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April 23-25, 2021 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Gilbert Nelson, Abingdon, VA

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April 17, 1981, Additional vocal tracks added to Bill Monroe's recording of My Last Days On Earth.

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On tap from our workshop/camps calendar:

April 23-25, 2021 - Wernick Method Jam Camp with Larry Kernagis, Peoria, IL

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April 16, 1975, Movie Capone released, featuring music by David Grisman.

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Song title: Take Those Lips Away
By: Take Those Lips Away by Wildparty Sheiks from the album N/A
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April 15, 2019, John Duffey's Bluegrass Life published.

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Song title: Its Been A Long Day
By: Its Been A Long Day by The Jaywalkers from the album Weave
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April 18, 2021 - Virtual: Chris Thile Music is Life is Music starts, Brooklyn, NY

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I have a theory that MAS is born of the endorphin hit one experiences acquiring a new mandolin, and the panic inducing thought that we may never...

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Song title: Leroy Jenkins
By: Leroy Jenkins by The Absynth Quintet from the album Iota
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Song title: Sports
By: Joe K. Walsh - Sports from the album Bluegrass and the Abstract Truth
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April 13, 1952, Sam Bush was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Song title: Winderslide
By: Winderslide by Jim Nollman from the album The New Old Time

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Mandolinist Isaac Casas of the Spanish acoustic group WoodSpell joins us for Mandolin Mondays this week to share this compelling original,...

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April 12, 1923, Lloyd Loar signed labels destined for Gibson Master Model instruments.

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April 11, 2010, Sam Bush Interview published on the Mandolin Cafe.

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Song title: Galilee
By: Galilee by Slocan Ramblers from the album Coffee Creek

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April 10, 1923, Lloyd Loar signed labels destined for Gibson Master Model instruments.

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Song title: Philoxenia
By: Philoxenia by New American Mandolin Ensemble from the album Contemporary Works for Plucked Strings
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April 9, 1992, James Tyler and Paul Sparks' The Early Mandolin: The Mandolino and the Neapolitan Mandoline published by Oxford Press.
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Song title: Guige 4 from Bach Cello Suites
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Mishiron

Acoustic A and F style mandolins.

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