Word: mandolin
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...Arabic): Musical instrument of Southwest Asia and North Africa resembling a mandolin...
...Connor, who plays the mandolin, notes that bluegrass is one of the few subsets of American folk music that was largely pioneered by one person. Mandolin player Bill Monroe formed the Blue Grass Boys in 1939, and was later joined by banjoist Earl Scruggs and singer/guitarist Lester Flatt. Bluegrass, whose instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass, and fiddle, emerged as a kind of commercially disseminated folk music a decade later. It then began to permeate early rock music in unexpected ways: the offbeat mandolin chop characteristic of bluegrass music, for example, eventually evolved into the snare-drum offbeat...
Other auditions included mandolin improvisation, performances of the students’ original compositions, singing of all sorts, and tap-dancing...
...Lempicka shows a woman in a vivid blue dress playing a mandolin-like instrument...
...musicians from a variety of non-classical backgrounds to explore their unique styles and perform together. HCAMA has now also given musicians the opportunity to perform in the Queen’s Head Pub.“There was not enough focus on bluegrass,” says mandolin player and current HCAMA president Forrest E. O’Connor ’10 when asked why he and Clay D. Miller ’10 founded HCAMA. “There was very little representation here at all.” Since then, O’Connor has expanded...