_zxZo9A&feature=share&list=PLqJljtmrUr5mhEznBvWVrXH4BlJ2Pq7ab&index=2

Dennis Pash's former group, The Etcetera String Band, released a now out-of-print CD of Caribbean music arranged for strings and percussion. Read about it in this rave review on Lanny Fields' Six...

Yes both Dennis Pash and Kevin Sanders of the Etcetera String Band were also in The Leopards. Their Kansas City Slickers lp has been reissued, http://www.singsingrecords.com/leopards.php. Also their...

The "Jazz Lives" blog features an excellent post on the Ragtime Skedaddlers at

http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/the-ragtime-skedaddlers-a-fine-time-at-cline-wine-july-2013/

The blog...

Charles L. Johnson is on the far right, seen here with the Walton Mandolin Club:

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During the ragtime era, a bunch of Johnson's tunes were arranged for two mandolins and guitar in Whitney...

Okay but I'll continue to believe that the mandolin player Charles L. Johnson first came up with the melody to Dill Pickles while fooling around on his mandolin, even if his publisher put it out for...

Some rags and cakewalks published during the ragtime era in the string oriented periodicals and by publishers who specialized in string music were probably not published for piano.

Some useful...

Great discussion. Reminds me of a Max Morath quote on the subject of tempo: "Is it better to play ragtime fast or slow?" "YES!"

I don't care too much about where we talk about ragtime on the cafe...

Caribbean music on mandolin? Sure. I posted some videos of Dennis Pash on banjo-mandolin playing some Haitian meringues with his old Etcetera String Band-mate Kevin Sanders on guitar, Al Brune on 2nd...

Jim, That Maple Leaf Champions medley sounds great... can you post a link to any recordings? -- Nick Robinson

Mandolin Cafe friends:
Here's a gift from the Ragtime Skedaddlers!

Two by Uncle Charlie, a free downloadable 2-track album, is available at:
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Kenny Hall will be featured on a forthcoming CD by the Skiffle Symphony. This may be our last best chance to get new recordings by this unique master of American mandolin music. Kenny's almost ninety...

For ragtime sheet music on the web, the sources Jacob recommends are great. See also:

Classic Ragtime Piano which has links to sheet music and short essays about various ragtime genres and...

I posted a few new videos of the Ragtime Skedaddlers playing tunes from their new CD, Mandolins at the Cake Walk, at the San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins on April 29, 2012.

Peacherine Rag
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Yes definitely Stephen Parker's book, http://elderly.com/books/items/686-1.htm, get it while they last. Another ragtime string band CD you might enjoy is A Ragtime Episode by Clarke Buehling and the...

The new CD by the Ragtime Skedaddlers, Mandolins at the Cake Walk, is now available for download at http://ragtimeskedaddlers.bandcamp.com/. There's 3 free tracks, the rest are $1 each or $10 to...

Here's a video of the Ragtime Skedaddlers performing The Entertainer in the 1903 arrangement for two mandolins and guitar issued by Joplin's publisher, John Stark.

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The sheet music...

MANDOLIN MELODIES: BALLO LISCIO DANCE MUSIC FROM THE 1890S THROUGH THE 1960S by Sheri Mignano Crawford is a great compilation of mostly traditional Italian tunes that were in the repertoires of SF...

Thanks for the tip to FIGA -- I'll check them out.

We do some of our own arranging but are almost always happier with the original 2 mandolin and guitar arrangements when we're lucky enough to...

Thanks Greg... we already have the piano score.

We're specifically looking for the 2nd mandolin and guitar parts for Dill Pickles from the Whitney-Warner Mandolin & Guitar Collection No. 7 (1909)...

The Ragtime Skedaddlers need the following parts:

From Whitney Warner Mandolin and Guitar Collection Number 4

Happy Heine - need guitar

From Whitney Warner Mandolin and Guitar Collection...