Well, I recently tried to upgrade to Wordpress 2.8 and ran into a few snags. I thought I’d share my experience in case it can help someone else!
Upon the manual upload of 2.8 files (follow the instructions here) the site looked great, but I couldn’t login to the back-end.
It turns out that WP 2.8 [...]

Mandolin Masters Mike Compton and Skip Gorman come together for an intimate evening at Acoustic Outfitters. Mike Compton, Grammy award winner and former mandolinist with the Nashville Bluegrass Band,is internationally known as a master of the Monroe style technique.  Skip Gorman, known for both his Monroe mandolin prowess and traditional fiddle playing, joins Mike on [...]

The Seventh Annual March Mandolin Festival will be held March 6-8, 2009, at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, New Hampshire. This year, the festival features Radim Zenkl, Seth Austen, Skip Gorman, and David Surette. This two-day event offers group lessons, and workshops on a variety of topics, jam sessions, and an evening concert. [...]

On Sunday, January 11th, Fiddler Tommy Peoples will come to the J.P.O Hanlons’s Irish Pub, Ayer to teach a Traditional Irish Music Workshop. from 2:30pm to 4pm .The workshop is open to all traditional irish melody instruments.Workshop fee $25. Following the workshop, Tommy will join guitarist Flynn Cohen on stage for the weekly Sunday [...]

Visit this page to learn about the 2008 New Year’s Eve performance of Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascals in Orange, MA.

The Seventh Annual March Mandolin Festival will be held March 6-8, 2009, at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, New Hampshire. This year, the festival features Radim Zenkl, Seth Austen, Skip Gorman, and David Surette. This two-day event offers group lessons, and workshops on a variety of topics, jam sessions, and an evening concert. [...]

Congrats to Jennifer and Said! The Goodtime Stringband had the honor of performing during their wedding ceremony and reception at the Kinney Bungalow, in Naragansett, Rhode Island this past weekend. The minister shared the fantastic story of how this great couple met and came together. Wow! what a great story…
Check out Jennifer and Said’s wedding [...]

I just signed up for camp. Have you? Mike Holmes has (once again) assembled a great line up of mandolinists to perform and instruct at this weekend-long orgy of mando fun. Click here to check out the line-up which includes locals Skip Gorman, David Surette and some cats from the west coast Radim [...]