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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 25—Fairmont State University's Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center will host the Wartz 'n All Dulcimer Jam on ...

Last summer while sheltering-in-place during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the woodworker retreated to his workshop outside his Damascus home to begin a journey of creating the traditional ...

In 1999, two years before the Appalachian Mountain Lap Dulcimer was declared the state instrument of Kentucky, Merwyn Jackson formed the Madison Dulcimers in Richmond. That was 25 years ago, a ...

Some of you are born musicians. Some of us are born to be your audience. Although I tooted the trumpet in my high school band, I was not “gifted.” My playing and performing days were numbered. No ...

Jim Phillips has a passion for creating beautiful wood projects. He was born to Carl and Beatrice Phillips in Richlands, Virginia, in the heart of Appalachian coal country. His parents moved to the ...

Sam Edelston is a man on a mission. The Greenwich musician wants to make dulcimers as popular to the world as guitars, trumpets, pianos, harps, you name it. Dulcimers? ... Yes, dulcimers. Edelston ...