So you love old-time music but you’re not quite ready for tear it up, bust down tempo? Have we got the thing for you! Announcing the inaugural OFC Monthly Old-Time Music Slow Jam. Learn new tunes! Make new friends! Perfect your hot licks! Bring your fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar or whatever to the Ottawa Folklore Centre on Friday, May 3rd from 7-9 pm. OFC banjo teacher Paul Hornbeck will lead the group in an evening of old-time favorites, played at a moderate pace.

From now until St. Patrick’s Day, we’ll be putting Waltons Bodhrans, Mandolins, Tin Whistles, Green, White, & Orange ukuleles and Irish Themed Books on sale! For more info on these items, please visit our e-store.

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Whether you’re at a jam session, kitchen ceilidh or an old timey bluegrass session the Washburn M1S Mandolin is a perfect addition in your musical arsenal.

The Eastman MD505 A-Style Mandolin is handbuilt using traditional materials and “Old World” craftmanship. It features a solid spruce top, solid maple back & sides and F-holes for warm, ringing tones.

Arguably one of the East Coast’s top master fiddlers, Gordon Stobbe stopped in for a visit  to give some advice about approaching the mandolin from a violinist, guitarist, or beginner point of view. The instrument that Gordon is playing is a Breedlove Mandolin. To find out about ‘Of Course You Can Play the Fiddle’ head here. [...]