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    Here is the programme for this year's Mandopolis.

    http://www.mandopolis.org/?p=1542

    I'm really looking forward to seeing the Melonious Quartet.

    I see the man who makes their amazing instruments - Andre Sakeliarides - has a stand on Sunday. That'll be good.
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    Terrific music and playing, hope the gigs go well, Dagger.

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    What you taking - Sobell or Collings?

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    Sobell. That's still what I mainly use for gigging, and I think it's better for solo things in particular. The bass D comes in handy.
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    yup, hard to beat the old Sobells, wonder how many he actually made?
    cheers D, KHJM

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    Mine sounds better than ever actually. Just done my usual trick of applying clear nail varnish to the most scratched-up bits on the top.

    Plan to spend much of the evening playing it. Fantastic weather in the North of Scotland. Going to sit outside and think what I'm going to play at Mandopolis. Better have some French wine to help my thought processes!
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    Nice! Wish I could just drop round for a tune - its been years, sadly. Slainte!
    Just found this, and was remembering Ian, so sad ....

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    Bloody good. Really good recording actually.

    I know you were sad when you did that, but hey- you'll need to try to smile a bit more when you're playing!

    Will never stop playing Ian Hardie's tunes. ( For those who don't know what we are talking about, we lost a mutual friend and fiddle player called Ian Hardie last October. He wrote a lot of really great tunes and was a great friend. It still sits heavily with us to have lost him so young).

    Anyway, I'm getting in the groove out here enjoying the long Highland daylight hours, the French wine and my Sobell 10- string!

    But gimme a shout when you're up in Achiltibuie. We MUST have a tune soon.

    Slainte
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    Everyone says that about my mug! My brain is fully occupied trying to play, and everything else gets left in stasis!
    Yes, will be over at the Summer Isles Festival doing a set with Ali Beag and a session, should be fun. Shoogles are headlining it.
    cheers! Kevin

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    Wow Kevin, that was beautiful.

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    Thanks! But its a bit out of place in this thread .....

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    That's the beauty of threads, Kevin. They can be unravelled! Great recording and playing as always.

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    The Sardinian mandola player Mauro Palmas will be at Mandopolis on Friday night.

    He looks to be a pretty interesting musician.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4LyTor0Uq8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dagger Gordon View Post
    The Sardinian mandola player Mauro Palmas will be at Mandopolis on Friday night.

    He looks to be a pretty interesting musician.
    Yes, he plays some wonderful music. I saw him live at Rudolstadt festival in 2010 together with the sardinian singer Elena Ledda.
    Until June 13 you can hear the whole concert daily on the webchannel "Folk in Concert" of the german station "MDR-Figaro". They always have two shows online on a rotating basis. In the moment it´s "The Leningrad Cowboys" and Elena Ledda with Mauro Palmas.

    Livestream: http://avw.mdr.de/livestreams/mdr_figaro_folk_128.m3u

    Website: http://www.mdr.de/mdr-figaro/webchan...ikel57100.html

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    Beautiful 'telepathic' music on this video :^). I believe this is a choro tune also called Corta Jaca
    by Chiquinha Gonzaga from about 1910

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    Mandopolis starts tomorrow. Going to be just great.
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    Dagger,

    Be sure to post a report on how the recent festival worked out. I would like to visit it at some time in the future. Did you get a chance to try out the mandolins that the Melonius Quartet favour? They certainly look interesting although I've never seen one close at hand.

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    Yes I had a great time.

    Andre their luthier was there himself and I did have a chance to try his stuff out. Really quite different - bear in mind that he is primarily a violin maker.

    The Melonious Quartet played a magnificent gig in the local hall where at one point they each played a new instrument made by Andre - ie two new mandolins, a new mandola and a new mandocello.

    There was some lovely music to be heard from Italy, Spain, India, Brazil and of course Scotland! I'm pretty knackered just now but I will comment further on the festival later.

    One point to make though: the festival is quite small and is free. That is entirely the charm of it and they don't seem to be interested in a big event at all.
    They are therefore almost entirely dependent on local government funding and obviously in these straitened times it is by no means certain how long the festival will continue.

    So I'm really happy to have had the chance to go. I think that The Melonious Quartet are absolutely fantastic. Incredibly subtle and beautiful music played with tremendous virtuosity on wonderful instruments. It is beyond me why they are not much better known - although it is true that their presence on the web is frustratingly small which may be part of it.

    A wonderful weekend. There were some other lovely performances of which more later, and some really nice people to spend time with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dagger Gordon View Post
    Yes I had a great time.

    Andre their luthier was there himself and I did have a chance to try his stuff out. Really quite different - bear in mind that he is primarily a violin maker.

    The Melonious Quartet played a magnificent gig in the local hall where at one point they each played a new instrument made by Andre - ie two new mandolins, a new mandola and a new mandocello.

    There was some lovely music to be heard from Italy, Spain, India, Brazil and of course Scotland! I'm pretty knackered just now but I will comment further on the festival later.

    One point to make though: the festival is quite small and is free. That is entirely the charm of it and they don't seem to be interested in a big event at all.
    They are therefore almost entirely dependent on local government funding and obviously in these straitened times it is by no means certain how long the festival will continue.

    So I'm really happy to have had the chance to go. I think that The Melonious Quartet are absolutely fantastic. Incredibly subtle and beautiful music played with tremendous virtuosity on wonderful instruments. It is beyond me why they are not much better known - although it is true that their presence on the web is frustratingly small which may be part of it.

    A wonderful weekend. There were some other lovely performances of which more later, and some really nice people to spend time with.

    Hi Dagger,

    Nice reading this report...
    You just need to come back one more time to see what the Serenades look like in their real environment...

    It's true that we don't want the Mandopolis Festival to grow bigger and bigger.
    Not only because it's hard to raise funding... But mainly because we want the festival to fit the place, and Puget-Théniers is not a place for a big event. And we want to be different, and that's why people come there. (Puget-Théniers is about 1 hour from Nice in the mountains...).
    We want it better and better, we don't need stars or mandolin heroes, we want to offer high quality in great places with a great sound...

    And we don't know how long it will last !

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    Bang the drum slowly, boys. Great stuff.
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    Whether you slow your roll or mash on it, enjoy the ride.

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    Diptanshu Roy has some good Mandoplis pix on Facebook

    https://www.facebook.com/diptanshu.r...8032467&type=3
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    Fascinating stuff - some fine instruments there and so nice to see everything outdoors.

    Happy to have a wee friday gathering in Springwell the day before the festival.

    KHJM

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    A wee clip has emerged of what happens when a Scotsman, an Indian and (near the end!) a Frenchman have a jam.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=A1eKkYY0KhY
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    All this just makes me more determined to try and get there next year - especially now that i'm based not so far away.

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