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Alan Bond's Berkeley Mandolins,the home of the Dark Hollow Bluegrass Band, Mandolin Museum, Ukulele Museum and more!

Dark Hollow Shows:

1st Thursday night of every month at the
Atlas Café
Thurs., Sept 4, 2008
8:00 to 10:00 pm
3049 20th St. @ Alabama in San Francisco
(415) 648-1047
http://www.atlascafe.net

Brown Barn Festival
Sept 5-7, 2008 http://pleasantvalleymusic.com/BrownBarn

Backyard Party Boys
Shows:

CD Release Partys

Atlas Café
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
8:00 to 10:00 pm
3049 20th St. Alabama in San Francisco
(415) 648-1047
http://www.atlascafe.net

BURGERS, BEER & BLUEGRASS
Saturday, Aug 30, 2008
The Music Store, 66 West Portal, SF
1pm / FREE / $5 gets you a hot burger or
hot dog & an ice-cold beer!
www.ShelbyAshPresents.net

Welcome to Alan Bond's web pages

Some of you know that my old Stan Miller mandolin was stolen in 2006. Well Stan dropped off a new mandolin for me Monday (April, 16, 2007). Check out this picture.

The Great Pick Off begins with Wegen M150 versus Mandolin.com, Mandolin Pick. Read the Results of my extensive test.

New to my web site is the Review page. Also see the Backyard Party Boys new web pages.

Find the latest information about the thriving San Francisco Bluegrass community right here on my web site. See where Dark Hollow is playing and check-out the links to other local bluegrass and old-time bands.

See Alan Bond playing Mandolin with Dan Hicks!

Read the Bluegrass Breakdown Article by Elaine Miller Bond
Dark Hollow lights a spark in San Francisco and beyond

Here's the hand-out for the Mandolin Workshop I gave at the Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival ~ June 14, 2002.

On Alan Bond's Berkeley Mandolins I put various bits of interest to mandolin players. Hot rumors, links and articles I've written about mandolins or mandolin playing. See Bill Monroe's Mandolins and the Matchstick Mandolin Man.

The museum pages have many pictures I've collected of mandolins, ukuleles and related instruments. I hope you enjoy browsing through them.

There is a new section about my favorite mandolin maker Stan Miller. I play a Stan Miller mandolin and I'm hoping to locate some of the thirty mandolins he has made.

Feel free to learn from the Ukecat Ukulele Method, a book written by Elaine and myself. The method is based on three chord shapes and how they are used up and down the ukulele neck.

If you explore a little deeper you'll find many hidden treasures among these pages. There is no store and not much you can buy, you won't get cookies sent to your computer or any weird tracking of your activities from this web site. I'll update and change things when I can so you never know what you'll find here.

I hope you have a pleasant experience and that these web pages enrich your life.

Thanks, Alan

This website is created and maintained by Alan Bond, a mandolin, mandola, ukulele, guitar, fiddle, didgeridoo player and graphic designer, who was born in the Davis, California and migrated to Berkeley in 1975 to be closer to music. This website is based in Oakland, CA. If you want to know a little more about Alan go to My Mandos page.
E-Mail:
alanmbond@comcast.net