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.
Dorothy Carter
By Danielle de Picciotto | Tiny, frail, with blond hair and green eyes, invariably wearing black dresses, floral patterns, and heavy boots, she seemed so delicate that most people were taken aback when she mentioned adventures with drug-crazied hippies in Mexico or an upcoming tour with her all-girl band the Mediaeval Babes...
Possibility Box: Welcome
By Jerry Rockwell | Introducing a column about chord progressions, modes, and pentatonic scales.
Modes and Tunings: In praise of DAA
By Dan Evans | I was first introduced to the Appalachian dulcimer back in the early 1970s. At that time, DAA was the main tuning used for major scale songs and tunes. Living in England, London’s Roger Nicholson was a major influence when I started out, and Roger used DAA as his major scale tuning...