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The Berklee College of Music in Boston has announced that Wes Corbett has been hired as a banjo instructor, joining David Hollender in that capacity at the school. Corbett will serve as an Associate Professor on a part time basis, as his schedule allows. It is wonderful news for all lovers of the five string [...]
Mandolin Cafe takes a look at John McGann, one of the less heralded heroes of the 8 string world, in the most recent edition their recurring 10 Questions segment. McGann is a virtuoso on both mandolin and guitar, and has been plying his trade in the New England area for much of the past 30 [...]
Well... it looks like I was wrong last week about there being no archived copy of the 2011 Mandolin Mashup video from the Berklee College of Music. Berklee mandolin instructor John McGann organizes this show each Spring as a showcase for his students, which this year features Sierra Hull in her final Berklee concert before [...]
Speaking of Sierra Hull and Berklee... Here's a video of her helping out a fellow student, Caleb Gilbreath, on his senior recital. Caleb's a drummer, and brought Sierra along to sing Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' 455 Rocket, a hit for Kathy Mattea in 1995. All Berklee students have to perform in such a recital [...]
It's a bird... it's a plane... it's Mandolin Mashup 5! Tonight (May 4) at 8:15 p.m., Berklee College of Music mandolin instructor John McGann will host a concert at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston to celebrate the skill and artistry of the many mandolin students who are currently studying at the school. Berklee has [...]
In the first part of our interview with Sierra Hull earlier this month, she discussed her current studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. One instructor she mentioned was Mark Simos, with whom she is studying lyric writing this semester. Simos is an Assistant professor in the Berklee Songwriting department, whose name should [...]
Have we overdone the Sierra Hull coverage this past few weeks? I hope not, because here is one more piece of Hull news. To help celebrate her new CD, Daybreak, released on Rounder this past Tuesday, Sierra gets to perform tonight at the Berklee Performance Center, on the campus of the Berklee School of Music [...]
The Berklee College of Music in Boston has just announced an exciting new program for banjo players enrolled in their Traditional String principal. Only in the past few years have banjo and mandolin players been accepted at Berklee, at least officially. Infamous Stringdusters banjoist Chris Pandolfi attended the school, but had to sneak through, taking [...]
David Hollender, professor at Berklee College of Music, is set to publish Beyond Bluegrass Banjo, a new book of exercises and improvisational explorations for banjo students at Berklee - or any other banjo player who wants to branch out from Scruggs style. The book will largely mirror one published by Berklee Press in 2010, Bluegrass [...]
The Berklee College of Music in Boston has announced a new Summer String Program to be held next year with Mark O'Connor. It will be held June 27 through July 1, 2011 immediately following the Mark O'Connor String Camp on the campus of ETSU in mid-June. Both camps will offer instruction in a variety of [...]
