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I have been enjoying the new Sam 'n Ash CD immensely so I searched Ashely Broder on Apple music and found this delightful album, Partita Americana, that came out in 2019. This YouTube video should...

The fiddler is Rhys Jones (not David) and on his recording Starry Crown. I would guess he wrote the tune but I don’t own that recording. Did you find it on YouTube?


https://youtu.be/Q9xymWI7wgY

Hi all,

I just wanted to share a very happy story with you, and it's really only happy because of the help of this wonderful community here on Mandolin Cafe!

Earlier last year our shop was...

This just announced.

Bernie, ya got me to thinking. I've done pretty much the same thing with a chord chart for M'cello and M'dola except I incorporated the shapes for Mando as well. The black labels at the top of each...

I invite my bass clef buddies to join CMSA and register for the Convention in the Clouds, November 13-15. Along with numerous mandolin centered workshops, concerts and meet-ups, we will have liuto...

This is a great album that deserves some attention!

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A new audio file has been added to the Mandolin Cafe MP3 page and podcast.

Song title: Omega
By: Kat Wallace and David Sasso
From the recording: Stuff of Stars
Hear it on the Mandolin Cafe MP3...

The Gibson electric on the left is the F-5GEM Electric Mandolin in figured Maple, Sweet Tea.

Semi-hollow F-5G with a powerful custom pickup (their words)
Highly figured Maple adorns the top and...

I met her and talked to her for a few minutes at the Woodstock Invitational Luthier show last fall. We had a nice talk, but she sold the one mandolin she was about to bring there. Too bad. There were...

Quick visit with uber talented archtop guitar builder Maegan Wells who has branched lightly into a few mandolins. This was her first satin finish mandolin and it was a real work of art, as are her...

There was a question about the tailpiece on the new Waterloo mandolins. It's one piece, strings attached, and manufactured by Collings specifically for this model.

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Got to play the gorgeous and killer sounding Weber Yellowstone that will be given away to one lucky person selected at random Sunday at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Great stuff going on at the Weber...

I don't think you can make a fair assessment of the mandolin from a low resolution picture taken at an angle and posted on a website.

Info from Adrian on the new mandolin. I don't state things like this lightly, and you shouldn't listen to me because it's obvious I have a long-term relationship with Northfield both as a friend and...

Had the annual Northfield/Mandolin Cafe taqueria extravaganza and unofficial State of the Mandolin Union meeting last night at a location we refuse to disclose, blew close to $30 on a gut busting...

Folks we ran into today: Dennis from The Mandolin Store, the entire Weber team, Collings team, Schertler (Dave, new U.S. Sales Manager), Christie and Walter Carter, Cathy Pelosi and Tom & Walter...

Couple of surprises to start out the show. Just arrived so haven't had a lot of time to prepare much to report but for starters:

The new Waterloo (from Collings) flat top mandolins to match their...

Just as an aside, I have not been totally impressed by the QC of Avantone stuff. Quite variable... several of their models seem like paint jobs of generic (much cheaper) Chinese mics... The Audio...

Charlie, go beyond the soundtrack - as I mentioned in an earlier post, something to the effect that you will recognize many of the musicians and will have had no idea of their deep Native American...

Not Bluegrass.
Not Old Time.

"Julie": by Rhiannon Giddens of Occaneechi descent

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"Great Grandpa's Banjo": Pura Fe (Tuscarora) & Rhiannon Giddens (Occaneechi)

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I have to disagree with that. Nothing is "dying out" and being replaced by free-form sessions and jams in my part of the USA, anyway. Maybe you're just located too close to Berklee? Too many young,...

Hi Charlie, I haven't read any scholarly studies, but it is a field of interest to me, so I do hope to find time to delve into it more. There is the evidentiary problem of studying a culture that was...

That is by no means typical Metis fiddling, but artfully arranged traditional Metis music, as when a fiddler suffers through the process of playing with a symphony orchestra. (Sigh, it isn't easy for...

They were indeed professional musicians and entertainers. As were the BG boys, F and S, etc.




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"describes the techniques in the book as taken...