by Jacky Walls | Nov 12, 2024 | News
A Trip to Italy 2024 Five members of the Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra (FFMO) and two partners made the trip to the Le Marche region of Italy in October 2024 to meet up with members of the German Mandolin Orchestra ‘Wanderclub Dudenhofen’ for a short tour and...
by Jacky Walls | May 27, 2024 | News
Our recent Brighton Fringe concert was videoed by William Ranieri. Some of the material is now on YouTube and there is a playlist...
by Jacky Walls | Feb 14, 2024 | News
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of David Hopper in January and he will be greatly missed by us all at FFMO. David grew up in Hove, and has always lived in Brighton & Hove, most recently in West Dene. David had three sisters Jeanette, Josie...
by Jacky Walls | Sep 5, 2023 | News
MANDOLIN WORKSHOP Chris Acquavella Masterclass comes to Town Many of us have admired the virtuoso playing of American mandolin player Chris Acquavella, so the chance of a masterclass with such a world class player, teacher and composer proved an enticing...
by Jacky Walls | Dec 19, 2020 | News
Along with just about everyone else, the Orchestra activities in 2020 have been seriously hampered by the Covid19 pandemic. All our concerts were cancelled along with most of our rehearsals. We have managed just a few socially distanced physical get togethers when we...
by Jacky Walls | Nov 20, 2019 | News
2019 – A Busy Year The year started with the airing of our performance of ‘the other ocean’ on BBC Radio 3 in January. We were proud of this as the project had been a challenging undertaking for the Making Music Adopt a Composer scheme and was a...
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