R:e working class/labor mandolin orchestras, this is a useful link
https://forward.com/schmooze/199190/a-mandolin-orchestras-labor-roots/
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R:e working class/labor mandolin orchestras, this is a useful link
https://forward.com/schmooze/199190/a-mandolin-orchestras-labor-roots/
I had one of these M-2's bought used in 1981 and it served me well for a few years. Eventually the top began to sink and I gave it away because the price to fix it was more than its value. Mine...
Somebody listed Danny Carnahan, but we forget Paul Kotapish, also of Wake the Dead!
Also Mandolin Cafe's Allen Hopkins. Yes I still have and love my Thistledown cassette!
Steve Goodman -
plays Flatiron octave mandolin on his Affordable Art album he is holding it on album's cover photo and there is a picture of him playing it on the back.
Steve Earle - there is...
good news Larry slowly improving, even playing a little mandolin...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/veteran-rock-guitarist-larry-campbell-174905443.html
refreshing this thread, saddened to hear Larry Campbell is in critical condition with Covid 19, sending up a prayer for him and strength for his wife and singing partner Teresa Williams, while...
Sending my prayers tonight to Larry Campbell, wonderful player of many instruments including mandolin, very ill with Covid 19 and prayers for his wife and musical partner Teresa
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Very nice! Thank you for posting these. Beautiful location to be playing. Excellent playing, the 3rd video seems to catch volume from the tenor the best.
Very sad to hear this news. I got to hear him play some tunes solo on the pipes at a festival. I'm thinking I need to play bit of "Cunla" on my zook tonight.
"The Hound Dog from Harlan" as done by Big Country Bluegrass is a favorite of mine.
needs some work...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Hand-Built-Octophone-in-the-style-of-a-Regal-Octofone-Octave-Mandolin/272955966674?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
so sad to hear this news...one of my favorite videos that I've saved from youtube and listen to frequently was Orrin playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" on the mandola.
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I had these in my Windows photo Gallery saved some time ago, perhaps from Cafe or ebay? Of course the star is positioned differently in relation to the neck and no resonator or...
yes to all the great names mentioned! In the late 70's early 80's I discovered this music and was fortunate to see many of these musicians at the Towne Crier Cafe when it was in Beekman NY. JeffD, I...
I can attest that Randi has one of the really good sounding old Gibsons. It awakened my dormant MAS!
I looked up a couple of the students names on the web just out of curiosity, the ones I looked up were all listed as working architects, on their own, or in other firms, but interestingly M J Kwan...
Usually you see these with the extra back chamber with the round holes with screens a la Blue Comet/Beltone/Medalist but I've seen a couple like this with the screened holes but no extra back, and an...
Your mandola rendition has inspired me to try and learn this. I lost my second wife, who passed 5 years ago after 26 years of happy marriage. We had a shared love of Irish and Scottish traditional...
I seem to remember reading some years back that Phil Cunningham used to play an Irish zouk sometimes when not playing accordion and that he employed DGBE tuning.
Tonight on ebay some lucky individual snagged a lightly used short scale one for $750! If you are a Cafe member and see this, please let us know your opinions on it!
I noticed tonight on ebay that there are listings for instruments that will be auctioned on Feb 25th that include a number of mandolins and tenor guitars, among other fretted instruments, the 271...
Being a genealogy buff, I've always been more interested in acquiring the Gibson A oval I've always wanted, from either my dad's birth year 1916, or my mom's, 1919. I don't think there was such a...
I was very sad when I saw this news on the Cafe yesterday. I've been a fan of Swarb's since the sixties and have seen him play many times over the years with Fairport or with Martin Carthy. I'm a bit...
Very sad to see this news today. Just watched the Center Stage concert, brought back so many great memories of seeing them all live in various venues, and my late wife and I were fortunate to see...
When I was a kid, about 55 years ago, (!) I used to wait for the Christmas Montgomery Wards and Sears catalogs to arrive so I could make my list for Santa and the parents. Along with the usual 8...