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John Sheahan and the late Barney McKenna, respectively fiddle player and tenor banjo player with the Dubliners, are also accomplished Irish mandolin players. The instruments used are either flat-backed, oval hole examples as described above (made by UK luthier Roger Bucknall of Fylde Guitars), or carved-top, oval hole instruments with an arched ...
This is a list of mandolinists, people who have specifically furthered the mandolin by composing for it, by playing it, or by teaching it. They are identified by their affiliation to the instrument. They are identified by their affiliation to the instrument.
Stephens was born in Bickley, Kent, and educated at James Allen's Girls' School and Haileybury and began playing the mandolin at the age of seven, inspired by her father, who had played the instrument during the Second World War. [2] She was the first graduate in the instrument from Trinity College of Music in London. [3]
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Sierra Hull was born and raised in Byrdstown, Tennessee and attended Pickett County High School before accepting a Presidential Scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music. [11] Hull began playing the mandolin at the age of eight and put out the album Angel Mountain at 10. She was soon playing jam sessions with other musicians in her ...
Starting composing and playing aged 3. [29] Sugar Chile Robinson: 1938 Jazz 7 At age 7, Sugar Chile played to large audiences along stars such as Lionel Hampton. [30] Camille Saint-Saëns: 1835 Piano 5 Gave his first public recital at age five Ernest Schelling: 1876 Piano, Composer 4 Debut at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Blue Night Express band lasted for nearly seven years and Sharon played with the band from age nine to sixteen. Eventually, the Erwin sisters teamed up with Robin Lynn Macy and Laura Lynch, two women they had met over the years, forming the first lineup of a new band playing predominantly bluegrass, named the Dixie Chicks. Sharon and Troy ...