January Festival Schedule

First friday of each month at 7-10 pm
Held at Rivermont Presbyterian Church in Enon, Virginia
(in Chesterfield County)

Retreat is held at the music building of Sam Houston State University. RV parks are near by. The University Hotel is just across the street and most attendees stay there. There will be mountain duclimer workshops, HD workshops, and Guitar. Open mike, Big Concert, Vendors, and LOTS OF JAMMING.

To receive a flier mailed or emailed, contact Barry and Linda Evans
11129 Highway 90 West
Beaumont, Texas, 77713.

Classes in mountain and hammer dulcimer are offered at every level of experience during this fun-filled week! Jam sessions (24-hour jam room in hotel), open stage, vendor area, Saturday evening concert, lots of classes and concerts.

All classes will be held at the Days Inn in Bardstown, a full-service motel offering meeting rooms for all our classes, concert space, many remodeled lodging rooms, a restaurant, free deluxe continental breakfast, everything under one roof for $49 plus tax per night. Phone: 502.348.9253. You need to make your own reservation.

Info: Kentucky Music, Inc., P.O. Box 86, Bardstown, Kentucky 40004

Held at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park located on YS 41 in White Springs, Florida, just three miles from I-75 Exit 439 and nine miles from I-10 Exit 301.

Cost is $65.00 which includes foth Friday and Saturday night concerts and all workshops. Camping at the center costs $16.00 a day.

There were eight instructors, 20 workshops, 3 concerts, miscellaneous jam sessions and a group of enthusiastic dulcimists, ... squeezed into two magical days in north Florida last year. Come join us!

Hope to see some of you there this year!
diatonically yours,
David Beede

This is a 1 day festival and features workshops from Steve Eulberg and Tim Christoff (Hammered Dulcimer and Scott Odena and Scott Klamm (Mountain Dulcimer). There will be a two hour workshop in the morning, a two hour workshop in the afternoon with our Annual Chili Cook-off sandwiched in between. The two headliners, Steve Eulberg and Scott Odena will perform for your listening pleasure at our Afternoon Concert beginning at 3:30.

The Portland Oregon Old-Time Music Gathering is a grassroots volunteer-run festival that aims to celebrate and enrich the community of traditional Old-Time Appalachian Stringband Musicians. We wish to create an environment where the music is as meaningful as it is when we gather to swap tunes and play in a friend's living room or meet to play at a campsite during a summer festival. As such, we feel that it is important to keep the event non-profit and volunteer run; whether we are taking tickets, sweeping the floor, organizing an event, or playing music for a concert; we are all volunteers contributing to make this thing happen.

Held at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel.
Intensive weekend featuring short two-hour workshops in traditional fiddle styles including Scottish, Cape Breton, Shetland, Irish, French Canadian, Old Time, Cajun, Scandinavian, New England and Swing, plus Dance Band Workshops in several different styles and a class on Backing up Fiddle Tunes for the Hammered Dulcimer. The retreat takes place in a relaxed, retreat setting at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry, WV. Saturday night Contra Dance with TBA calling to the open band with festival staff leading the band as well as jam sessions for all.

Classes are limited, advance registration recommended, "Early Bird" discount on registration.

Held at the Memphis Agricenter International (Wing C)
7777 Walnut Grove Road
Memphis, Tennessee 38120

* The first session, Tunes for the Seasons, will be held Friday evening from 4:30p.m. to 6:00p.m.
* The second session, Minor Tunes, will be on Saturday from 9:00a.m. to 12:00 (noon).
* The third session, Two Part Arrangements, will also be on Saturday from 2:00p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
* Each session will cost $30 or a total of $75 if pre-registered. The concert will cost $10.

Mountain dulcimer jam (indoor facility)
Open to all other instrument players and non-players.
Mistletoe Park has very nice two-bedroom two-bathroom cabins if you have a buddy to share the cost with. There is a Days Inn within eight miles of the park, right at the I20 exit. Of course, several people will be there as early as Friday and stay until Monday. Yearly weekend gathering of mountain dulcimers and related instruments. Non-participant general public are cordially invited to attend Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm to hear music, ask questions about the instruments and try to play if desired. We will have use of an indoor fully enclosed group shelter with restrooms and kitchen area. This means that weather concerns cannot be an excuse to stay away. We have heat and air conditioning as needed. Participants are invited to join in for a potluck dinner Saturday night followed by some individual playing before returning to jamming.

Camping/Cabin info: 706.541.0321 or 800.864.7275.
Directions:
Park is located off GA Hwy 150, 7.9 miles north of I-20, exit #175.
Event info: Rick or Peggy Ertz, 706.855.7041.

Mistletoe State Park Jam Website

Held at the Spring Mill Inn. Jams start around noon, Evening Concert, and Jamming after Concert. Classes for Mountain Dulcimer, and Hammered Dulcimer, Open Stage, Hymn sing. Inn has Dining Room with Buffets, and Menu Dinning. This is a Free Event with Optional Donation for Evening Concerts. This is a nice get away weekend after the Holidays, and is around a 2 hour drive from Elizabethtown. Call the Spring Mill Inn at 812-849-4081 and ask for Tonya to make your reservations.

Held on a 322-acre plot of mined-over phosphate land just south of Homeland, the Alafia River Rendezvous is a 13-day pre-1840 living history encampment where participants/reenactors set up and live in camps portraying and demonstrating life skills of various Early American cultures, i.e.; British, Irish, Scottish, Spanish and Native American.

At last years gathering, over 1000 lodges were set up housing well over 1600 people. Traders Row was host to well over a hundred traders selling everything from kettle corn to tents to firearms and knives, to beads and sarsaparilla to skins and period clothing of all sorts.

Held at Mitchell RV Park in Perrin, Texas (about 60 miles northwest of Ft. Worth) for a four day jam, food fest, and friendship get together. Music, music and more music, indoors if the weather is bad or outside under the trees if it's warm enough.

There are cabins on the grounds and plenty of RV hookups and motels down the road.
Mitchell RV Park Website
Contact Doris and Kevin at 940.798.4615 for more information.

This event takes place in historic Lambuth Inn, at Lake Junaluska, a conference & retreat center near Waynesville and Maggie Valley, North Carolina. It is in the temperate southern mountains of North Carolina, about an hour from Knoxville, Tennessee, and about 3 hours from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lake Junaluska is close to I-40. Events consist of mountain dulcimer Skills Refresher Classes with two instructors, jam sessions, informal staff performances, open stage, dulcimer orchestra, and bus tour of Lake Junaluska. Classes for beginner/novice, intermediate, advanced, and for bowed dulcimer players. Economical accommodations/meal packages at Lambuth Inn. Staff: Bill Taylor, Betty Smith, Kenneth Bloom, Jim Miller, Lois Hornbostel, Dr. Will Peebles.

For participant "reviews" and photos of last winter's event.

Held at the Elizabeth Baptist Church.
Sponsored by the Foothills Dulcimer Club.

Workshops: 9 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Concert: 6:30 p.m.
Free & open to the public

Held at the Stroudsburg Wesleyan Church
A festival of workshops for the Hammered and Mountain Dulcimer. FEATURING: Don Pedi & No Strings Attached Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer Workshops: There will workshops to challenge every level of play and late afternoon jams to apply your latest skills and energize you. MD Faculty: Don Pedi, AJ Bashore, Bonnie Leigh, Nina Zanetti & Beth Lassi, Sam Edelston & Carol Lehrman.
HD Faculty: Randy Marchany, Wes Chappell, Heidi Cerrigione & Sam Edelston.

• Friday evening open jam/open stage for those early arrivers.
• Saturday begins with registration, tuning, coffee, tea, etc., at 8:00am and culminates with an evening concert at 7:00pm.
• Workshops & concert: - $40.00
• Register after Jan. 8th (or at the door) - $45.00
• Workshops Individually: - $15.00 each
• Evening Concert: - $10.00

For a schedule of the day - workshops & levels listed - and other info please see our festival web site. For a registration form please send an e-mail to Norm Williams and we'll e-mail the registration and festival info to you. We have an arrangement with the Best Western Hotel in Stroudsburg for attendees of this event (info will come with registration) who may be traveling some distance. We look forward to seeing many of you there!