Mr. Sun, “A Little Heart’s Ease”
Mr. Sun is Peghead Nation mandolin instructor Joe Walsh, Darol Anger, Grant Gordy, and Ethan Jodziewicz. Here they are playing one of Joe's new compositions.
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Peghead Nation mandolin instructor Joe Walsh is part of the band Mr. Sun with Darol Anger on fiddle, Grant Gordy on guitar, and Ethan Jodziewicz on acoustic bass. Here they are playing one of Joe’s tunes, “A Little Heart’s Ease.” This artful video is a collaboration between the FreshGrass Festival, MassMoCA, and the Traveling Salt Stage.
You can learn to play mandolin from Joe in his Peghead Nation course, The Advancing Mandolinist.
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