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wo by Three in Anza Borrego, by Joseph Michaels, is a suite of (mostly) bluegrass music composed and arranged for mandolin orchestra, two guitars, and contrabass. Two of the songs were written for the violin, “Rub-a dub Scrubjay” and “Quail Waddle,” when he was visiting the Anza Borrego desert in Southern California in the summer of 2021. “Raymond’s Song” is an arrangement of a melody written by his uncle, Bob Pryor, in 1998. The first and last movements were added in 2022 to fill out the suite. … Continue reading
Organized in 1988 the Louisville Mandolin Orchestra offers Louisville-area musicians an opportunity to participate in an orchestral ensemble of plucked string instruments, similar to the instrumentation of a traditional string
Continue readingA Plucked String Ensemble of Mandolins, Mandolas, Mandocellos, Guitars and Bass

