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  1. Mandolin Mondays #327 w/ Special Guest Claudine Langille

    This week on Mandolin Mondays, we have Vermont-based Celtic mandolinist Claudine Langille with us to play a fun set of Irish tunes, "The Fairy Queen," "Red-Haired Molly," and "Hardiman the Fiddler" all performed on her 1914 Gibson A4 mandolin.



    Claudine first picked up a mandolin in 1976 when a traveling musician from Scotland put one in her hands, saying “Try this-it’s way easier than guitar.” ...
  2. Mandolin Mondays #323 /// "The Goat that Ate the Cabbage Plants"

    Wishing you a happy early St. Patrick's Day from Northern Ireland this week on Mandolin Mondays! Here's a fun Irish jig I recently learned called "The Goat that Ate the Cabbage Plants" that could have been written for our little friend here.



    I've got a free pdf tab/notation transcription for all the notes I played in this video right here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NCX...ew?usp=sharing ...
  3. Mandolin Mondays #255 w/ Special Guest Tom Kimber

    Check out Tom Kimber from Newcastle, England here with us on Mandolin Mondays this week. Incredible original jig played on his killer Davidson F5 Mandolin.



    Tom is a Newcastle Upon-Tyne based multi-instrumentalist who specialises in fretted strings and is most often seen playing mandolin and tenor banjo, as well as tenor guitar and mandola.

    Originally from Bath, he reached the final stages ...

    Updated Nov-23-2020 at 7:53am by dbmandolin

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  4. Mandolin Mondays #219 w/ Special Guest Martin Howley

    We Banjo 3 mandolinist Martin Howley just about plays the finish off of this Collings MF5 with some burning Irish triplets this week on Mandolin Mondays.



    Originally from Ireland, Martin now resides in Nashville, TN. He's won 7 “All Ireland” contest titles and was the first Irish banjo player to play the hallowed Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Over the years, he has performed with such artists as the Chieftains, ...