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Dulcimer Events

 

Blue River Folk Music Festival, May 16 from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Town and Country Christian Church, 2133 South Tucker Road, Shelbyville IN
Check out the website: www.blueriverfolkfest.com 
Our own Martha Richard will be one of the instructors. 

 

5th Annual Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp - June 3 - 7, 2009 - Kerrville, TX  

  www.hcamp.org Hammer and Mountain Dulcimers will be featured at HCAMP again this year.  Karen Ashbrook and Sue Carpenter will both be returning for their 4th year at the camp. In addition to instrument classes, the Dulcimers play in social orchestras and structured jams with fiddles, banjos, mandolins, dobros, and guitars learning leads, breaks and how dulcimers fit into groups. Evenings are filled with informal playing, faculty concert and lots of fun. HCAMP  will be held again at Schreiner University in Kerrville , Texas .
Kerrville is 60 miles NW of San Antonio and 70 East of Austin , Texas .
Airport shuttle service  from San Antonio is available.
Cost: Tuition $325  Private rooms and meals available on campus. See Web site for lodging and meals details.
Website contains teacher lineup and bios, camp schedule, lodging and meal info, maps, and registration materials. Additional information
  830-459-2120        or               830-896-5711      

 

Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival  - June 5 and 6.


The eighteenth annual Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival will be held "On the
Banks of the Ohio" at English Park, 25 Hanning Lane, Owensboro, KY 42301.
The event consists of FREE concerts on Friday & Saturday evenings and FREE
workshops Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. Concert performers and
workshop instructors are: Kara Barnard, Dave Haas, Stephen Humphries, Ken
Kolodner, Fred Meyer, Jim Miller and Les Gustafson-Zook. Instruction on
various instruments from beginners to advanced, children to adults will be
available. Clogging demonstration and workshop on Saturday. Hand made
crafts, music vendors and food in a park setting add to the festival
atmosphere (bring your lawn chair). We have limited R. V. space (self
contained-reservation required). For overnight lodging call Sleep Inn
270-691-6200, a block of rooms is reserved for our guests, mention
Yellowbanks, Call Early. Visit www.yellowbanksdulcimer.org for more
information and event and workshop schedule.

 

The Coshocton Dulcimer Days cordially invites you to our 35th celebration festival!

This year’s event will take place June 19-21 in downtown Coshocton, Ohio and our headliners will be Susan Trump and the David Lindsey Family. We also have many other wonderful workshop leaders who will be participating. 
As you may know, this dulcimer festival is the second oldest continuously running dulcimer festival in the United States.  We almost lost this festival but a group of us, all musicians, decided it was worth saving. We have the blessing of Roscoe Village and the help of the City of Coshocton and with their help the festival will be bigger and better than ever before!  We are offering 35 workshops for hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, psaltery, fiddle, harmonica, and banjo. We have a new location at the Presbyterian Church in downtown Coshocton, www.presbyteriancoshocton.org, for the workshops, concert, and contests. Vendors will be set up around the courthouse square with continuous music all day at the courthouse gazebo. There are too many positive changes to mention!     The festival is free to the public, and workshops are $15.00 per person, per workshop.     The contest is free to enter and to watch and we expect quality entries this year. The first place price is $200.00, a trophy, and entry into the national championship contest at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas (a $90 value). The runner-up receives $75.00 plus a plaque, and the third place finisher will win $50.00 and a plaque.  Check out www.dulcimerdays.com for more information. We are currently adding to the site every few days, so check back on a regular basis to stay up-to-date!
More information:  Kendra Ward, kward@zoomnet.net, Brett Ridgeway, vendors,  fbridgeway@juno.com, Belinda Williamson, Coshocton Visitors Bureau, coshcvb@coshocton.com

 

Western Carolina University - Mountain Dulcimer Week


June 21-26, 2009 (always the ‘last full week of June')
Cullowhee, North Carolina

 

Melodies and Musings – Our Appalachian Legacy


Come Join the Fun on Beautiful Lake Guntersville
4-day Mountain Dulcimer, Writing and Storytelling Workshops
With a Saturday Mountain Festival, September 23-26, 2009
Please open the link with the workshop/festival brochure,
http://www.mcrsvp.org/M&M%20flyer%20pdf.pdf
print it out, save the date, then email us mcrsvp@mcrsvp.org  to add your name to our list to be notified when registration materials are available on-line about June 1st.

 

 

Dulcimer News

Know anyone who got a dulcimer for Christmas, or has one hanging on the wall for awhile, took lessons years ago and need to refresh their memory? Those are all good reasons to come and join the beginning/novice level mountain dulcimer class at Elizabethtown Community College.
Call to find out class schedules: 270-706-8700 or 877-246-2322, ext. 68700

Online: www.elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/ced  Fax: 270-766-5136

Mail:  ECTC/CEDC, 610 College Street Rd., Elizabethtown, KY  42701

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To purchase McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers locally-----     The Doo Wop Shop Locations are 1587 Bardstown Road in The Highlands, take Watterson Expressway East (I 264 East) to North on Bardstown Road to the Highlands (approx. 3 miles north or I 264). Phone 502-456-5250. Other Louisville Location is on Hurstbourne Pkwy next to Max & Erma's. Take Gene Snyder Frwy. East (I 265 East) to North on Bardstown Road to Hurstbourne Pkwy. East (approx 4 miles east of Bardstown Road). They also have stores in Frankfort, and Lexington.

They have Mc Spadden Mountain Dulcimers they have rented which are cheaper, and they will special order new ones at less than retail prices. www.mcspaddendulcimers.com

FIRST QUALITY MUSIC in Louisville is no longer a McSpadden Dulcimer Dealer.