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Mandolin Orange jumps on new video

Thursday, September 3, 2015 – Acoustic duo Mandolin Orange's animated video for "Jump Mountain Blues" premiered today at Apple Music's Connect and is now available to share/view

Mandolin Orange will hit Europe in October after continuing to tour the U.S. in September and October.

The track is from their new album "Such Jubliee" (Yep Roc Records). Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz enlisted Carrboro, N.C.-based animation/live-action director Abe Spear, who created the stop-motion animated video over the course of two months.

Written over the course of a year spent on the road, "Such Jubliee" was recorded with the duo sitting face-to-face at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, N.C. All 10 songs were written by Marlin.

Tour dates are:
Sept. 7 - Sisters Folk Festival - Sisters, OR
Sept. 18 - Mountain Stage - Grand Marais, MN
Sept. 23 - SPACE - Evanston, IL
Sept. 24 - Boats & Bluegrass Festival - Winona, MN
Sept. 25 - Bluegrass Battles Hunger - St. Joseph, MO
Oct. 9 - Wildflower Pavilion @ Planet Bluegrass - Lyons, CO
Oct. 11 - Austin City Limits Festival - Austin, TX
Oct. 13 - Chickie Wah Wah - New Orleans, LA
Oct. 15 - Melting Point - Athens GA
Oct. 16 - Barking Legs Theatre - Chattanooga, TN
Oct. 17 - The Bijou Theatre - Knoxville, TN
Nov. 6 - Ashland Coffee & Tea - Ashland, VA
Nov. 7 - J.E. Broyhill Civic Center - Lenoir, NC
Nov. 11 - Sunflower - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nov. 13 - Broadcast - Glasgow, Scotland
Nov. 14 - Frodsham Conservative Club - Cheshire, England
Nov. 15 - The Tunnels - Bristol, England
Nov. 16 - Fat Lils - Witney, England
Nov. 17 - Borderline - London, England
Nov. 18 - Merelyn - Nijmegen, Netherlands
Nov. 19 - VANSLAG - Borger, Netherlands
Nov. 21 - Pillow Song Loft - Stans, Switzerland
Nov. 24 - Moskus - Trondheim, Norway
Nov. 25 - Crossroads - Oslo, Norway


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CD review - Tides of a Teardrop Mandolin Orange seldom disappoint. The duo's spare, but fulsome songwriting captures a tone of rich tradition coupled with sensibilities of this century. "Tides Of A Teardrop," the latest release from Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, fulfills the promise of their earlier work. The songs and their singers take center stage. The playing is crisp and evocative, but the core of Mandolin Orange's music is revealed in the lyrics. Marlin captures sadness and longing, but drops ...
CD review - Blindfaller Mandolin Orange's Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin have steadily traveled the country, building a following and delivering a spare, but true, sound with great melodic appeal. Since Mandolin Orange's debut in 2010, the band has done a lot with their bare arrangements. Marlin carries the vocal load, with admirable support from Frantz from time to time. True to their name, they feature Marlin's mandolin, along with banjo and guitar work from both. "Blindfaller" is a beautiful ...


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