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 ...

Tis the season for the giving of gifts. I was thinking about this after a conversation I had with a good friend this week. He mentioned ...

Debby Roe probably didn’t realize that learning to play the dulcimer would draw her into a larger community of like-minded people. After Roe attended a dulcimer festival, her cousin, Joel Miller, ...

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 ...

Leesburg Recreation and Parks Department will sponsor beginner mountain-dulcimer music lessons starting Sept. 29. Classes will include instruction by Jim Lowman and Elaine Reichenbacher, experienced ...

MCALLA, Alabama – The Appalachian dulcimer is an instrument with its roots in the early 19 th century and is still going strong to this day. Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park has been known to ...

When Jim Vander Woude was 15, he built a 12-foot sailboat with his stepdad and stitched the sail with help from his mom. He loved sailing in the handcrafted vessel so much, he "wore it out." After he ...

A classically trained pianist who attended the renowned Juilliard School in New York, Rosamond Campbell admittedly once had a dismissive attitude toward folk and rock music. But in 1977, when ...

With Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown proving to be a hit both at the box office and during awards season, it seems reasonable to assume that Hollywood will now be looking at other legendary ...

SOUTH SHORE Nestled between the Ohio River and U.S. 23 sits a shed producing mountain dulcimers at the hands of Jeff Lambert. “All the sawdust work is done in here,” Lambert said, as he unlocked the ...