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On the The Weds Session from April 4th around the 38 minute mark, John Carty is on playing the tenor banjo and it is some fine stuff!

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Clare FM has an online archive of Traditional Music radio shows ... 5 new ones/week. All excellent. Just look for the Trad Archive icon, follow the directions and listen away:

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I would consider him to rank quite high in the upper echelon of Celtic Mandolists ... very near the top. His tenor banjo work is mighty fine as well.

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This is a good, reliable source (site is co-owned by Natalie MacMaster): http://www.capebretonlive.com/store.htm

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I mentioned this guy in the past, but he released an excellent solo recording this year and is well worth checking out:

http://www.myspace.com/107018662


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There is a bit of mandolin on Visten's album ... their fiddler/mandolinist is from the Magdelan Islands, so his playing in an interesting Quebecois/Acadian/Cape Breton hybrid. The rest of the band is...

You can find an "authorized" setting of it here: Cranford Publications - The New Land - Silver Apple.

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A friend is making me a bouzouki-like instrument . . . everything is just about done, but he is unsure about what the string spacing should be like on the bridge. He makes mandolins and guitars, but...

Hello . . . just a little set-up survey . . . I'm curious what other "celtic-style" player on the Board are using. What kind of strings, picks, and mandolin(s) do you use? How would you characterize...

It only makes sense.

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Is it fair to just call it an irish bouzouki and not worry about it?

Padraig, the instrument that I am getting is being made by a local luthier who made my mandolin. Great quality and great prices...

Suits me fine. I should get a pick-up installed as well then . . . and run it through a chorus pedal . . .

I am set to receive a "Guitar-bodied Irish Bouzouki" is a couple of weeks and I am already sick of fumbling for the best name for the instrument. Bazar, bouzar, bouzouki, guitar shaped bouzouki,...

Not only do they not let them call it Scotch, they also about to them calling the company the Glenora Distillery because it sounds scotch...

oh yeah, count me in - just let me know when to send the dough and I'll start watching the mail.

If you can be in the area of the distillery on a Saturday Night, you can take in the West Mabou square dance. If you want to hear Cape Breton fiddling at its best, you should take that in. The...

They aren't too bad. Too bad Iain MacDonald isn't with them anymore. "After hours really let your hair down. After hours when the lights are low. Forget about your troubles and morning blues. Put up...

I know that there are a number of accepted "test pieces" in different styles of Celtic Music ... Colonel Fraser, Gravel Walks etc... Generally, these tunes would be considered show-pieces/test-pieces...

Finally . . . two months of mayhem is about to end . . . time to get back to the eight-string and learn some new tunes. What tunes do you guys have in the hopper?

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Which K & K pick-up would you recommend? Are there any draw-backs to installing internally?

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I anxious to hear this recording by JP Cormier. It is called "Times 8...a mandolin collection and is a mix of traditinal Cape Breton style tunes mixed in with some bluegrass standards etc...

For...

I have relieved myself of my copy of Words and Music . . . but I would guess that it is a Hurdy Gurdy, which Andy does play . . .

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I've heard that this is out. Has anybody seen the dvd or heard the album? . . . . I do have an unhealthy Planxty obsession . . .

I Buried My Wife and Dance on Her Grave - classic wedding material http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Excellent! Thank you.

Matt