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  1. Providence Mandolin Orchestra Benefit Concert, 8-29-2021

    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,...
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    Re: The amazing Jaco Pastorius

    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
  3. Al Capone's Waltz on Peter Coombe Classical Flattop

    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...
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    NMD - Peter Coombe classical flattop

    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...
  5. Wohlfahrt: Studies for the Violin, Op. 45

    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...
  6. Thread: Schottische

    by Bren
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    Re: Schottische

    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.
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    Homeward Bound by Eden Macadam-Somer

    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...
  8. Re: The mandolin in Portugal (ca. 1770-1830)

    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...
  9. Levin/Reuven top this week's Billboard /Classical!

    '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...
  10. Billy Strings - "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" with Del McCoury

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGj5MONmdlE
  11. Thread: Modern writing?

    by Eugene
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    Re: Modern writing?

    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...
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    Re: Modern writing?

    "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...
  13. Victor Kioulaphides, "Suite for Ali": Movements 1, 2, 4, and 5

    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...
  14. Re: The mandolin in Portugal (ca. 1770-1830)

    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...
  15. The mandolin in Portugal (ca. 1770-1830)

    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...
  16. André Herteux, "Connected": United Mandolin & Guitar Orchestra

    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,...
  17. Seeking Octave Mandolin Plans and Advice

    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...
  18. Sierra Hull + Sam Bush play baseball + perform "Sugarfoot Rag

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9h6WkEMBmk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9h6WkEMBmk
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    BMO Virtual Ensemble

    Here is one of my compositions performed by the Baltimore mandolin Orchestra


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbr4zcVIM88
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    Re: Recording through the Bach Cello Suites

    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...
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    Re: Recording through the Bach Cello Suites

    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...
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    Music, Always New :-)

    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...
  23. Nickel Creek - When You Come Back Down (posted 2 days ago)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4OOYp-5ic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4OOYp-5ic
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    Re: Peter Ostroushko Passes

    I've very much enjoyed listening to Peter's podcast. I dug up a profile I wrote of him for Mandozine in 1996.
    ...
  25. Newly discovered mandolin and orchestra pieces (Vienna 1820)

    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...
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