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Returning to Mandolin Mondays this week, Frédéric Bourgeois aka Tergal14 Mandolin joins for a beautiful Paddy Fahy tune played on his 1914 Gibson A4 mandolin.



Frédéric's YouTube channel Tergal14 Mandolin has continued to grow into one of the largest online Celtic mandolin lesson resources out there. And this wealth of mandolin lessons are available for free! Be sure to subscribe to the channel below. ...

This week on Mandolin Mondays we have multi-instrumentalist Pascal Ayerbe with us all the way from Paris, France, playing this beautiful original composition on his Northfield Big Mon mandolin.



Pascal began his career as a sound operator in 1999 for the national radio. With music all around him, he began to compose musics with toys and things that make noise, going on to win several important awards. He's recored and published ...

Back on Mandolin Mondays this week, we have Jacob Jolliff and his Gilchrist mandolin joining us to play perhaps the wildest version of "Dear Old Dixie" ever performed.



Since Jacob's last appearance on the series, he's recorded and released a brand new bluegrass album with his band. It's an amazing album featuring Stash Wyslouch on guitar, John Mailander on fiddle, and Myles Sloniker on bass. Definitely worth a listen--check ...

The one and only Mike Marshall returns to Mandolin Mondays this week to share an amazing performance of the Prelude from J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 on his incredible Monteleone Mandocello.



Mike has just released a new album of the entire 3rd Cello Suite--a beautiful project and another pioneering step in documenting Bach's cello music on the mandocello. Be sure to check it out here: https://mikemarshallf5.bandcamp.com/...ite-3-bwv-1009 ...

So happy to be with you all this Mandolin Monday to share a tune from the new Foreign Landers album. This is a tune called "Johnny's Peacock" and I thought it would be fun to do an 8 string duet version of this one with my Apitius Vangaurd mandolin and Octolindo S Model Deluxe octave mandolin.



The new album Travelers Rest is now out and available to stream/download on all platforms--take a listen here: https://linktr.ee/theforeignlanders ...

This week on Mandolin Mondays we have the incredible Dutch multi-instrumentalist Bertolf Lentink with us, playing an original tune called "Blueberry Blossom" on his 1950 Gibson F12 mandolin.



Bertolf is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer songwriter, and bluegrass lover from the city of Zwolle in The Netherlands. He founded the band The Junes and has toured and recorded extensively with the Dutch tribute ...

This week on Mandolin Mondays we welcome Cambridge, MA based mandolinist Jared Fischer and his 1994 Grand Classic Apitius mandolin for a very Halloween appropriate performance of J.S. Bach's famous Toccata in D minor.



Jared became fully immersed in the Bluegrass scene after moving to Denver, Colorado and discovering a vibrant, supportive community there. He played with a few different groups before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts ...

This week we've got a special video from the Peghead Nation vaults! Returning to Mandolin Mondays we have chord melody mandolinist extraordinaire Aaron Weinstein with us sharing a performance of the Ray Noble standard "The Very Thought of You" on his amazing Apitius Yorkville archtop mandolin.



Aaron needs no introduction here! His virtuoso chord melody style of playing the mandolin is like no other! Not only is he ...

Returning to Mandolin Mondays this week, we have California mandolinist Mike Mullins with us to share a beautiful original, "The Forgotten Waltz" on his newly acquired 1923 Gibson H-1 mandola. Beautiful stuff here!



San Francisco Bay Area native Mike Mullins has been a fixture on the West Coast acoustic music
scene for over 40 years. Well-known for his guitar work with the Cache Valley Drifters (Bill Griffin ...

Back on Mandolin Mondays this week we have author of the well known Mel Bay Complete Mandolinist method book Marilynn Mair with us to share a new original Etude from her recent album played on her Woodley mandolin.



For over four decades Marilynn Mair has played music across the globe, released two dozen solo and ensemble recordings, published four method books, written countless columns, and taught as a Professor of Music ...