Mandolin Picks
Walt Kuhlman has always been a fan of mandolin.
The Frederick News-Post Online
FanCulture: The Evolution of Influence is a nearly 30-minute documentary focused on the relationship of brands with their fans.
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In our April Mandolin Sessions finale, we asked a dozen of some of the industry's high profile players about their take on the creative process.
JazzMando.com
On July 17, beloved string band Old Crow Medicine Show will return with their fourth studio album, Carry Me Back, on ATO Records.
American Songwriter
The electric sound of old-time music through four talented, multi-instrumentalists is as unique as it is energizing.
newsleader.com
For anyone looking to gain practical music-business insights from watching How to Grow a Band — a new documentary about the Punch Brothers — the message could be a little depressing.
WCCT
On a December night in 1945, Bill Monroe’s mandolin melded with Earl Scruggs’ banjo-picking style in way that had never been heard before.
The Tennessean
Imagine trying to take a photograph of a flowing stream – a wild-assed, multi-colored, groove-saturated stream – and that’ll give you some idea of what capturing the music of the Everyone Orchestra in a studio setting is like.
Jambands.com
Durant Main Street announced John “Butch” Cusher will be this week’s featured performance for Music on Market Square.
Durant Daily Democrat
For the 13th year, the Collierville Town Square Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Jam has started its outdoor run.
The Commercial Appeal
News & Magazine - Latest articles
Mysterious Neurological Disease Targets Professional Musicians
A neurological disorder called dystonia is estimated to have ended the careers of at least one member of every major American metropolitan orchestra. Dystonia has claimed the livelihoods of musicians across genres including the acclaimed pianist Leon Fleisher of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, former first oboist of the Chicago Symphony Alex Klein, acoustic guitarist Billy McLaughlin, classical guitarist Liona Boyd, keyboard player Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, and others.
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The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) is convening the first-ever Musician's Dystonia Summit, March 9-10, 2012 in New York City. Leading medical experts and musicians will convene to review the latest research, support affected musicians, and chart new directions toward better treatments .
Musician's dystonia is characterized by involuntary, controllable muscle spasms triggered by playing an instrument. The muscles spasms are present only when playing the instrument and disappear at rest. String and piano players experience symptoms in the fingers and hands. Brass and woodwind musicians develop symptoms in the hands or embouchure, the muscles of the face and lips. Musicians may perceive the early symptoms of dystonia as the result of faulty technique or lack of sufficient preparation.
Billy McLaughlin began experiencing symptoms at the height of his career. He began white-knuckling his way through performances, baffled by the realization he could no longer play his own compositions. "I went from intricate and beautifully composed pieces to whatever I could get my fingers to play," he explains. Critics began to speculate that McLaughlin had a substance abuse problem because of his sudden and uncharacteristically "sloppy" playing. He was diagnosed with dystonia in 2001.
Treatment of musician's dystonia is limited, and few musicians are able to regain the technical proficiency achieved prior to the onset of symptoms. However, several musicians have succeeded in reviving their careers by dramatically altering performance techniques over a long period of time.
Recent data estimated that 1-2% of professional musicians are affected by dystonia, but there are likely large numbers of musicians living with symptoms who remain unidentified.
Finnders & Youngberg, Colorado’s premier Americana quintet, will add yet another honor to their impressive resume: they’ve been chosen as an official showcase act for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass conference in Nashville, Tenn., this fall. They are one of just 13 acts invited to perform during the bluegrass industry’s biggest and most important week.
Festival Mozaic has announced its 2012 summer season, which will take place July 12-22 in the most charismatic spaces across California's Central Coast including Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Chapel Hill in wine country, Hearst Castle overlooking the sparkling Pacific Ocean, and Mission San Miguel . The theme, "In The Footsteps of Giants," will showcase a lineage of masterworks which inspired – and were inspired by – phenomenal composers over the ages.
The San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra with singers Susan Gundunas and Twila Ehmcke will be performing one of the gems of the Baroque music era, Stabat Mater, written in 1736 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
The Newport Festivals Foundation has announced the lineup for the 2012 Newport Folk Festival set to take place July 28-29 at Fort Adams State Park.
This album is sophisticated urban pop played with a combination of acoustic instruments usually found in bluegrass bands. Any further references to blugrass is hard to find on the album.
A neurological disorder called dystonia is estimated to have ended the careers of at least one member of every major American metropolitan orchestra. Dystonia has claimed the livelihoods of musicians across genres including the acclaimed pianist Leon Fleisher of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, former first oboist of the Chicago Symphony Alex Klein, acoustic guitarist Billy McLaughlin, classical guitarist Liona Boyd, keyboard player Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, and others.
Radim Zenkl, the Czech-born, California-based magician of the mandolin has been on the road and onstage since he arrived in the USA more than twenty years ago. He recently swung through my hometown of Portland, Oregon and performed his eclectic solo show to a packed house of enthusiastic fans.
Rio Con Brio started out to make one CD. As they recorded tracks, they realized they had two albums on their hands. One is their third choro album, the other is the debut of fado singer Alexandra Coutinho.
Luckily, Alexandra Coutinho and Rio Con Brio decided to make this a stand alone album. The plan was to feature Alexandra Coutinho on some tracks of Rio Con Brio's Caprice.