Event

Mandolin Overload!

Connolly & McNay
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Playing their mandolins together for more than five years, Michael Connolly and Miller McNay have traveled along and across genre boundaries, from bluegrass to old-time to swing. In their inaugural album celebrating the unusual pairing of two mandolins, Connolly and McNay share the sound they've developed as a duo: transparent and open, but warm, varied, and eminently listenable.

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bass+mandolin
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As acoustic musicians go these days, Brian Oberlin (mandolin) and Josh Feinberg (upright bass) have a chemistry like no other. They have only been playing together for 1 year, yet each concert is full of new ideas as they spring and lope through songs, bouncing off each others nuances with a lively thrill. Their repertoire is mostly original music written particularly for mandolin and bass. The few covers they play are arranged tightly for the duo across the genres, new acoustic, swing, jazz, and classical. The sound of mandolin and bass, being at opposite ends of the musical note spectrum, balance and complement each other while Brian digs from his bluegrass and swing background and Josh feeds from his classical, jazz, and Indian music background.