Letters to the Editor: Memories of Maddie and DPN
Bill Collins, Ken Longfield, and Paul Crocker share their thoughts, memories, and images.
Collector’s Corner: Memory Garland
By Carilyn Vice | Instead of her regular column, Carilyn Vice has shared a collection of photos in memory of the dulcimer players featured in this issue. Her regular column will return in November.
Editor’s Letter: Madeline MacNeil
By Fiona Potts | Tracing the history and highlights of Dulcimer Players News through the years, featuring the words of Madeline "Maddie" MacNeil in her Editor's Letters.
Curator’s Corner: In the mist of the mountains
By John Hallberg | Illuminating the Appalachian dulcimer's evolution.
TablEdit Tips: Transposing
By Melanie Johnston | Convert music from any key signature into a suitable dulcimer key.
Album Review: Grant Olson’s ‘Solo Dulcimer’
By Karen Mueller | In September 2019, the dulcimer world was taken by storm when 17-year-old Grant Olson won first place in the National Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, Kansas. To many, he seemed to appear out of nowhere, playing stunning arrangements of challenging pieces on a four-string chromatic dulcimer...
Gatherings: Orchestra symposium?
By Judy House | A one-word difference makes for a more focused event. You may have heard me say this before recently, but there’s a new kid on the dulcimer block – the dulcimer orchestra!
Virtual Jams: Buckeye Roadshow
By Buckeye Roadshow (Shari Wolf, Chris Steiner, and Joe Steiner) | Like the phoenix, the Buckeye Roadshow Zoom Jams rose up from the ashes left in the wake of COVID-19 and the death of a dear partner in music, Joyce Harrison...
Gatherings: 50 years of Kindred Gathering
By Ashley Ernst | Looking back on 50 years of the Kindred Gathering, a laid back dulcimer festival on the West Coast. Kindred Gathering 2024 will take place Aug. 2 - 5.
Carter: Childgrowth
Compilation by Fiona Potts | Hammered dulcimer arrangement of the traditional song "Childgrowth" by Dorothy Carter.