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...second half of the performance began (after Hayek received her award), Sangeet took the stage. With gentle strums of a mandolin and other instruments, this group of five students impressed Hayek so much that she demanded...
...week since just after shopping period. Another piece in the show, concert opener “Homage,” is Bergmann’s tribute to her own mentor and former teacher—Limón himself. “Homage” is performed to the mandolin and consits of two sections: the first is set to Heitor Villa-Lobos and tends to be amorphous and less structured, while the second, accompanied by Bach’s “Concerto in D Minor, ” is more upbeat.The concert will change tone with its second...
...cover, we noticed two things: the attractive, brass-railed bar and the attractive, smiling bartender, who furnished us with an equally attractive beer. Onstage were a bunch of guys who looked like they were having fun: a bluegrass-rock band called Old School Freight Train. The band included a mandolin, fiddle, and banjo in addition to the regular stuff, and they were awesome; it was one of those performances that lasts more than an hour but feels like it’s over in ten minutes. It was grin-inducing and unlike anything we’d heard recently. Even...
Oakland, Md., in the Allegheny Mountains, celebrates the season with the Autumn Glory Festival (Oct. 12 to 16). Traditional Appalachian music is featured with banjo, fiddle and mandolin competitions, along with arts and crafts, parades, a 5-km race and an appearance by Cooter's Garage Band, led by Ben Jones of Dukes of Hazzard fame...
...KIDS TOO! Proceeds from this kids' alternative-rock collection benefit children with neurological disorders, but there are reasons other than charity to buy it. It combines playful tunes first recorded for grownups (Robyn Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains) with new originals and covers (among them a haunting, mandolin-laced My Favorite Things by Winnipeg band Nathan). It's a diverse hipster primer for your favorite alternatoddler...