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ST. LOUIS — Mel Bay Publishing, Inc. has announced the availability of Welsh Airs & Dance Tunes for Mandolin, by Julian Rees. A native of Wales, Julian Rees offers this [...]
ST. LOUIS — Mel Bay Publishing, Inc. has announced the availability of The Joyful Gospel, by Tommy Norris. This collection presents intermediate to advanced settings of 16 traditional gospel tunes [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Adhyâropa Records has announced an October 11 release date and presales availability of Daniel Patrick's new album Around the Clock. The first single, "Blue Sky," featuring Sam [...]
An All-Star Bluegrass Project with Special Guests. BROOKLYN, NY — Shefa Records has announced the long-awaited release of Andy Statman's Bluegrass Tracks. Recorded during a four-day burst of creativity just [...]
KINGSTON, R.I. — Part of this year's University of Rhode Island Guitar Festival is the inclusion of a Course in Mandolin Excellence, designed and led by international concert artist and [...]
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Bare Bones Volume 3, Alternate Takes. The third volume of Bare Bones [...]
SEATTLE, WASH. — As one of the few performing and visual arts colleges in the US, Cornish College of the Arts has been a cornerstone of interdisciplinary collaboration. A hub [...]
TARBES, FRANCE — Marie Burou has announced a September 6 release composed of all works for solo mandolin, entitled New Line. About the project, Burou told us, "The idea of [...]
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. — Acoustic Disc has announced the release of Bare Bones Volume II - Other Tunes & Arrangements, available only as a download. Volume II of Bare [...]
KINGSTON, N.M. — Desert Nights Acoustic Music Camps has announced the details and faculty line-up for this year's Southwest Mandolin Camp, held October 24-27 at the historic Black Range Lodge [...]
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Today’s mandolin song breakdown focuses on another classic, Soldier’s Joy. While this is a bluegrass staple, it’s roots are mostly Scottish from around 1760 or so. Like a lot of [...]
Lately I’ve been working with beginner jammers as an assistant to a Wernick style jam in Seattle. It’s been a real fun few weeks and I’ve found that I learned [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown will be focusing on Jerusalem Ridge. Often this tune is considered a jam buster due to it’s length and complex melody. Aside from having 4 parts, [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown covers the fantastic song Angeline the Baker. I first heard the Crooked Still version of this tune which is a great variation with a few quirks. [...]
Learning mandolin chord shapes can seem tricky but an easy start is to focus on some of the basic chord shapes. In this series, I’m going to cover various chord [...]
Today’s song breakdown covers one of the first bluegrass tunes I can remember learning – There’s More Pretty Girls Than One. The simple melody and chord structure on this tune [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown is Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (which is not the same as “Blackberry Blossom”). The main story of how this song came to be is essentially that general [...]
Continuing the series of “songs I should know, but don’t” today I’m covering the classic mandolin fiddle tune Big Mon by Bill Monroe. This tune is a pretty straight forward, [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown is on the Tim O’Brien tune the High Road. I was introduced to this tune in the Seattle bluegrass jam at Outlander Brewing late 2022 I [...]
Pop quiz hot shot – you’re at a friendly bluegrass jam and the leader just called a song you don’t know and only said “it’s in G” before they started [...]
Octave mando is just a bigger mandolin - all the notes, sheet music, frets, etc... are exactly the same, it's just bigger! Octave mando is great for backing up your [...]
Welcome to my mandolin tutorial for the classic tune "Red Haired Boy"! This tune is part of the music traditions of bluegrass, old-time, Ireland and Scotland. It’s a must [...]
// Magnus interviews mandolin player Patricia Cleary from Seattle in this month's episode. She's a member of Mandolin Secrets Academy and talks about her way of keeping focus and [...]
In this mandolin video lesson, I show you how to play a traditional Swedish fiddle tune called Triolpolska efter Kristian Oskarsson (Triplet polska after Kristian Oskarsson). This dance tune [...]
In this video lesson, I show you how to play a more advanced jazz melody style on the mandolin, combining single-note melody with chord punches. The tune demonstrated is [...]
This week I´m featured on the Mandolin Mondays video series hosted by Mandolin Cafe and David Benedict.Here are their notes:Returning to Mandolin Mondays this week, we're joined by Mandolin [...]
// This month’s episode was recorded in a car, and Magnus and Hayes are having a discussion about: Hayes’s visit to Sweden The Grenna Bluegrass Festival Leading workshops [...]
Play this driving dance tune from the rich tradition of Nordic Folk music, on mandolin and octave mandolin. In this mandolin video lesson, I show you how to play [...]
// In this month’s episode, Magnus interviews one of Europe’s top bluegrass musicians, Ondra Kozák, from the Czech Republic. He plays mandolin, guitar, fiddle/violin, dobro, bass, etc. The episode is [...]
Dive into the world of bluegrass mandolin with my "Adam Steffey Hero Licks" tutorial!Spice up your soloing with a killer lick from the master of bluegrass mandolin. In this lesson, [...]
Looking to play jazz chords on the mandolin and master jazz back-up rhythm? Look no further! In this video lesson, I guide you through the chords and rhythm for [...]
The 12th ARTE International Mandolin Festival & Competition took place in October 2022. Roi Dayan from Israel won the first prize, Marine Moletto from France won the second prize, and [...]
Charlotte Kaiser, a young mandolin player from Germany, has just published her first album “Poems for Mandolin” The album begins with the Concertinho Colibri by Hamilton de Holanda in an arrangement [...]
Carlo Munier is one of the important composers for the mandolin. In his book “Il Nuovo Stile dei Duetti per mandolino solo, Op.278 ” he has studied the possibilities of the [...]
The Mülheimer Zupforchestra is one of the best mandolin orchestras in Germany. The anniversary concert for 40 years has been filmed and is available as a youtube video. The orchestra [...]