Traditional music lovers will converge at the Midland County Fairgrounds this weekend for the 16th annual Midland Dulcimer Festival. "If you like traditional music, if you like dulcimer music, it is a ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The list of qualifications for playing the mountain dulcimer is extremely short. In fact, there are none. Absolutely anyone can play the instrument, which is also called the ...

TAHLEQUAH -- Every year in May, the folks in Coshocton, Ohio, hold their "Dulcimer Days" celebration, dedicated to the stringed instrument best known for its use in Appalachian folk music. Strangely ...

WINTER HAVEN | When Janet Howard heard the hammered dulcimer for the first time about two years ago at a talent show, she knew she had to learn more. At first it sounded kind of like a piano, but as ...

Staff photo by Doug Strickland Musician Dan Landrum plays the hammer dulcimer on a rock in Suck Creek on Friday, June 12, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. The hammer dulcimer is a precursor instrument to ...

Mountain dulcimer musician Heidi Muller performs with multi-instrumentalist Bob Webb at this year's Colorado Dulcimer Festival. This two-day gathering of dulcimer players and enthusiasts includes ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Hammered dulcimer player Keith Prairie will perform at the Oasis of Music ...

Jean Ritchie, a daughter of Eastern Kentucky and "The Mother of Folk," who introduced mountain dulcimer music to the outside world, died Monday at her home in Berea. She was 92. In a performing career ...

Bill Spence --a master of the hammered dulcimer, a fixture in traditional music circles and husband of founding Old Songs director Andy Spence – died on Thursday. He was 78. On Friday, many in the ...