Word: mandolin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most performers are on the street to earn their living by collecting contributions. Despite working as a lifeguard three times a week at the Central Square YMCA, Kevin McNamara makes most of his money by playing his guitar, harmonica, and mandolin, shaking his maracas, and stomping on his tambourine in front of hundreds of delighted strangers. How well does he do? "It's very therapeutic," McNamara says. "We save a lot on shrinks...
Kevin McNamara (gultar, harmonica, mandolin, maracas, tambourine, amp) -- McNamara usually is assisted by "Hurricane" Dennis on the bass. They play at Holyoke Center once a week and often near the women's annex at the Coop. They just describe themselves as "fun rock-n-roll." Be careful when you're near them. Kevin likes to have fun with the crowd...
Marcel, the artist, tells Rodolfo, "I'm freezing my nuts off"). By the time Mimi and Rodolfo have fallen into their first-act clinch, as a mandolin plucks away in the twelve-piece theater band, sentimentalists are dabbing at their eyes...
...Here lay the quarters for the servants. . . Back in one corner, a melancholy boy from the south strummed a broken mandolin found in one of the garrets, weaving the futile passions of his country ballads. It was in these parts, too, that the mushrooms were grown, pale and fat as frog bellies, whose caretaker, after a short time shut up underground, turned as cold, as silent, as blind as those delicious fungi the masters were so fond of. One had only to venture a short distance, lamp in hand, beyond where last year's straw ticks lay rotting...
...side, Wendy Smith plays a mandolin with a country band called Blue Velvet. His friend Donald Clay, a Ford worker in Ypsilanti, Mich., also has a band, North Country Grass. "We was raised up together," says Wendy. "There was only one well on Ranger Ridge, and his daddy had it, and we carried water from...