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New Tablature & Dulcimer Festival Info Added!

Carl Wagoner has shared his arrangement of Miss Mcleods Reel. You can find the files on the Tablature page or by clicking the links below:

PDF | TEF

The North Georgia Foothills Dulcimer Association is holding an online festival this year. It takes place November 19-21, 2020. You can find more information at the following website: www.ngfda.com/2020virtual

Stay safe and keep on playin’!

Upcoming Online Dulcimer Festivals

The below list are the ones I know about. If you know of others, please send them my way and I will post them here.

STEPHEN SEIFERT PRESENTS LIL REV
September 12 at 6:30pm CST
Music, conversation, playing tips, stories and more.
Reserve your spot at stephenseifert.com

NONSUCH DULCIMER CLUB WORKSHOP WITH KAREN MUELLER
September 19th, 3-6pm BST
Online booking form and complete details by clicking here.

INDIAN SUMMER TUNES – DEBORAH HAMOURIS
September 29, October 6th, 13th and 20th.
4 Tuesday morning classes, 9-10am PDT.
Complete info by clicking here.

BING FUTCH: CHRISTMAS IN THE FALL
October 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th.
A Zoom series of five mountain dulcimer workshops that will help you prepare for the Christmas season. His Patreon patrons attend for free!
Complete info by clicking here.

NUTMEG DULCIMER FESTIVAL
October 2-4, 2020
Featured artists: Jerry Rockwell (mountain) and Joshua Messick (hammered).
Plus an all-star team of workshop leaders.
Complete info at: https://www.nutmegdulcimer.com/

STEPHEN FOSTER DULCIMER RETREAT
November 12-15, 2020.
Workshops, jams, concerts, etc.
Complete info by clicking here.

New Dulcimer Festival Added!

The New Mexico Dulcimer Festival, to be held online, October 17, 2020:

Departing from our normal 2-day in-person festival with a host of different activities, one day online (stay at home) festival including Zoom webcam mountain and hammered dulcimer workshops throughout the day and a prerecorded evening concert by our teaching staff.

Mountain dulcimer:  Lance Frodsham (Vancouver, WA), Butch Ross (Signal Mountain, TN), Irma Reeder (Albuquerque, NM)

Hammered dulcimer: Joshua Messick (Black Mountain, NC), Katie Moritz (Yorkville, IL), Karen Alley (Winnipeg, Canada), Scott Reeder (Albuquerque, NM)

Registration ends October 8.

Visit their site for more information: https://www.nmdulcfest.com/

Mount Dora, FL Festival Update

From Sheryl Chapman:

At the 2019 Central Florida Dulcimer and Autoharp Festival, we, along with many of you, learned that Ruth Harnden and Carolee Stewart would not be continuing their 14-year tradition of producing this festival.  Many of us look forward to this wonderful event each year, so we asked Ruth and Carollee whether we might continue it.  With their consent and at their request, we have given the festival a new name–the Florida Acoustic Winter Gathering.  We have met with the representative of the First Baptist Church in Mount Dora and have reserved the church for Friday and Saturday, 7-8 February 2020!   SO, SAVE THOSE DATES on your calendar!  Ruth has donated the scholarship fund money and other festival materials to our endeavor.  We are hard at work on a website and Facebook pages (coming soon!), and we’ll keep you updated on our progress and introduce you to the festival team through those media soon!

Right now we need a new festival logo to be used on t-shirts, bags, and other festival material.  So the attached flyer is the announcement for our logo contest!   The prize is one free festival registration, so put your creative hats on and send us your entry by 1 June1!  You can e-mail your entry to:  sherylchapman123@gmail.comor snail mail it to 111 Shirley Avenue, Sanford, FL  32771.   Here’s the announcement.  Please feel free to distribute this to everyone in your dulcimer world!