Women with Mandolins

[Oliver A.]

Give me your tired acordians, bagpipes and tambourines and I'll learn ya' some real music, played from the heart and sung through the nose.

[MikeZito]

Kacey Musgraves

[Mark Gunter]

Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Linda Ronstadt 1974.



Ok, I confess, this is a fake, but the picture was so cool I had to add a mandolin to post it here

[maudlin mandolin]

Here are the Mandolin Sisters.

[Beanzy]

Leanne Thorose of Midnight Skyracer has a belter of a voice for Bluegrass & country singing too.

[Charles E.]

Eleven year old Libby Hall from Ohio........




I will be looking for her in the future. Great to see some of these young players these days.

[Mark Gunter]

Unknown mandolinist:

[Billgrass]

Found this painting in a friend's house:

[Steve Sorensen]

The best third trimester prenatal care!

[CES]

Great pic, Steve! Congrats to her and her hubby!!

[Bill Kammerzell]

Leanne Thorose of Midnight Skyracer has a belter of a voice for Bluegrass & country singing too.

I think her daddy Cedric Thorose made her mandolin.

http://bluegrassmusic.com/content/20...mountain-girl/

Appears to be a Thorose Mandolin in that cover photo. He's mentioned in this Cafe post as a UK builder.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/a...p/t-41020.html

[MikeZito]

Leanne Thorose of Midnight Skyracer has a belter of a voice for Bluegrass & country singing too.

As a bass player who cant sing, dance, tell jokes, juggle, do impressions or even speak coherently - I can identify with the bass player who is hidden in the background. I have played more than a few gigs where people didn't even notice me on the stage!

[ccravens]

The best third trimester prenatal care!

Boy will that kid be messed up.

Prenatal MAS and all...

[Steve Sorensen]

He'll know where to look when he's ready. Kelsi posted this pic to FB today --



Steve

[MikeEdgerton]

As a bass player who cant sing, dance, tell jokes, juggle, do impressions or even speak coherently - I can identify with the bass player who is hidden in the background. I have played more than a few gigs where people didn't even notice me on the stage!

There's a venue in Monmouth County, New Jersey where it's a small stage and the curtains behind are all black. A bass player I used to play with showed up in all black, hat, jeans, shirt. It was a little unsettling looking at the pictures afterwards. There were these hands and a face with a bass. That's all you could see.

[MikeZito]

TRUE STORY: I was playing in a three piece band at a small restaurant. The 'stage' barley fit the three of us. The two singer/guitarists were up front, and I sat on a stool between them, just about 2 feet behind. A guy was sitting at a table no more than 5 feet in front of us, carefully watching and listing to everything that we did. When we took a break he sat at the bar and talked to the two other members of the group - asking them about the group history, recordings, future gigs, etc. When he was done speaking to the other two, he turned to me and asked 'Do you work here?' He had been no more 7 or 8 feet in front of me for 20 minutes, and never saw me! The other guys in the band laughed their butts off!

I have at least a dozen other similar stories . . . .

[MikeZito]

Just stumbled upon this page: (Lots of classic pictures)

https://www.pinterest.se/pin/529524868676943043/

[mandobassman]

TRUE STORY: I was playing in a three piece band at a small restaurant. The 'stage' barley fit the three of us. The two singer/guitarists were up front, and I sat on a stool between them, just about 2 feet behind. A guy was sitting at a table no more than 5 feet in front of us, carefully watching and listing to everything that we did. When we took a break he sat at the bar and talked to the two other members of the group - asking them about the group history, recordings, future gigs, etc. When he was done speaking to the other two, he turned to me and asked 'Do you work here?' He had been no more 7 or 8 feet in front of me for 20 minutes, and never saw me! The other guys in the band laughed their butts off!

I have at least a dozen other similar stories . . . .

I imagine that's true more often than not. I'm actually fortunate that the bands that I have played bass in I am actually in front of everybody. Since I do much of the lead singing and have to leave room for other vocalists, I stand to the right of the main vocal mic and basically sing to the left of the bass neck which puts the bass out in front of everything. It's kind of hard to not see me.

[Steve Sorensen]

OK, boys, we need to get this conversation back on topic --



Steve

[Cochiti Don]

Where's Eva Holbrook?

[Mark Gunter]

Eva Holbrook is in Fort Collins, Colorado

Seriously though, this thread is 111 pages long, with 2771 posts. Go back and find all the mentions of Eva if you're interested.

[Steve Sorensen]

I love this picture of Kelsi -- mandolin going horizontal . . . not to look at the fingerboard, but because it is sitting up on that 7-1/2 month baby-bump!



Steve

[chasray]

A good sibling duo

[PiginaPen]

Carina Baker is on her way to the top.

[JeffD]

A good sibling duo

That was beautiful. A welcome change from a gazillion gnat like notes a second.