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Music theory isn't a set of rules you follow to make music, it's a description of the music, and a language for describing music. The theory comes from the music, not the other way round.

Here is a version of Scottish musician and composer Dougie MacLean's lovely air written for his parents. I have recorded this along with my great friend and playing colleague Janine Ashall who takes...

almost as good as being there,



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxrTWE7v7Dk

Well, that was an excellent experience! Molly and the gang were all excellent - no surprise - but I learned something I couldn't have just from one song heard here and there - she is funny, and smart...

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RIP Dicky Betts.

Still no mando content, this at least shows how widespread his music became.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIuV9TkKRjA&t=4s

Here's a lovely slide that I first learned on the concertina from Cormac Begley. I was messing around with it this morning in a few different keys and discovered I really like it in C minor on the...

another thread showcased these musicians and i found this, lots of mandolin from the getgo-i have no idea if Andrew is playing the same mandolin or if it is a Halsey-gut check says it probably is....

Greeting all! Weber instruments were built in Montana from its start in 1997 to 2012 and then in Bend Oregon from 2012 to present. No imports were ever created under the Weber name. Really...

BTDT, only one suggestion, don't go back to the bride with choices!

Hi everyone!

Isa Burke here, daughter of Mandolin Cafe hero David Surette, to spread the word about this year's David Surette Mandolin Festival! As many of you know, over 20 years ago my dad...

I was going through a few boxes of LPs that I hadn’t looked at for a few decades, and found a real jewel - Back To Back, by Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore. It was unopened for some reason. What an...

For whatever reason, this song popped into my head last night, so I decided to work up a simple little solo arrangement of it on my mandola this morning. As absolutely gorgeous as this melody is, it...

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Another bouzouki heading off to the USA in a couple of days. Video to follow...
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I guess I am putting this in the right section. Here are 3 lamps I made just wanted to see how you folks like them.212827 212828

“Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement”

I must be an arranging master by now! :mandosmiley::mandosmiley::mandosmiley:

I've had a full day with it now and man, what an instrument.

I'm not as storied or worldly as some other Cafe members, and I do not have a myriad of experience with other high end mandolins....

Going to California


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbOoDKhuCF0

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I first recorded by arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's Angel in 2006. This is setting the stage for multiple YouTube lessons on how to play it. It will also be central to some of the instruction I will...

I just happened across this brief youtube video thanks to their autosuggestion function. It's only a couple of years old and includes some interesting information. For one thing, it mentions plans by...

This is an interesting concept that a few people here have alluded to, and so it bears consideration. I have always heard previously that one should start slow and that if you try to speed up before...

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Workshops are open for registration at no charge with support from a grant from the City of Wilsonville. Wilsonville is just south of Portland.

I went to a talk W. Eugene Smith gave in Louisville KY on his documentary photo work of the effects of industrial pollution in Japan just before he died. I had no idea of his connection to the jazz...

This is mainly a guitar page, but he has recorded several very good bluegrass backing tracks.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIkRWuEjn3VK6hdmRrovJdCKX5r7UlEz_&si=v1yDUZHB0CXGOcYE