TAHLEQUAH -- Every year in May, the folks in Coshocton, Ohio, hold their "Dulcimer Days" celebration, dedicated to the stringed instrument best known for its use in Appalachian folk music. Strangely ...

The annual Gardner Winter Music Festival returned to South Middle School in Morgantown, continuing a tradition that dates back more than four decades. Organizers said the event ...

Marvin Glueck of Oran, Missouri, fell in love with the dulcimer when he first heard one being played in Branson, Missouri, while on his honeymoon in 1980. It was then that he decided to learn to play.

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Hammered dulcimer player Keith Prairie will perform at the Oasis of Music ...

Maylee Samuels has been playing the dulcimer for 30 years, and in advance of a local dulcimer St. Patrick's Day-themed workshop set for March 14, she offered me a lesson. "It's one of those things ...

DANVILLE — Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a group of dulcimer enthusiasts met in the Danville house of one of their members to share their love of the stringed instrument. What originally ...

Mountain dulcimer musician Heidi Muller performs with multi-instrumentalist Bob Webb at this year's Colorado Dulcimer Festival. This two-day gathering of dulcimer players and enthusiasts includes ...

Aug. 16—FAIRMONT — For generations, the Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, the region's iconic musical instrument, has been producing high, lonesome sounds and rollicking rhythms just this side of rock 'n ...

When Helen Bankston first heard the mountain dulcimer playing on the streets of Asheville, North Carolina, she couldn’t have imagined that she and four other Baton Rougeans would form a society ...

Bill Spence --a master of the hammered dulcimer, a fixture in traditional music circles and husband of founding Old Songs director Andy Spence – died on Thursday. He was 78. On Friday, many in the ...