The Carolina String Academy is hosting a beginners' workshop on the hammered dulcimer Aug. 1. Ten- to 18-year-olds interested in the stringed musical instrument are invited to attend. With the ...

The Bishop Hill Folk Music Festival will be Saturday June 1, 2024, in the village park in Bishop Hill. Performing will be some of the best-known musicians in Illinois, with styles spanning a wide ...

As Benjamin Barker’s wooden hammers dance across the 125 strings of his dulcimer, classical melodies fill the sanctuary at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church in Simpsonville. At the same time, his ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

Asheville offers a great mix of choices in the coming week. On July 24, catch an 8 p.m. tribute to songwriters Roger Miller and Willie Nelson at the Altamont Theatre. The Carolina Blue Band plays two ...

Celtic music and hammered dulcimer master Maggie Sansone was called to her favorite instrument in Key West, Florida, of all places — a curious spot for the instrument often associated with the ...

The strains of “Amazing Grace” filled the air in a rural southern Virginia Beach church one recent cold night as six mountain dulcimer players gathered to play a few traditional favorites. To make ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

Sam Edelston is a man on a mission. The Greenwich musician wants to make dulcimers as popular to the world as guitars, trumpets, pianos, harps, you name it. Dulcimers? ... Yes, dulcimers. Edelston ...

Joshua Messick wants to make one thing clear: The hammered dulcimer is not an Appalachian instrument. It’s roots, in fact, date back to ancient Persia — what’s now Iran — and records show that such an ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...