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    Monroe Mandolin Camp 2nd Annual Video Scholarship Competition Winner Announced 

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    Published on Jul-26-2016 6:30pm  Views: 5913 
    Monroe Mandolin Camp Announces 2nd Annual Video Scholarship Competition Winner


    Nashville, Tenn. — The Monroe Mandolin Camp, a traditional roots based music camp offering world class instruction on the music of the Founder of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, is proud to announce the winner of the 2nd Annual Video Scholarship Competition, generously underwritten by Intelometry.

    Congratulations to Dylan Ferris from British Columbia, playing Bill Monroe's classic, "Southern Flavor." ...
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    D'Addario and Planet Waves NS Micro Soundhole Tuner 

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    Published on May-11-2016 9:45am  Views: 4729 
    D'Addario and Planet Waves Announces NS Micro Soundhole Tuner

    Farmingdale, N.Y. — D'Addario and Planet Waves has announced the availability of their NS Micro Soundhole Tuner.

    This version of their popular NS Micro tuner is designed specifically for oval hole acoustic instruments including guitars, octave mandolins, mandocellos, mandolas, citterns, bouzoukis and most (oval hole) mandolins.

    As part of the design, the chromatic ...
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    Roger Siminoff Announces Retirement 

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    Published on Apr-15-2016 7:00am  Views: 6133 
    Roger Siminoff Announces Retirement

    Amy Sullivan and Kali Nowakowski to Expand Straight Up Strings Division.

    Atascadero, Calif. — Luthier, Orville Gibson and Lloyd Loar historian, inventor, and acoustician, Roger Siminoff, has announced that he will retire this month and steadily phase out Siminoff Banjo and Mandolin Parts.
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    Mandolin Cafe Announces Launch of Banjo Cafe 

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    Published on Apr-01-2016 7:00am  Views: 11812 
    Banjo Cafe


    Lawrence, Kans. — The Mandolin Cafe is proud to announce the launch of the Banjo Cafe at banjocafe.net, its companion web site for banjo.

    The Banjo Cafe will be administered by Charlie Schwartz of Lawrence, Kans., a long-time friend of the Mandolin Cafe.

    Under construction for the past ...
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    Carter Vintage Guitars Accepting Orders For Gilchrist Instruments 

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    Published on Feb-13-2016 2:00pm  Views: 7350 
    Carter Vintage Guitars Accepting Orders For Gilchrist Instruments

    Orders for newly crafted instruments from the workshop of Stephen Gilchrist are being taken exclusively from Carter Vintage Guitars of Nashville.

    Nashville, Tenn. — Carter Vintage Guitars, Nashville's premier vintage instrument store and distributor ...
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    Tarantino's Hateful Eight Destroys Museum Martin 

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    Published on Feb-06-2016 6:30pm  Views: 15435 
    Tarantino's Hateful Eight Destroys Museum Martin

    Author Bradley Klein owns the production company Twangbox®, creating multimedia stories about music, musicians and musical Instruments.


    The Hateful Eight is a violent movie, written and directed by a man who has made an art form out of reinterpreting violent cinematic genres.

    Quentin Tarantino debuted with 1992's Reservoir Dogs, exploded with Pulp Fiction a couple years later, and continues to experiment with westerns, martial arts flicks, and police dramas ...
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    ArtistWorks Launches Caterina Lichtenberg's School of Classical Mandolin 

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    Published on Jan-26-2016 4:30pm  Views: 7575 
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    Caterina Lichtenberg's highly anticipated School of Classical Mandolin launched today.



    Napa, Calif. — Mandolin virtuoso Caterina Lichtenberg teams up with ArtistWorks this week to launch online music lessons a year in the making. After seeing the popularity ...
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    Peghead Nation Launches Mike Compton's Monroe-Style Mandolin Courses 

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    Published on Nov-25-2015 8:30am  Views: 6981 
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    Fairfax, Calif. — Peghead Nation has announced the addition of Mike Compton to their instructional staff with a brand new video course entitled Monroe-Style Mandolin.

    Compton joins a talented and rapidly growing instructional team ...
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    California Bluegrass Association Seeks Instruments for Kids 

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    Published on Nov-19-2015 9:00am  Views: 5909 
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    EDITOR'S NOTE: The Mandolin Cafe has long been an enthusiastic supporter of The California Bluegrass Association, and in particular, their Youth Instrument Lending Library.

    Over the years we've helped them secure new instruments by getting them in touch with people that contact us in regards to donations, and at times we've ...
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    Paul Glasse Accepting Students for Online Lessons 

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    Published on Nov-18-2015 8:00am  Views: 4266 
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    Paul Glasse, well known in the mandolin world for his widely acclaimed jazz-tinged recordings has announced he is offering online lessons via Skype.

    Students will be accepted at all levels: beginner through advanced on acoustic or electric mandolin, mandola or ...
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    Bobby Osborne GHS Strings with NitroPack Packaging 

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    Published on Oct-19-2015 3:00pm  Views: 5241 
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    Battle Creek, Mich. — GHS Strings has announced they've extended their NitroPack packaging to their Bobby Osborne A260 Signature Series mandolin sets along with all other strings in their product line including all sets for mandolin, mandola, octave mandolin, banjo, guitar, bouzouki ...
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    Straight Up Strings Announces Guitar Strings 

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    Published on Sep-24-2015 1:30pm  Views: 4519 
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    Atascadero, Calif. — The Straight Up Strings product line, developed by luthier and acoustician, Roger Siminoff, now includes steel string guitar strings. Straight Up Strings for Guitar, in light, medium and heavy gauges, will debut at IBMA's World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC, with demonstrations at the IBMA Business Conference Trade Show, Booth #106, Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday, ...
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    Adam Steffey and Will MacMorran Join East Tennessee State University Faculty 

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    Published on Aug-19-2015 8:00am  Views: 5599 
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    Johnson City, Tenn. - Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University has announced the hiring of two new lecturers, Adam Steffey and Will MacMorran. ...
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    The Chicago Choro Club Classes at The Musical Offering 

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    Published on Aug-17-2015 4:43pm  Views: 2169 
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    Evanston, Ill. — September 13, 2015 will be the launch of the Chicago Choro Club at the Musical Offering, a community music school in Evanston.

    The Chicago Choro Club will feature weekly group classes divided by instrument and/or role in a typical choro ...
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