The Providence Mandolin Orchestra (PMO) will return to live performance with a benefit concert (free will offering) on the lawn at North Meadow Farm, 158 East Old Route 6, Hampton CT, on Sunday,...
The Providence Mandolin Orchestra (PMO) will return to live performance with a benefit concert (free will offering) on the lawn at North Meadow Farm, 158 East Old Route 6, Hampton CT, on Sunday,...
This has no mandolin content but Pat does talk about Jaco and he is known for playing an instrument with string "courses". I hope that's justification enough...
https://youtu.be/QEgalcH_-b4
My mandolin here is Peter Coombe #248 (separate thread elsewhere). Tune is from Sweden and was supposedly played for Al Capone repeatedly in Chicago. The source insisted he played this for Mr. Capone...
Wound up with this beautiful Peter Coombe mandolin this past week. Spent both yesterday and today playing it at gigs. Played and sounds like a dream. Definitely not a Gibson tone. But with the music...
Hey classical mandolin fans! I've been practicing Wohlfahrt's violin etudes on mandolin for a while now, and I've just posted a video of a couple of these short pieces on YouTube. This is my first...
The tune in that Iowa schottische is one we would know as The Keel Row (said to be of Tyneside origin) and often played after Brochan Lom and followed by Katie Bairdie/Kafoozalum.
This is a performance of Eden Macadam-Somer's lovely bluegrass/old-time-inspired, "Homeward Bound," by the New American Mandolin Ensemble (NAME) from a concert in Steenwijk, The Netherlands, in early...
Hi JIm!
Thanks for the compliments, I appreciate people reaching out.
Sorry you had to have patience for me to respond - I don't attend this forum on a regular basis.
To answer your two...
'Music From the Promised Land", Adam Levin (guitar) and Jacob Reuven's (mandolin) landmark recording on Naxos reached #1 on this week's Billboard Classical ranking. (#2 is a new release by YoYo Ma...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGj5MONmdlE
I don't have much to add beyond what's been discussed above. Essentially, there's lots abrew in contemporary mandolin composition.
In the mandolin–guitar domain, "Chili con Tango" and "Nowhere...
"Does anyone write for mandolin now ? i would like to hear some mandolin/guitar stuff , as i'm a composer and would like to see whats out there."
I will interpret this as a request for information...
I have been posting home videos of Victor Kioulaphides' very beautiful "Suite for Ali" to my YT channel -- thus far, #1 (Prelude), #2 (Allemande), #4 ("Sarabande"), and #5 ("Gigue"). The mic(s)/mic...
Thanks for the compliments! I do spend a lot of time on my research and writing it all up.
I sometimes worry some readers might find things too long and detailed. But breaking things up in small...
Hi all,
I've published a rather large blog post concerning a dark horse of mandolin history: the mandolin in Portugal (ca. 1770-1830).
Besides listing some sources already discovered by...
I recently had the privilege of playing in the mandola section for a virtual (composite video) performance by the United Mandolin & Guitar Orchestra of André Herteux's COVID-inspired composition,...
I'm planning to make an octave mandolin for the first time. I have guitar, banjo and ukulele making experience, but most of that was a long time ago. I want to make a simple unadorned flat top...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9h6WkEMBmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9h6WkEMBmk
Here is one of my compositions performed by the Baltimore mandolin Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbr4zcVIM88
THE PENULTIMATE RECORDING! It's hard to believe there's only a single movement left in this project, 14 months after I laid down the first Prelude! This is the other song that I've kind of known...
Sorry... fell a little behind posting my recent recordings! This one wasn't as fun for me. It's really hard to get the different melodic lines to come through, and the fingerings and playability of...
Dear mandolinist friends around the world,
what a year this has been! Looking back at the time that has elapsed since last spring, it may at first seem interminable. To put this ordeal in some...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4OOYp-5ic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4OOYp-5ic
I've very much enjoyed listening to Peter's podcast. I dug up a profile I wrote of him for Mandozine in 1996.
...
Hi all,
I've posted a new blog article about my latest find. I discovered two manuscripts with music for mandolin and orchestra (violin 1, 2, viola, basso, flutes 1&2, horns 1&2) from Ernest...