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The 6th Annual
Midwest Mandolin Festival
When: Saturday, June
5th, 2010, 11:00 to 6:00
Cost:FREE with park
admission ($5.00/car) Where: Eagle Creek Park Marina, Indianapolis, Indiana (Just west of I-465 on 56th
Street on the west side) Click here for a park map!
The 2010 performers include:
Mandolindy
(Mandolin orchestra)
Deep Fryed Acoustiblasters
(Original, traditional, and progressive Bluegrass)
Johnandrew Bellner (Celtic)
Mando Commandos (Original
boundary-stretching mandolin music)
Central Indiana Folk Music and Mountain Dulcimer Society
(Traditional)
Andra Faye (Blues)
Slates Family Band (Down-home music served up family style)
Mike Butler and the Yank Rachell Tribute Band (Blues)
Mark Kurkowski and Mario Joven (Jazz & Swing)
Rusty Musket (Celtic and Civil War-era music)
Norman Conquest (Mandolin ensemble specializing in ethnic
music)
The final performance of the day will be a
“Mandolin Summit” featuring the day’s top performers. There
will also be instrument displays, jamming and workshops.
Enjoy the day with great acoustic mandolin music,
including old time, traditional, classical, jazz, blues, swing,
and popular music by regional performing artists. There will
also be mandolin workshops, some open stage time and lots of
great music! Bring your lawn chairs for this fun family event!
There will also be free
mandolin workshops. Enjoy seating in
the surrounding grassy area with a picnic lunch. Free with paid
admission to the park. In case of rain all events will be
moved indoors.
For more information visit
The Mandolin Society of Central Indiana's web site at http://www.mandolindy.com
Festivals Past
Here's the
information, some photos and videos from the
past festivals! Enjoy!
The 5th Annual
Midwest Mandolin Festival
In 2009 we featured jazz
mandolinist...
Don
Julin is one of the great jazz mandolin players.
He has received awards at the Walnut Valley Festival in
Winfield, Kansas, attended the Berkley School of Music and was a
featured performer with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra.
Don has also been featured in Mandolin Magazine and Mandolin
Quarterly. Don performed with
guitarist Ron Getz, the guitarist on Don's "Mr Natural" release.
Both fantastic musicians!
Click on Don's banner above for
his web site!
The 2009 performers included:
Mandolindy (Mandolin orchestra)
Johnandrew Bellner (Celtic)
Deep Fryed Acoustiblasters
(Original, traditional, and progressive Bluegrass)
Slates Family Band (Down Home Music
Served up Family Style)
Solly Burton (2007 Winfield
National Mandolin Champion!)
Bud Jeffers, Mike Butler and the Yank Rachell
Tribute Band (Blues)
CIFM&MDS Big Band - Traditional and
old time
Drift - Original fusion music
Norman Conquest - Mandolin ensemble
playing Russian Music
The Sloes - Progressive acoustic
Mandolin Builders so far: Andrew Jerman, Larry Hopkins, Jason
Harshbarger
The 4th Annual (2008)
Midwest Mandolin Festival
The festival was held indoors at
the Earth Discovery Center at Eagle Creek and it was a day of
fantastic mandolin music. Thank you to everyone who made
the festival a huge success! Special thanks to Rich
DelGrosso for sharing his "Blues" mandolin knowledge at the
mandolin
workshop and his performance at the festival. A true
"blues" gentleman! Thank you to Lance from Eastman for
sharing his time and all the beautiful Eastman mandolins and
guitars!
Links to photos and more will be posted here soon!
The following were our performers
in 2008:
Andra Faye - mandolin
player for Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Rich DelGrosso - Blues mandolin player, Mandolin Symposium
Instructor and Handy Award winner
Mandolindy (Mandolin orchestra)
Deep Fryed Acoustiblasters (Bluegrass)
Johnandrew Bellner (Celtic)
Dave Bagdade and Boyd Thaxton (Original boundary-stretching
mandolin music)
Myra Dworski and Jon Hall (Acoustic duets)
Central Indiana Folk Music and Mountain Dulcimer Society
(Traditional)
Hamilton Creek (Bluegrass)
Gordon Bonham and Jim Richter (Blues)
The Sloes (Progressive acoustic)
Slates Family Band (Down home music served up family style)
il Troubadore (Indy's 16th century rock band)
Homer Pass and Mike Butler (Country Blues)
Mark Kurkowski and Mario Joven (Jazz)
For more information visit
The Mandolin Society of Central Indiana's web site at http://www.mandolindy.com
will
be attending the
Midwest Mandolin Festival
Eastman String's National Sales Manager
will be at the festival and we will have a great
display of Eastman mandolins, guitars and more.
We will be offering our best prices of the year at the
festival so if you've been dreaming of that hand
crafted Eastman stop by our display to see and hear
the quality!
New! -
Mandolin Lesson Videos
and our
YouTube Favorites!
Presented by:
The Mandolin Society of Central Indiana Sponsored by: Frank’s
Violins, Mark’s Fret Shop & Weed Patch Music, Sound by: Slates Family Band Sound
Rich
DelGrosso Blues Mandolin Workshop
The following day,
Sunday, June 8, 2008, Rich DelGrosso will be teaching a mandolin
workshop that's part of a
Yank Rachell Tribute Concert also held downtown at the
Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, IN.
Sign up now for Rich DelGrosso's mandolin workshop on Sunday
June 8th, 2008 at will be held from 11:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Spots will be limited so contact Frank's Violins now to reserve
your spot! The "Workshop Band" will be invited to perform
at the James "Yank" Rachell Tribute CD Release Concert which
runs from 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Need additional
information:
MSCI web
site or contact Frank's Violins!
Rich Del Grosso and the blues at David Grisman's
2007
Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA
Special Guest Builders: Will
Kimble, and
Ben
Wilcox (BRW), renowned mandolin builders, are
attending the festival. Come and have a chance to meet and talk
with Will and Ben, and perhaps see some of their recent
mandolins. Will is going to have the
New Millennium Acoustic Design carbon fiber mandolin with
him. The worlds first carbon fiber mandolin!
Thank you to everyone who attended the past
festivals. This event has truly been a "grassroots" effort
since everyone involved has donated their time, effort and
talents since the first festival. At last years FREE
festival we enjoyed over 9 hours of mandolin music, workshops
and mandolin builder displays from
BRW Mandolins and
Will Kimble Mandolins, two of
the finest builders in the midwest. The festival
was a
huge success and we look forward to seeing everyone in June! Here's a
couple of clips from the last two festivals of our friends from
the Dayton Mandolin Orchestra.
Here's a shot of Mark and Mario
at the festival in 2007!
workshop and his performance at the festival. A true
"blues" gentleman! Thank you to Lance from Eastman for
sharing his time and all the beautiful Eastman mandolins and
guitars!
will
be attending the
