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Mandolin kids "tear it up" in Santa Cruz!

This video was taken by John Baxter (of MandoZine) at David Grisman's first Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA in 2004.  It was the Children's Master Class Concert given by Rachel Masat, Bryce Milano, Dominick Leslie, Sarah Jarosz, Jacob Henry Jolliff, Chris Thile, and Sam ('lil Dawg") Grisman on bass.  This song was written that week and performed on Friday night at the final concert which also included the instructor group recitals as well as the a final song, "Shalom Aleichem" performed with over 200 mandolinists under the direction of David Grisman.  A personal aside, just before that song began, John Paul Jones (yes...of Led Zepplin) snuck in the back and grabbed a spot at my music stand and I played next to him in the 3rd mandolin section for the final tune.  That was a treat!  It's amazing what 6 kids (age 12 to 16) can do after spending a week under the direction of Chris Thile (mandolinist of Nickel Creek).  Wow!  The future of the mandolin is here and it sounds great!


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