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‘fretdreamer’

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https://www.youtube.com/@fretdreamer

Mandolin Project 2026

The “Mandolin Project 2026” aims to create a YouTube playlist of unreleased videos featuring European mandolinists who are actively contributing to the growth of the American (or Celtic) mandolin.

Progressive bluegrass:
discography, trajectories and affinities

Progressive bluegrass began to develop in the 1960s and 1970s. Here we present biographies and trajectories of musicians, based on recordings of albums by permanent groups or ephemeral “circumstantial” reunions of these musicians.

• Bill Keith, the Banjo Master
  • Discography of Bill Keith 1962-1964: when Bill meet Monroe
  • Discography of Bill Keith 1965-1972: Out of Bluegrass? (1/2)
  • Discography of Bill Keith 1965-1972: Out of Bluegrass? (2/2)
  • Discography of Bill Keith 1973 to 1979 from Muleskinner to Keith, Collier (1/2)
  • Discography of Bill Keith 1973 to 1979 from Muleskinner to Keith, Collier (2/2)
  • Bill Keith discography part III: 1980-2008: mature works
• The story of The Blue Velvet Band, from “original” (1969) to “new” (1990-1993), Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, Eric Weisberg, Richard Greene, Kenny Kosek

Musigrass : Folk 1975-1978

• Banjo Paris Session and more albums
  • Banjo Paris Session vol.1 – 1975
• Festivals Folk de Courville-sur-Eure 1976-1978