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January 7, 2009

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We're giving away 10 free tickets to the David Grisman Quintet appearance in Seattle. They're doing six shows in four days at the famous Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle, January 15-18. >> How to win free tickets (you must be a member of our message board).

Lloyd Loar

For sale: this newly discovered Lloyd Loar mandolin, serial #76782. Found in Lawrence, Kansas. First one in this state we've ever heard of.

A luthiers workshop: build your very own mandolin in four days, with veteran luthier Rick Turner in Oakland, California, January 31 - February 1, 7 & 8.

See it: Weber ships 10th anniversary mandolin.

Bill Monroe's mandolin to stay at Country Music Hall of Fame. Settlement reached.

Sam Bush, Don Stiernberg, Mike Marshall, Caterina Lichtenberg and the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra in concert: It's Mando Magnificat, March 7, 2009 in Evanston, Illinois.

Interesting piece of history: The Joe Val Loar for sale.

Stolen: a Gypsy Music Octave Mandolin in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Today on this day in mandolin history: January 7, 1933, WWVA Wheeling Jamboree began. More history...

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Holiday reading: can't make the Grisman shows in Seattle? Neither can we, but you can read this summer's David Grisman interview, one of the most widely read Cafe articles of all time, by Bill Graham.

New publication: Siminoff's Luthiers Glossary.

With 2009 right around the corner, we've ramped up our mandolin workshops and camps page with over 70 entries. Make plans now to attend an event of your choosing. And you camp/workshop organizers, get busy and update your web sites! We know who you are, and we won't list you until you do.

Stolen: Breedlove Quartz, Columbus, Ohio.

Luthiers are more than just instrument makers, they are also keepers of an alternate time zone. Bill Graham's Beyond My Time.

New music from Charles Hunt: The Cabin Hunter's Mandolin. Hear a cut on the Cafe MP3 page.

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