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 ...

Four years ago, I had never heard of a dulcimer, which is a musical instrument. Now, it seems like everyone plays it, including me. Just recently, I was in the library and ran into a co-worker.

For Vickey Sasser, every dulcimer tells the story of Appalachia and America. The mountain dulcimer, a string instrument popular in American folk music, first appeared in America in the early 19th ...

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, ...

The Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival will be held at the Mountain Arts Community Center March 27-29. Workshops for hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, and voice will take place all day Friday and ...

Musicians with other instruments, including guitar, mandolin, fiddle and cello, join in with dulcimer players at a meeting of the Springfield Dulcimer Club. CONTRIBUTED Musicians with other ...

The 12th annual Pocono Winter Dulcimer Festival will gather dulcimer players from all over the country for two days of workshops and a concert. The popular festival is the creation of Pocono residents ...

A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name. Festival ...

MOUNT DORA — The soft, ethereal sound of the mountain, or Appalachian, dulcimer will lead the way in the 11th Annual Central Florida Dulcimer and Autoharp Festival Friday and Saturday. Held at the ...

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 ...