Beverly Smith with Mando Mafia (Sunday Contra)

Beverly Smith comes down from Philadelphia to call contras and squares with Mando Mafia: Bill Giltinan (mandolin), Kelly Perdue (mandolin), Pete Marshall (octave mandolin), and Rick Friend (guitar), and maybe Vaughan Mears (bass). Mando Mafia have been delighting audiences with their award winning "wall-of-mandolin" sound, playing concerts, music and art festivals, dances and dance weekends, wine festivals, weddings, parties and other special events in the mid-Atlantic states since 1989. Their recordings have been heard nationwide on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and played on radio shows all over the U.S. and as far away as France and Australia. A "typical" performance might, in addition to old-time music, include calypso, reggae, rockabilly, klezmer and bluegrass, together with the occasional Finnish wedding march, Chilean sikureada, Puerto Rican or Argentine waltz, and Italian polka. Visit their web site at http://www.radix.net/~jmangin/mandomafia/