One of the region’s liveliest and most heritage-focused events, the Shoals Dulcimer & Folk Music Festival, took place in Florence earlier this month.

DANVILLE — Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a group of dulcimer enthusiasts met in the Danville house of one of their members to share their love of the stringed instrument. What originally ...

The Kutztown Folk Music Society has announced its 2023 concert season, and it looks like there’ll be something for everyone who enjoys genuine, traditional and original folk music. Presenting a wide ...

SALEM – Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians will host Dave Haas at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Meeting Room of the Dale Shaffer Research Library of the Salem Historical Society, 239 S. Lundy Ave.

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, ...

Crocker, 65, is a classically trained musician who sings with the Piedmont Chamber Singers. She was introduced to the mountain dulcimer as a student in Western Carolina University’s music education ...

Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...

Boone, Hubert. "De Hommel in de Lage Landen." Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments Bulletin 5 (1975): 9-153. Bryan, Charles Faulkner. "The Hammered Dulcimer." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 18 ...

HINDMAN, KY. — The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as ...