My son Ryan, a freshman in high school, plays violin and mandolin. He has been playing mandolin in our local session for about a year now, and decided to audition for the high school talent show. He and another teenager who plays fiddle at the session, put together a set of Hardiman the Fiddler/Choice Wife/Dancing Bear. He came home from the audition and said the judges were amazed... I'm sure they probably had never heard those tunes before, especially not that combo. He thinks they got into the show, because he overheard the judges talking about how to mic the mandolin. They will be up against, for the most part, garage rock bands. I think they will do very well.

Alice