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 ...

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 ...

When Helen Bankston first heard the mountain dulcimer playing on the streets of Asheville, North Carolina, she couldn’t have imagined that she and four other Baton Rougeans would form a society ...

MIDLAND -- The Folk Music Society of Midland is hosting the 15th Annual Midland Dulcimer Festival from noon Thursday to noon Sunday at the Midland County Fairgrounds, 6985 Eastman. The Music Society ...

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