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İZMIR, TURKEY — Bulent Yazici and Ender Bilge have announced the release of their new recording, Munier & Calace: Works for Two Mandolins, Mandola and Guitar, now available on most prominent streaming platforms.

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The long anticipated Simon Mayor recording Carolan, Fantasias on Themes by Turlough O'Carolan is being officially released today.

About the music on the album, Mayor wrote in his liner notes "I remember well the first time I heard the music of the Irish harper and composer Turlough O'Carolan ...

France based mandolinists Bernard Minari and Daniel Portalès have announced the release of their second album entitled Mando Duo Volume 2, an album of 12 original compositions available for purchase from the artists on Bandcamp.

On the album the duo uses mandocello, ...

The Choro Shop, Tools and Resources for Choro Musicians, is the creation of Andrew Lawrence, founder of Choro Camp New England (in 2019) and Django in June (in 2003). Open less than a month, the new online store is designed to serve the U.S. choro community and those interested in learning this unique style of Brazilian music that heavily favors mandolins and other stringed instruments. The store offers quality, used ...

FAIRFAX, CALIF. — Peghead Nation has announced the launch of their new Swing and Jazz Mandolin track led by Joe K. Walsh.

In the course, students will have the opportunity to learn to play swing and jazz melodies and classic solos from jazz ...

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — The music of the Irish harper and composer Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) is now the subject of two additional mandolin workshops recently announced and led by English mandolin legend Simon Mayor.

Following an immediate sellout of his March ...

BOSTON, MASS. — Brazilian mandolinist Ian Coury has announced the availability of his new recording project entitled Bora Brazil, available for streaming on Spotify (subscription required). Containing nine compositions with a brilliant ensemble backing him, Coury delivers an encore performance that shows why he is considered one of the finest mandolinists on today's scene.

Already a seasoned performer with awards too numerous to list, he teaches his Brazilian Choro Mandolin course online at Peghead Nation. Originally from Brasil's capital city of Brasília, where he began playing mandolin at age eight, in 2019 Ian received a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where, in his second year, he received the String Department Award.

On the recording Ian is joined by Felipe Viegas, Juninho Alvarenga, Pedro ...

NORTHAMPTON, MASS. — Organizers of Choro Camp New England have announced this year's dates, June 26 - July 2 on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The event offers North Americans an opportunity to learn and play choro as it is played in Brazil with the support ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of Eastern Grass in download format by Radim Zenkl, master musician from the Czech Republic, returning this time to Acoustic Disc with his fellow countryman Ondra Kozák.

Both artists are multi-instrumentalists ...

ABINGDON, VIRG. — Registration has opened for the 10th Annual Monroe Mandolin Camp, September 20-24 at the Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon, minutes from Bristol, Tenn.

At the Monroe Mandolin Camp, original, traditional roots bluegrass music is played, taught, ...

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Registration is now open for the February 25 Isaac Eicher Jazz Mandolin Workshop via Zoom with special guest Jason Anick from Berklee College of Music.

The workshop is 3 hours long and starts ...

PORTLAND, MAINE — Ethan Setiawan has announced a March 31 release date for his new album of all original music entitled Gambit, being released on Adhyâropa Records.

About the new recording Ethan told us, "Gambit is a collection of my tunes with a group of friends and heroes I was lucky to ...

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — The 2023 San Diego Classical Mandolin Camp, led by classical mandolinist, composer and educator Chris Acquavella will take place August 14-19, 2023 at Handlery Hotel San Diego.

The 10th Annual Camp will explore the depth and breadth of the classical mandolin, from baroque ...

Milwaukee, Wisc. — Registration for Carlo Aonzo's 21st Edition U.S. Mandolin Workshop held June 15-18 have been announced with Rene Izquierdo once again serving as Assistant Conductor.

A limited number of spots in the workshop are available and as in past years, a sellout is expected. ...

BOSTON — East Coast acoustic and electric mandolin mainstay Jimmy Ryan returns with a new project from his band The Nocturnal Adoration Society entitled All The Time in The World.

About the recording, Ryan told us, "We recorded the entire record remotely. ...

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of David Grisman Dawg Works Volume 4.

This fourth volume of the collected original compositions of David "Dawg" Grisman is comprised of works written between 1991 and 1999, compiled chronologically in the order in which ...

PORTLAND, MAINE — Adhyâropa Records has announced the release of the highly anticipated Joe K. Walsh recording entitled If Not Now, Who?

Joined by fellow acoustic music greats Grant Gordy, Matt Flinner (on banjo!), John Mailander, Ella Jordan and Karl Doty, the music on If Not Now, Who? showcases Joe's lyrical gift not only ...

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. — Roots & Boots Music Camp, Arizona's first 4-day immersion camp for adult students for the study and enjoyment of acoustic music styles will be held June 7-11 at the base of the magnificent San Francisco Peaks at Camp Colton.

The camp focuses on bluegrass, folk, ...

CHARLTON, MASS. — Registration has opened for the 2023 Mandolin Camp North, held April 21-23 in Charlton, Mass. at the Prindle Pond Conference Center.

The camp features total mandolin immersion with workshops, jamming, and personal interaction with some of the top performers in the roots music world ...

BLOOMINGTON, IND. — The 10th Annual Jim Richter Mandolin Camp for the Rest of Us featuring Don Julin and Mike Compton will be held July 12-15, 2023 at the Grant Street Inn.

The camp welcomes this year's sponsors Kimble Mandolins and the Grant Street Inn.

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Rehearse-study-jam-perform at the Pacific Northwest's only mandolin-guitar ensemble festival. Or just hear the concerts in fabulous Astoria!

ASTORIA, ORE. — The First Annual Cascadia Mandolin-Guitar Festival will be held here June 8-11, 2023 and will feature a ...

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Street Singer Productions has announced the official release date for, John Monteleone: The Chisels Are Calling.

Set to be available digitally via Apple TV/iTunes, Amazon Video and Google Play on Thursday, December 15, the feature-length documentary film is ...

Déo Rian, President of the Jacob do Bandolim Institute with Elisa Meyer Ferreira and with Jacob do Bandolim's Mandolin No. 2.

Jacob do Bandolim with Bandolim No. 2.

Many of us started the mandolin in a fit of passion, overwhelmed after hearing a live performance or recording of a famous player. Sometimes it's just a perfect fit, where the listener has an overwhelming desire to learn how to play an instrument to get that sound. This is just such a story.

Elisa Meyer Ferreira loves the music of Jacob do Bandolim. She even uses the moniker "Elisa Bandolim" online. She's well known to regular readers of Mandolin Cafe articles as the mandolin player in the Choro band "Choro Das 3," joined by her sisters ...

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — The music of the Irish harper and composer Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) will be the subject of a three day mandolin retreat led by English mandolin great Simon Mayor on March 10-12, 2023 at Kenwood Hall, a luxury conference venue, hotel and spa just one mile ...